Poor Mum

Poor Mum (that’s her in the middle!) The chicks are now as big as she is, but still they want her to keep them warm at night – you should have heard the cheeping as they tried to get her to huddle them up!

Today

• get up (late) (very)
• go downstairs in PJ’s, dressing gown and wrapped in a handknit blanket….
• let chicks out
• replace chicks water cos it’s frozen
• get muddy slippers……
• trip over dog…..
• give dog biscuit filled bone which she slobbers all over the floor….
• . make very strong coffee…….
• log in to work to find many many invoices needing doing……
• do them still in PJ’s….
• make more strong coffee…
• get dressed……. now am missing blanket….
• go back and get blanket and wrap round over clothes….
• sun is out momentarily so rush out, clean up after dog, clean out chicks, and grown up hens, feed all, … sun gone in…
• *thinks* might as well get knitting out and light a fire!

 

How’s your day going?

Trying Windows Live writer

Just trying something out to see if it’s better than bloggers composer – not that I think there’s anything wrong with blogger, but I like to try new stuff.

It has some interesting features and make make formatting posts easier, including a nice and easy table feature which is how I did the photo above.

 

Hmmmm, we’ll see how it looks on the blog.!

Sundays...............

 

See, told you we'd be handsome!

We are 5 weeks and three days old today.  Mum has taken loads of photos but we move too fast for her camera and she says they're all blurry.  Mum has been lovely to us this week and bought us and our big sisters a whole bale of straw which she put in our runs.  We love it so much and after she has let us out in the morning and we've had breakfast (porridge if we're very lucky) we snuggle down in the straw and sun-bathe.  Mum says we're beginning to look like real grown up chickens now. She says we're pretty but we knew that already!  Daddy put us up a proper perch this week too.  We already knew how to perch cos we've been practising in the house and keep flying out at Mum when she lifts the lid -(it makes us giggle)  It's nice to have something high up to sit on, it makes us higher than that soppy dog, so we can look down on her!

My My haven't we grown

Today we are 4 weeks and 3 days old.  We're not too handsome yet, but we think we will be! ;-)

Today I ..........

Patchworked (is patchwork a verb??) and Quilted!!!

 

It was a kit bought a year or so ago from an EBay shop - Material Pleasures.  I haven't really done it total justice, as I have discovered I don't really have the patience for patchworking.!! so there are a few crooked lines. But it'll make a lovely cushion cover, and it's all quilted too so will be extra comfy!

It's funny really, I have no patience issues with knitting, I will knit jumpers and long coats with no problems whatsoever, but once I get a sewing machine out I expect to have a finished object in 2 hours or less!!! Ah well it's good to know these things about ourselves I guess.

  

November already???

How did that happen?  Seriously I know they say life travels faster as you get older, but I swear it was only 2 weeks ago that it was last Christmas??  (Luckily the magic of re-reading my blog prooves this is not the case and in fact I have had a good and quite full year!)

So just quickly.  Flicca  is almost finished (you didn't know I was making that did you!)  I changed the very top from 1x1 ribbing to stocking stitch as I knew I wouldn't like the rib at the top, and it is gorgeous! Made in Jaeger Extra fine merino chunky.   I haven't done the second button band as I haven't managed to find buttons to work on it yet and I want the button holes to be in the right place - and fit!  but it's all done apart from that...... photos as soon as buttons present themselves!  (Do you think if I wait in, they'll just knock on the door and say "Hi, we're the right buttons for your cardi!")

have started a long pullover in some green aran wool/ acrylic mix from a Noro book. I couldn't decide what to make and that yarn has been sat in my stash (which is now somewhat depleted) for sometime since I bought it from Melody, so it sort of decided itself.

Chicks are growing great guns and are getting their feathers.  No photos today cos it's a bit nippy to let them out, but sometime this week I'll show you how they've grown.

Spot is adorable as ever, I have taken to lighting a fire in the sitting room over the weekend as it was sooooo cold, and we sat on the floor together all snuggled up (mind you I always ended up furthest from the fire!!)

So there you have it, all is well and snuggley chez noo......... now if we could just slow down time a bit!