Uncategorized, Day-to-day lifeDecember 17, 2007 1:20 pm

The world is a cold place this morning, it looked like it’d been snowing.

I didn’t post up anything last weekend has it was just all too horrible and it still makes me sick just thinking about what happened so I’m just not going there.

The quail chicks are getting big now, almost all have feathers. The chick with the misshapen feet died. I didn’t think it would live, it just didn’t look right but at least it got a chance.

I’ve been keeping an eye on loads of different eggs on ebay and been very tempted to buy loads, I actually put a bid on 60 the other day but (sort of) luckily was outbid, it’s not that my incubator wouldn’t hold 60 quail eggs but that amount would need to be turned by hand. I’ve brought a bigger fish tank though, I picked it up last night and it’s real nice. And I’ve order a mini incubator from a seller on ebay.

My seed order arrived and I’ve already order another load. I was working in Gloucester the other day and brought a load of pots in their clearance sale, I left them in the car and a load of them smashed the other night, oh well. I wanted them for the pea and the bush runner bean seeds I got, both from the patio garden collection. I still haven’t had any more time on the garden; it’s always dark by the time I get home, even if I leave work early I just get delayed on the way back. I wanted to get some pea plants in so as they’ve got a head start in the spring but it’s not happened. 

I’ve started making lists for everything, this weeks list looks like this:

Ø      Join Gloucestershire Media Group (that ones been one there a while not)

Ø      Finish meal planner

Ø      Type up and finish seed beading instructions

Ø      Find memory stick

Ø      Send Christmas ecards

Ø      Buy chocolate for making chocolates

Ø      Clean car out

Ø      Sort strawberry plants ASAP

Ø      Clear space for fish tank

Ø      Finish painting chimney

Ø      Christmas shopping

No photo’s again, need to find memory stick.

Self Sufficient, Day-to-day lifeDecember 4, 2007 1:48 pm

I haven’t had time to do anything other than work this week. Saturday and Sunday were the first days of the Christmas Market, which went well, but there’s nothing really interesting to say about them.

The quail chicks started to hatch on Saturday. A few days before that there was a power cut and so I wasn’t sure if any of them would hatch at all but there are now nine** of them in the brooder and three hatching out in the incubator. So not bad really. I’ve made the brooder out of my old fish tank and it’s working really well. I tried taking so photos of the chicks but because of the red light you can’t really see anything.

The weather’s also been rubbish all week, or at least it feels like it’s been raining all week.

I got 24 strawberry plants from eBay for £5.49 the other day. They’re from a nursery so they should be really nice plants. I keep looking for cheap raspberry canes as well, strawberries are nice but I like raspberries better, but I haven’t found any yet.At the start of this week I was having big dreams about owning my own a veg box round or something like that, it’s sometimes disheartening that the work that get paid for doesn’t really match up with my longer term plans, however much I’m enjoying it.

*This was written last night to post up but it was far to mesmerising watching the little quail, I’m now a little sorry I missed ‘Pig Big Brother’  **The total is now up to 12 in the brooder, including one with a misshapen foot who I don’t know how well it’ll do