Simple living in the country - back to basics

rtandon27

Cheery - I hear chicken lockdown will end in a few days!!!

Cheery_Daff

Yep, Tuesday 😊

Sadly too late for Sunshine chicken, who died this afternoon 😕 We took her to the vets last week but they couldn't find anything wrong with her. Had a follow up appointment yesterday which we cancelled earlier in the week as she looked fine, but she took a turn for the worse today. Mr Cheery took her to the vets, but she died on the way home. He's distraught - she died in the travel crate, he didn't manage to get her home to her beaky pals 😕😕😕 Obviously the vet didn't think she was necessarily in imminent danger, she was still pottering and eating at the surgery, but this is going to haunt him for a long time I think 😕

I'm on the way home from the conference now. It's been a good few days, marred by this afternoon's events of course - felt quite powerless stuck over here 😕 But there was no point me going home early - he decided to stick to his plans for the evening so won't be home til well after me anyway. 

I had to choose between going to the loo or catching my train - I chose the train, and annoyingly it's a little local one without a loo on, or any snacks 😠 So I'll be crossing my legs for the next hour and hoping we don't go over too many bumps!

Cheery_Daff

Oh, and the plumber came this morning, but I have no idea whether he's actually fixed the boiler as when I finally spoke to Mr Cheery we were rather occupied with other matters. So all fingers crossed he's fixed it and we can at least have a nice cosy evening, although I'm not holding my breath 🙄

starnac

Oh Cheery. I'm so sorry to hear that! Poor Mr Cheery. I would be distraught too! 

Glad your conference went well though. Hopefully you'll find a loo asap

rtandon27

Oh Cheery so sorry to hear about the chook - fingers crossed the boiler is now working. xx

themadvix

Sorry to hear about poor Sunshine Cheery, and poor Mr Cheery too, that’s horrible 😢

🤞🏻 for the boiler working though and a smooth journey home!

beanielou

themadvix said:

Sorry to hear about poor Sunshine Cheery, and poor Mr Cheery too, that’s horrible 😢

🤞🏻 for the boiler working though and a smooth journey home!

From me too xx

Karmacat

themadvix said:

Sorry to hear about poor Sunshine Cheery, and poor Mr Cheery too, that’s horrible 😢

🤞🏻 for the boiler working though and a smooth journey home!

That sums it up, I'm afraid, how awful for both of you, and for poor Sunshine.

Cheery_Daff

Thank you all xxx Yes, it's awful when you lose one, and this was an awful situation 😕 I'm only sorry I wasn't there too 😕

On a lighter note - the heating does seem to be working! No idea how much that's going to cost us, we can only hope less than a new boiler 🙄

Had an LPG delivery yesterday - we still had about 20% left I think, so it'll only cost £762, at the end of May. There's already £696 in the LPG pot, so I'll just top it up with another £75, and the extra £95 that I would have put in next month can go towards the plumber's bill. 

Hopefully won't need another top up til the autumn now. 

Merlin's_Beard

Poor chicken. Birds are so good at pretending to be not as ill as they really are, and so difficult to know exactly how bad it is sometimes.