Quail Eggs

I got my quail eggs this morning, all neatly wrapped in cottonwood in their little egg boxes and not a single one broken. It was lovely opening the box and finding three dozen of them, and I only order two! Thank you www.ladcott.co.uk. The incubator has been on and ready for the last week and if I put them in tomorrow night then they’ll hatch around the first weekend in December.

Last night I moved some of the baby goats out into their own house, it’s needed doing for a long time now they’re all over six months old now, Cerris, Sofia and Lobelia (the jelly bean babies). I left Bog Myrtle in with the big girls, mostly because I wouldn’t have been able to cope with her screaming all night. This evening I milked Annie-Rose (jelly beans mother) but she’s mostly dried up now.

I was on a course Friday and Saturday so this week my days are all over the place. The course was very good though and well worth going on, it was very odd travelling into Gloucester in the mornings. I haven’t been into the centre of Gloucester for ages; it’s so busy and full of people, which is very off putting when you still want to be asleep.

Some of Sunday morning was spent starting to clear the bonfire heap that is in the middle of the vegetable garden, it’s getting there. There is still a big pile of stuff but some of the space has now been re-claimed enough to be able to start digging it over. There’s still four packs of kale to go in which s going to be my job for Thursday (my next day off) and I’ve seen a collection of cauliflower that I really want, a pack of twenty-five in five different colours. So what if everyone keeps telling me that no-one other than me likes cauliflowers.