Lesley Posted April 19, 2005 Author Share Posted April 19, 2005 Only two and a bit more days Buffie! - glad you made your trip eventually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffie Posted April 19, 2005 Share Posted April 19, 2005 Yes Lesley, It's countdown time! Bx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahJo Posted April 24, 2005 Share Posted April 24, 2005 I learned today .. That if you gamble on a few horse races, and then take the kids out with the grandparents to a horse trials more than likely one of them (kids) will ask which horse is going to win us money today, Mum . Needless to say .. every horse we saw was Hedgehunter, Joes Edge or General Feeling . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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buffie Posted April 24, 2005 Share Posted April 24, 2005 I learnt that chickens, well at least mine harrie and charlie, are fab!!!! I get lots of attention and beaky kisses!! Bx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffie Posted May 11, 2005 Share Posted May 11, 2005 Thought I loved my garden until I got the chickens. Now do love garden still and defend as much as possible but love the girls mean more!! No different to a puppy!! Bx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheilaz Posted May 14, 2005 Share Posted May 14, 2005 Totally agree Buffie! I learned this week; Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Last Sunday we went to the South Suffolk (were you there, Sammi?) Show, (very good if you're looking for a new tractor). One exhibition tent was a poultry club. They had 6 or 7 breeds, including Transylvannian Naked Neck. I thought they were beautiful! Would love some! LSH thought they were really ugly & looked like vultures. (Vultures are beautiful too). Strange looking I'll admit, long, scrawny bare necks. Ahhhh... Also learned that, for the English, an ideal day out includes standing soaking wet in N.East wind & driving rain....watching the jousting! Quite an endurance test just watching. The baddie knight, in red/black charged towards the audience, jumped off his horse, and borrowed the red/black umbrella of a shocked onlooker, rode off & continued battle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffie Posted May 14, 2005 Share Posted May 14, 2005 men, jousting...sounds like a good day out!! BX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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buffie Posted May 14, 2005 Share Posted May 14, 2005 I was a bit rude in thought, did ya see the omlet gang on BBC2 this morning? I am off to bed and will get your lovely responses tomorrow!! Bx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted May 15, 2005 Author Share Posted May 15, 2005 Yesterday we cleared out last years Chard which has kept going all through the winter and the girls love. We gave them a big bunch tied up and kept a big bagful for the next two days as it was too good to waste. What I learned this week is.........Don't give chard/spinach to chickens in the evening! When I let them out this morning I gave them all a cuddle on their way out - I had to grab Lottie as she tried to escape. Didn't she repay me - poo'd all down my top and doesn't it stink I held her away and most of it missed but that little bit that did catch me has been sponged off but the smell is lingering I was surrounded by chickens getting rid of remains of the chard - it made my eyes water! Off to get changed into another top - just to do the gardening in (I tell Jake - 4 - off for using the word stink, but I'm afraid there is no politer way to describe it (and many worse ways!) ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahJo Posted May 23, 2005 Share Posted May 23, 2005 I learned last night not to OVERREACT . Ginger was making a racket ... very unlike her, at about 8.15pm, so I went to look out of the window to see all was ok. Wheres Mrs Snowy . I could not see her ... so rushed out ... Ginger is still flapping about squaking, and no sign of Mrs Snowy. . So I start calling for her ... get inside the gate of the run, nothing. Look over the hedge still calling ... no feathers nothing . Open the eggport .... shes in the eglu roosting . Then the heavens open and the rain comes down like a bucket of water ...... I get soaked and even though relieved, turn around to see Graham wetting himslef with laughter, and calling me Tin-Tin. . He then says ... Ginger was only telling us there was a downpour coming ..... and still cannot resist calling into the distance "Snowy, Snowy .... " with a big grin on his face. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mrs Frugal Posted May 23, 2005 Share Posted May 23, 2005 Oh dear, poor Sarah! Next time she starts making a racket, grab the umbrella just in case ! Things I've learned this week - if I ask LSH loudly enough, he'll take down the bird table on the edge of the chicken run if I insist that I've hit my head on it enough times ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahJo Posted May 23, 2005 Share Posted May 23, 2005 Funny ... does it have to be loudly, AND several times. Yup .. thought so ..... Hope your head feels better, now you are not whacking it on the bird table. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted May 23, 2005 Share Posted May 23, 2005 Thanks Sarah - it's funny that he promised to take it down at the weekend after he hit his head on it!! Shame he forgot ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buffie Posted May 23, 2005 Share Posted May 23, 2005 My girls are out and I will one day learn 'not to panic'. Oh well off to watch chelsea Flower Show and perhaps they can go off to bed!! BX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheilaz Posted May 24, 2005 Share Posted May 24, 2005 Well, I would have done the same, Sarah. After all, the girls did have an urgent message for you, so your instincts were right. Also, Shep would have done the same as Graham! I've twice heard those really urgent calls. First time, dashed out, never heard anything like it, certain it must be fox alert. The girls, who are usually side by side all day, were about 10 metres apart. OH said there had been a cat between them so I thought it had been after one. But OH had arrived 1st & said it looked the other way round, they were "crowding" the cat, & seeing it off! Second time, it wasn't the chooks after all, but crows who were circling, then dive-bombing a heron who was sitting on our chimney. The incredible noise continued across the neighbourhood until they'd seen it off! Oh Kate, that does all sound very familiar! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted May 30, 2005 Author Share Posted May 30, 2005 Thanks Sarah - it's funny that he promised to take it down at the weekend after he hit his head on it!! Shame he forgot ! I was going to say - do like I do and take it down yourself - but it's much funnier now! - there must have been a method in your madness Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 Things I've learned this week...................... Don't try to grab grass clippings for the hens while LSH is using garden shears - a full set of fingers is better than none ! OK, don't worry, I didn't lose any and a plaster will suffice but I won't be doing that again in a hurry !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahJo Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 Oh Kate ... hope the fingers are ok .. I nearly lost my head ... Don't clip a hedge at a lower point than hubby, who is using petrol hedge cutters .... unless you really want to lose your head, the day before your 7th wedding anniversary!. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 Sarah, I thought I lived dangerously - glad you survived with head intact! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahJo Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 Sarah, I thought I lived dangerously .. think "stupidly" may be more appropriate Kate .... I have a tendancy of "no patience", and instead of waiting, want to just get on with the job, rather than risk assess and be physically intact . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trish Posted June 5, 2005 Share Posted June 5, 2005 Ocu Kate and Sarah, I suppose there are some advantages to usually gardening alone. Hubby is getting better but unless pushed still feels that gardening should always involve concrete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cate in NZ Posted June 10, 2005 Share Posted June 10, 2005 Things I've learned this week .......don't line the nesting box with sawdust ..... After Sage died I fretted that hay (which I used in the nesting box) might be a problem, because I read somewhere about aspergillus (or something like that ), so I left it bare, and they shunned it, started laying on roosting bars or under shrubs. Last week I relented, tried pet safe sawdust. that I usually use for Marble's cage, and Onion returned to her nesting box for the daily egg laying session. Brie prefers to play hide and seek with her eggs so I'm trying to coax her back, unsuccessfully I may add Anyway, just given the Eglu it's weekly scrub and hose down, and that dratted sawdust got everywhere, blocking up every nook and cranny. It's just taken me twice as long to clean it because of gouging out chunks of pooed on sawdust. Lovely I think we're back to hay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
