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
