Mamade marmalade - what is nice to add to it ?

[BeckyBoo]

Omlet day today! Cube day today! Chicken day today! Yipee!!! OH is being sent out for a sauna with his mate, only to return and find a garden with subtly shaded orange cube and 5 chooks!! (and hopefully not a soggy from all the rain, harassed from trying to build a suitable chook area, stressy-headed wife trying to control three exciteable children (and me!), and a ferocious tabby cat! )

 

HEE HEE HEE HEE!!! Not at ALL excited!!

[Couperwife]

yipppppeeeeeeee

 

hope it all goes well, and remember, we want photos as soon as possible

 

have a lovely day

[Egluntyne]

How exciting for you!

 

We need all the details such as your OH's reaction later!

 

(And pictures of course.....not that we are nosey or anything!)

[Jules.]

Great!

[Jill]

Hope all goes well today. I am excited now and my cube is not coming til Tuesday! Looking forward to hearing how it is all received by OH.

[Guest]

 

Can't wait to see the photos!

[ubereglu]

Have fun today! I hope the new hens will love it.

[Guest]

Fantastic news

 

Loads of photos please

[BeckyBoo]

They're here!!! OMG they are just fantastic! I really need to put some piccys on, if anyone can give me an idiots guide I'll put them on and introduce our girls!

 

OH was sent out for his sauna, I quickly got an area ready with wood chip stuff and got THOROUGHLY soaked in the torrential rain. Roy arrived from Eglu just after 11 and whilst he got stuck in to the building I legged it out with middle child to collect our other three chooks from Mr Perfect Poultry.

Then he clipped their wings whilst I held them, then I clipped one, during all of this my three children were basically leaping up and down with excitement! Then they were all put in the Eglu (the chooks not the kids ) and we've basically been out there watching them ever since!

 

OH came home and absolutely loves it - even the bright orange cube!

We've all been stood with stupid grins on our faces since they got here. We've had four visitors already, I think I've got trenchfoot from having soaking wet feet since 10.15 this morning, the children even ate their lunch round the cube, I'm due to go to work in an hour and instead of tidying my pigsty house and getting ready I'm on here! I can see that chickens are going to be a great diversion from everything that should be done!!!

 

So we are now all chooked up, names chosen, little bit of pecking going on, my garden is almost slug free already where the kids have fed them thru the bars and the girls have devoured them!

I'm cream crackered now - how am I going to work til 2am without falling asleep? This has been like the best Christmas!

 

Mrs Bertie

plus Kev (OH) Georgia Lauren and Harrison

also Frank the ferocious tabby tiger killer cat

and now....

Rainbow - Black Rock

Loveheart - Gingernut Ranger (can you tell the children chose them?)

Duck - Mrs Pepperpot (all birds are ducks to smallest boy)

Bertie Bird - Exchequer Leghorn

Lulu, short for Tallulah - Maran

[BeckyBoo]

Have no idea how to put pictures here but have managed to create an album if anyone fancies a nosey!

[Couperman]

Horray for you!!

 

Posting photos is dead easy if you use Photobucket.com

You need to register, upload images from your machine,

It then displays several little links under the photo, click on the one that says 'image to post on forum' or words to that effect, and 'paste' the link directly in the message. Once you submit it should appear in the message.

 

Hope that makes sense.

 

You are brave doing the wing clipping, we keep chickening out (pardon the pun)

 

Kev.

[Gallina]

Here's Mrs Bertie's album, although I must agree that Photobucket is a lot easier.

 

I do like orange. And your garden. The cube fits in so well.

[theherd123]

Brilliant! Totally brilliant!

 

Im really pleased for you - all the planning has worked out just great.

 

What a fab present

[Snowy]

Well done Mrs Bertie! Everything looks fabulous, bet your OH was stunned to see all your hard work. How did you manage to keep it secret from him!! Your chickens look lovely, and that orange cube - well, I think orange just has to be THE colour for cubes doesn't it?

[Kathy C]

Congratulations Mrs Bertie. I am glad it all went well. What a surprise for Mr B, he must feel very special.

[MisHapp]

How cool is that Orange Cube!!! Fabtabulous!

 

I sooooo, want a cube.

[Egluntyne]

Lovely pictures. Roy brought my first Eglu.

[AnnieP]

Well done Mrs Bertie, and CONGRATULATIONS!!!

[Jill]

Love your garden and I think the orange looks great. So pleased it has all gone so well. They are total time wasters but much more fun than housework

[Laura & CTB]

Everything looks sooooo fab

Have a great time

[Couperman]

Many Congrats Mrs Bertie,

 

Your Cube looks fantastic!, I Love your garden too and your hens.

Have fun!

 

Kev.

[feemcg]

Lovely pics Mrs. B - welcome to the 'orange cube club' .

[ali-s]

Congratulations Mrs Bertie. The orange cube looks cool