via phone,what a geek!

our chooks have done us proud this week we have almost a full egg box!it is speckledy,or miss hennypenny who is doing all the laying, but hopefully Sally will soon catch on I think we will have an omelette tonight.
still no internet at the house and now no heating or hot water again…
I bought myself a fancy new phone yesterday but even that doesnt work here. vodafone has 99.7% coverage but I’m not surprised we are the point 3!!

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My failures and Happy Mothers’ Day!

I was left in charge of the animals yesterday, and I managed to fail at most tasks. T is away at a stag-do for an old school friend. All I had to do was walk and feed the dogs, (which I never do because there are 5 and they don’t listen to me) and feed and put the chooks away. It was the chickens who caused the most problem because they wouldn’t go in their house and I eventually tried a sneak-attack tactic and ended up pressing their door hard shut in triumph, with my thumb over the sharp end of a nail.

I should explain that it really is a Hen Fortress, it has nails sticking outwards when the door is closed. I don’t think this is an intentional design feature . It is because the door is also the ramp  and it has some grippy stuff nailed on.

Anyway there was lots of blood and I had to hurriedly remember where I kept the plasters. I’m used to getting pins stuck in me, and recently at college I put my whole weight down on a fat embroidery needle but a nail, I think, hurts more.

It’s mother’s day today, but I can’t get home (home-home) and anyway T managed to sneak in my card and present yesterday (hastily wrapped in a plastic bag)(for environmental reasons?)

Next weekend going to this wedding and it is my nieces first birthday party, and then the Easter holidays!

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