eggregiousness Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 I'm so sorry guys, for going awol. Husband was being utterly vile, angry, shouting and bullying, and I have been ill with flu (on the mend today). It was touch and go for a couple of days . There was a breakthrough last night though when eldest daughter caught him watching the girls from the kitchen window and grinning at their antics. He has had the grace to soften his position and came out today to "help" me check whether the post for the house was concreted in properly. He had me dig it up, dig a new hole and do it again! I humoured him. He did hold the post for me while I poured the concrete in though . Hopefully we are coming out the other side! Thanks for all your wishes, thoughts and concern. I couldn't face typing anything for a while - felt so miserable - but I was reading. You are the best and most supportive bunch of lovely people ever! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClaireG Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 I'm so so glad he sems to be coming around to the idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimnpaula Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 So good to see you back! And great news on the OH front too! Hope you feel better soon from your flu though - I noticed you had to do the digging & concreting P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwing Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 I noticed you had to do the digging & concreting I noticed too Hope you recover from the flu (and hole digging) soon x Chickens rarely fail to win anyone over Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Chick Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 So glad that things are improving Chickens win most men over in the end Give him a week or two and he'll be buying them grapes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craftyhunnypie Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 Arrgggh! He'll soon be caught out with a chook on his knee, whispering sweet nothings to it, whilst hand feeding it sweetcorn! You mark my words! Emma.x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenfreek Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 Awwwww congratulations!! Glad he's coming round to the idea! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poachedegg Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 Good news that he may be softening! Hope you're feeling better soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patricia W Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 Chooks win again!! Tricia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chick wiggle Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 OHhhhh, Phew, phew and phew again!!!! I was so worried. Thank goodness hes coming round. Whats a bit of concreting if it brings about peace. Arnt chickens ace, eventually they will break the hardest hearts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mags Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 oh I am so glad i had wondered if you would need emergency housing for them ! MY dh was not going to help me with the girls but he has started to help out and I have caught him out there just watching them ! hope you feel better Mags Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tara Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 Glad to see you back our girlies are just wonderful mine follow my other half into his garage l just Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken Shirl Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 Hurrah I'm glad all over for you and the chooks Hope you feel better soon Be happy get some chickens Should you get a cockerel next oops sorry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groovychook Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 So pleased that things are a little better... Best wishes for a speedy recovery! xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bettyhen Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 Really glad you`re back, was rather worried that you`d have to part with your girls Hope things carry on improving (even if you do have to do the digging)! Best wishes Sue x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickenNutter Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 Oh thank goodness! I was soooo worried! My OH is not wild about me starting in chickens either, I know how pig-headed they can be. Hopefully he is on the way up. Why are chickens such a girly thing? It is not as if they were chubby and furry like bunnies. Being second cousin to dinosaurs (evolutionarily-speaking) you would think most blokes could admire their finer qualities. I just don't get it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eggregiousness Posted October 7, 2009 Author Share Posted October 7, 2009 Hurrah I'm glad all over for you and the chooks Hope you feel better soon Be happy get some chickens Should you get a cockerel next oops sorry Bad, bad Shirl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plum Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 Phew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docsquid Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 So glad this is working out for you. It's taken ages to persuade my OH to let me have chickens, and many bribes! He keeps saying if they don't lay eggs he's going to eat them I'm hoping he'll end up softening to the idea. We have our cube and first three arriving on 23rd October! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keyhole kate Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 Really glad you`re back, was rather worried that you`d have to part with your girls I was rather worried that you`d have to part with your OH sorry Only kidding of course Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falkor Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 Thanks goodness! I was starting to think that something awful had happened! Great news that you have had a breakthrough and the assitance with the post and concreting can only be a positive sign as that post is there to stay and therefore so are the chooks! Hope you feel better soon! xxx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fur 'n' Feathers Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 So glad to hear from you again. Have been following this post quietly. Fur was happy for me to get our first chickens as part of my 50th Birthday. Now with the 2 newbies he talks of them all as OUR chickens! He's the one that gets up at weekends to let them out too Feathers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chook n Boo Mum Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 I'm so happy to hear you are back on the mend and hopefully breaking through the "anti-ism" of you OH........we realy were all very concerned about you......however distant we are I think you nearly had a contingent of Omleteers raging around Fife & the surrounding areas calling "eggregiousness"...no mean feat either that one !...at the tops of our voices Hope the muscles aren't too sore tomorrow after all the digging Sha x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hilda-and-evadne Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 Husband was being utterly vile, angry, shouting and bullying, and I have been ill with flu (on the mend today). I am glad that you have survived. I read the previous thread. I am quite angry that he put you through this: it is well out of order. I don't have an OH now but yours sounds like mine was - and that "angry, shouting, and bullying" over some chickens is just control-freakery, in my view, and possibly also him wishing that he had thought of it first. Sorry, that is probably no help but I am angry about your being subjected to all that (and the silences) just for some chickens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Chick Posted October 8, 2009 Share Posted October 8, 2009 Eggregiousness - You know I am behind you 100% and am so glad things are improving. However, I think that this bashing of her OH is unfair. I have tried to view things from his side. He had said from post 1 of part 1 that he didn't want chickens, so it must have come as a big shock to him on his return home. He was probably all excited at being re-united with his family, and then realised that a big family decision to keep additional pets had been made in his absence. No wonder he felt angry and bullish, he felt like his manhood had been taken away I would guess. So Omleteers, how about we cut this poor bloke some slack whilst he realises that chickens are actually fab Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
