Eager Elephant's Effective Everyday Excursion ...

I have been PADing for the last few days and intend to keep it up.

I rung the garage and got no answer and was too busy to call back so rung them today and they came and collected it tonight


Did some more work up the field, 2 pens are done and look lovely, 1 gate is done with 1 more to go and then we need to re-roof the old chicken hut with corrugated so we can catch the water and store it in water butts.

Had my friend round today with her 2 kids and her sister's 2 children - we walked up to the field, they loved seeing all the animals.

Have also taken son to Osteopath - this is his 5th treatment in the last few months, he has had issues before and usually a session puts him right but this time it is quite bad and will take time to sort out. So that was another £42 spent.


Puppy also had her puppy class tonight so that was £3.50.

It's been a spendy day.

Tomorrow is a part paperwork and part field day - the weather has been so lovely and we will be back at work soon so we need to get working while we can.

DS has hyper-mobility and every so often needs a course of osteopathy to get him right again - now he has left school he does not do much sport and this makes it worse. I really must [strike]force[/strike] encourage him to start swimming a couple of times a week.


DD has seen a physio before when she hurt her knee on a trampoline and all the hospital cared about was that it was not broken and not about the long term damage.


People at work think we are mad to pay out for things you can get on the NHS - I just tell them that some things are worth more than money and anyway the waiting lists and the jumping through hoops take too long.


We had another osteopathy session this week just gone and he has a gap of 3 weeks until the next one as he is nearly sorted.
The osteopath has written to the GP to ask about DS having an x-ray as his spine is missing some pointy bits (clearly I am no medical person) and he is not sure of the cause and wants it checked out. problem is now that DS is 18 I cannot ring the GP for him and he is not quite ready for the responsibility of ringing them himself so we are in catch 22 at the moment.


I have my car back - they kept it for 1.5 weeks and the battery issue did not happen even though they left it a week so I just have to keep an eye on it. They have fixed the wing mirror now - looking like £250+:eek:


We finished two of the chicken runs and collected 15 hens who are now starting to lay so we should make our money back quite quickly by selling the eggs.


DH has started the other 2 pens but we need to build a new hut before we can fence the area.


In more animal news I have a poorly pig who went to the vet yesterday - what a commotion that was trying to catch a pig and getting it to the vet.
She is much better after steroids and antibiotics and we have to take her back tomorrow - hopefully she won't need to be destroyed but she has a growth in her mouth which is stopping her being able to eat. Obviously a pig needs to eat so we will see what happens.
Tonight we mixed her nuts with warm water into a porridge and she slurped it right up!!


Puppy is doing brilliantly and is so well behaved around other dogs and today she met some small bulls who approached her and sniffed her through a fence, she was petrified (as she is of every animal including other dogs) - bless her.


My house is a mess and I am fed up of it - someone from one of my committee's popped over without warning in the week, I could have cried at the state of my house - it is truly C.H.A.O.S!!
I have started another tidy today but I just don't seem to have time for everything in my life.
Another 2 bags of clothes from my wardrobe and finally I think I am getting there although my summer clothes need to come out of the loft:eek:


Got paid on Friday so have done the shuffle and paid £100 to Halifax - I really need to get this paid off.


I did an online focus group in the week and should get paid £30 in Amazon vouchers - not bad for 2 hours work.:T

Gosh where does the time go?? A month since I last posted!!!


Our chickens are making us some money, we are getting 14 eggs a day so we can usually sell a dozen a day.
We should be getting more in July so that will help with egg production as sometimes we cannot keep up with demand!!


In news, our poorly pig is much better, so much so that it took 20 minutes to catch her to take her back to the vet:rotfl:. She had some more steroids and antibiotics and we were told if she went downhill within 4 days then she would have to be destroyed as nothing else they can do for her - but she is a fighter and is doing brilliantly!! She is nearly as big as her sister now!
Total cost £47 :j - if that had been a cat or dog it would have been £125+ but our pigs are classed as farm animals hence it is cheaper!!


Puppy is still very good but chewing anything black!! She was due to be spayed this week just gone but she is having a phantom pregnancy so we have rebooked for 2 weeks time.
She is getting better with meeting other dogs but still does the petrified look everytime one comes near her - hopefully she will continue to get better.


My house is still C.H.A.O.S even though I had 3 days off - instead of housework I dug the vegetable patch:rotfl:.
I thought it wouldn't matter but then DH found someone to have our goats and gave me 30 mins notice and I still had to get home from the hairdressers so that was more people who saw my house in a sorry state - I just don't know where all the carp comes from:mad: (well the majority of it is DD who has her school books and pens etc all over the lounge and then moaned when the dog chewed her science book:p)


If I had my way we would have 2 sofa's and a coffee table in the lounge, no TV or anything:rotfl:


I made some PAD's in the month but not as many as I wanted to so just made a payment to Halifax of £200. This leaves £228.30 + interest) to pay off. I really need to get this done this month but I think we have some more animal related things to buy:(


I mentioned before that I am Chairman of the Allotment Committee but don't think I mentioned the allotments that DH and I have taken on:eek:(not sure where all this free time comes from!!). DH has picked an allotment with apple trees on so at least we are guaranteed apples this year, I have got the one next door as brambles have taken over the dividing fence so we decided that if we both worked our own plots then the bramble won't come back as we will keep on top of it (rather than relying on another plot holder to keep things in check).
Mine will be used for a shed, compost bins, and all veg related things - DH will have his apples and will also grow rhubarb and other fruit.
I have been doing 4 hours every weekend up there just clearing bramble, I don't expect to grow anything on the plot this year as it needs a lot of work to get it ready.
However in the garden we have a lovely little vegetable area, We should end up with 10 beds of 120cm x 250cm so that is plenty for the things we want to keep at home like the French beans, peas and tomatoes.


I have been paid by the online focus group but not yet put the money on my Amazon account - I really ought to do some surveys but I just don't seem to have time.


What I need to do is allocate time to everything that needs doing in a week and allowing time for me as well.