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no news can also mean that my internet and hence VOIP 'landline' phone went down for 3 hours as well which was probably more exciting that the bore pump pipe coming apart yet again at the bore pump. Since it was 'fixed' by the plumber's trainee it has come apart 3 times. I have fixed it 3 times. It has come apart in different places each and every time. This means that the bore pump brings the water to the surface where it then effectively ditches it. The only really good side to this is that it is the bore pump's side of the non-return valve so we don't at least lose the water in the pipe which is way more than you could ever imagine. I had to fix the pipe the other side of the non-return valve before I got the plumber in and walking to the top of the hill, turning off the tank, walking to the bottom of the hill and disconnecting the pipe work got me very, very wet. It took so long for there to even be a slowing down in the flow of the water that I wasn't entirely convinced at one point I had turned off the bore tank.
3 of the 5 raised veg beds have now been dug over.
The possum will eat tomato plant leaves which I had hoped would be safe outside being poisonous to most things
I saw an echidna (but I think that has already been posted here).
We bailed on the shopping yesterday to do the gardening instead.
The house is dirty as anything and needs a very good hoovering.
Tomorrow we go to see a lake which does not normally contain any water. Apparently it now has water in it due to all the rain we have had since my OH and I arrived in Australia.
depends whether you think getting between you and your hand with the spade in it (trowel, or hand fork) whilst you are trying to dig counts as behaving? But they are laying reasonably regularly - well the new one is, the other of the 2 isn't (she missed a day earlier in the week out of her 2 days laying, 1 day off routine). We get 3 newbies on Wednesday (hopefully) who are ex-rescue hens who lay very occasionally and will be there solely for company and flock numbers and because we have the space.
As for behaving? nah... yesterday was a try to tidy the garden day and the only success I had was all my 'piles' re-distributed, so I quit and went and dug up some weeds and thistles in the chook enclosure and the chooks had a whale of a time eating anything that moved.
I'm also currently being told off for not having fed them, but the youngest (JJ) is laying an egg and was when I went out to feed them 30 mins ago. She'll sit on it for a while yet before she gets off, so its hard to tell when its safe to feed them. I don't like disturbing her mid-lay and she will stop laying or trying to, if I go down there to feed them. They have plenty enough feed in the feeder anyway but I have to open the doors to the chook house and before we go off to do the shopping let them out of the chook pen (else they find there way into the veg plot and can't then get back out of it or into the chook enclosure or get shelter or water)... Shopping is an all morning event with the closest supermarket bigger than a local spar being over 50km away.
The new hen is also getting very broody. Yesterday she forced the 'top' hen to get off the egg she had just lain and at one point there were 2 chooks in the single nesting box. JJ then sat and laid an egg herself and stayed on the eggs for nearly 2 hours before deciding to go and get some feed, at which point I swiped them. There are actually 4 nesting boxes. I tried telling my OH we didn't need that many but men are men and don't listen.
So as you can see, no news, nothing mundane, but nothing interesting either. Today's interesting news is that tomorrow is a Bank Holiday here in Australia and next Monday is also a Bank Holiday in ACT, so my OH has 2 BH's in a row and the clocks also go forward next weekend as well. So having just gotten used to being 9 hours ahead of the UK, for 4 weeks we will be 10 hours ahead and then 11 hours ahead when your clocks go back!
