Sunday in the garden.

The sun graced us with its presence this weekend, so I grabbed to opportunity to tidy up the garden.

The ladies grabbed the opportunity to scoff up-dug worms but retreated to the safety of the bench whilst 'monster chook muncher' (aka the lawn mower), was out and about.

Annie checks out my gardening/tidying skills.

Colourful Geranium leaves.

After all that gardening I needed a nap...but you probably already know about that! :D x

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A Lesson Learned...

...but obviously not quick enough!

Don't leave your camera equipped phone, unattended in the presence of your children.

We were 'Trolled'!

As I said, DON'T leave your camera equipped phone, unattended in the presence of your children.

Caught having a quick afternoon snooze

Lesson learned!

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A Technical Poultry Term...

...?! 

Well, I guess there's no doubt about what ailment it's for!

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Whilst wandering about the local garden centre, I saw this attracting quite a lot of attention:

I was quite probably the only person stood there thinking it would make a great coop.

Finally, on a chicken-free note, my only purchase of the day were these rather fabulous cup and saucer planters.

It's my birthday soon, I may drop hints & cross fingers as there were lots of designs :D

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It's always the little voices ;)

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Chasing sparrows...

...collared doves, wood pigeons and running away from big girl hens can take its toll on a chickie...

She fell asleep whilst I wrote about her adventures.

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Spring Cleaning

Not my house no, though that does actually need one.

...but the blog!

I asked my daughter to draw the ladies for an egg box label, (she's off to Uni to study Illustration, owns has a drawing tablet and lots of exotic drawing programmes. I'm still a pencil & paper kinda gal).  

We chose Ruby, Peggy & Annie as we decided their colours would look the most striking together, rather than cram all six of them on.  Annie's markings caused her all sorts of problems, I decided not to ask what draft this finally was...

I liked it so much I thought I'd put it on the blog but it didn't quite go with the wood effect.  I thought it didn't go with quite a lot of the themes I tried.  Many theme variations later, I went with white.

It looks a bit stark, I'm not decided, you might see it change until I finally make up my mind.

I love the picture though <3

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My husband...

...is a very tolerant man :)

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