Pippi’s pulling up her stripey-socks for the final sprint towards the Good-Life……………

EssexHebridean

ROFL @ KK - wicked Mum!! :rotfl:

Pippi glad to hear you are feeling better, and you were indeed brave taking the bull by the horns with the taxman. Goes to show though that sometimes it's better just to get on with things as they are rarely as bad as you fear they are *going* to be. I need to remember that message myself sometimes! :o

Pocket handkerchief sized bit of garden has now been dug over by the way, and given a second dig this weekend to really turn the soil over. we have LOADS of worms, which is excellent, and in spite of our neglect the soil quality looks amazingly good - our compost is way better than we expected too and as well as having put lots into the pocket handkerchief we still have a bagful to use. MrEH says he reckons we shouldn't put any more into the area we plan to plant veggies into though as we're planning on planting a bit of a mixed bag of stuff, and not everything likes too high quality soil - I can see the sense in this I think, are we right do you think?

Pippilongstocking

Evening all.

Blowing a stinky hoooooly here!

Nowt much to report. Hm tea and boxed up leftovers
Dd had a math prelim today and settled with a movie as a reward

Still feeling a bit stinky - kk laughed about your common toast eating - I'm a similar mummy!!

Xx hope you are all good - a bit more extra work tomorrow and sold more eggs

Off for a catch up in a bit xx

Lemon_Tree

EH fancy coming to our allotment and giving us a hand?

Pippilongstocking

Eh sounds like you've done a lot! OH is right, not everything likes very rich soil - wise man!

LT I'm popping down right now with my spade!!

40sm nice to see you lass!

Sorry not catching up much guys - stinky colds and trying to work don't mix!

Woken up by stinky weather - off to try sleep more x

chevalier

pippi sorry to hear you are still feeling bleugh!

Felt a bit better today (maybe something to do with it being the first day of school:D) then found that my mum had left something sweet out in he pantry and it is crawling with ants
SIGH
still the car passed the equivalent of an MOT so that was good news
chev

Pippilongstocking

Hey Chevrolet I read your post and wanted to give you a huge hug xx

Glad you are feeling premier today. I think when you go off having life adventures it can be hard to make friends etc xx hugs from here xx

Karmacat

Hi Pippi - this is early for you after so much illness! Glad to see you back! Unfortunately, your illness has migrated down south to my house .... sob .... and I was doing so well .... Hope your chickens are okay, anyway. And the work

Catwoman103

As a chicken keeper can you please advise how much work they involve.

I am thinking of getting two this year. I have a very large outdoor rabbot hutch they could live in and I will construct a nice run around it. I leave for work at 6am in the morning and get home at 6pm at night so I will have only a few minutes to spend on them morning and evening but lots of time at the weekend. Am I being impractical. I have to look after two rabbits outside anyway so it's not going outside in the dark that's a problem.

Thanks

Pippilongstocking

Cat woman - no you are not being impractical, I think you'll do just fine and hens are no harder than rabbits!!

Better actually because they give you eggs.

go for it!

Nice to see you on here - hope that helps

I bought chicken keeping for dummies - tells me everything I need to know. But the Internet is also a marvel.

Good luck

Karmacat

I love it that there's a book called Chicken Keeping for Dummies

Hope you're doing a bit better today, Pippi.