New egg-layers, new job

The new girls are both laying eggs, though Rocky has taken to escaping and laying in the front garden.  She always comes back once she’s done her duty.  We’ve had to put extra netting up to keep her in, hopefully once she’s found a new spot and is happy with it, the netting can come down – it’s really ugly, lol.

I started a new job at STROUD CARPETS, the bosses (husband and wife) are fab.  OH works there too – he started 3 weeks ago.  We have completey different jobs so shouldn’t annoy each other too much!

The veg is growing well, the fruit bushes have plenty of flowers and we’ve just picked more rhubarb.  We’ve promised the neighbours a rhubarb crumble, will probably make that tomorrow.

Here’s the view from work -

     

Finally……..

The seeds are all sown!  We’ve done everything about a month later than previous years, so we’re hoping it’ll be OK.  We have -

• Tomatoes
• Salad leaves
• Radishes
• Yellow beans
• Berlotti beans
• Beetroot
• Carrots
• Spinach
• Potatoes
• Swede
• Parsnips
• Sprouts
• Cucumbers
• Chilli peppers

We also have fruit – strawberries, raspberries, loganberries, blackberries and blueberries.

Our rhubarb plant produced some very bitter fruit last year, it looked like it was about to give up.  So we put an upside down plastic dustbin over it and left it.  This is what we found when we uncovered it a few days ago – it tastes lovely. We’ve made a couple of crumbles and the rest is in the freezer

We’ve bought two more chickens, a Rhode Island Red and a Rhode Rock.  They’ve both escaped over the fence so their wings have been clipped.  I thought I had a photo of them but I can’t find it, as soon as I do I’ll upload it.

Daisy Chick usually lays medium-large size eggs.  When any of the girls lays an extra large, it’s accompanied by a lot of squawking.  When we heard this coming from Daisy, we went to have a look.  And then laughed.  Her usual egg is in the middle, her ‘loud’ egg is on the left.