Morning all. Slightly overcast currently. Hoping it will warm up a touch more today because I want to get some painting done but need life a touch warmer because its the bedroom cupboard that needs painting and I need the smell gone by bedtime.
On the chook front, we now have 2 chooks instead of 1 chook and 1 pullet. Sadly the pullet that came of age last night hasn't worked out that laying from the roosting perch is not where you lay an egg from. This is despite spending the entire day investigating and sitting in the nesting boxes!
Maybe next time we will be more lucky!
I moved south to live with OH, and regretted having to leave NW England. But hearing all these complaints of horrible summers when I think both this summer and the last were pretty good, I'm thinking that trading in hills and moors for better waether was quite a good deal after all.
We did something similar after leaving Preston (and the Lakes District) for Surrey. Hated it until we moved to the Surrey/Sussex/Hampshire border and had some scenery back but found the place just had too many trees and was too claustrophobic. Hated not being able to see mountains and only survived by returning to the Lakes and later on to Scotland repeatedly during the year. I missed views badly. The weather didn't hack it for me.
Right. WHO'S NICKED MY SUN????
It also spent the day with me, though sadly I had to stop using it for Vitamin D collection around midday when the first of a series of workmen turned up rather suddenly and a touch early. Luckily, he was as usual in the middle of a phone call via Bluetooth in his 4x4 so it was not quite as
as it could have been!
But we now have a few less water leaks (after the plumber accidentally cut through the main line of the large 25,000L tank) than we had before and finally don't have 1cm gaps along the tops of all the windows
in the middle of winter (builder job)... OK Spring has officially started, but we are still getting sub-zero temps (forecast again for next week) and daytime temps of +20C.... It makes for an interesting day working in the house and the garden. You start off
at 7am, by 9am are down to 1 layer and by 11am cursing looking for a hat, suncream and shade. Mind you we are due 20-40mm of rain tomorrow, all in the afternoon which means its going to rain hard and wash the place clean. At least I will know if the builder has sorted some of the leaks he created when he had to replace rotten wood work in the laundry.
Right, off to check on some of the work they did and clean up after them!