Chickens

I thought you would like to meet my new Chooks, two Marrans and two light Sussex. We have had them nearly two weeks and are hoping that they will start laying very soon. The Marrrans lay a dark chocolate egg and the Sussex lay a whitish egg, quite a contrast but both taste equally delicious.
We did think about naming them but after the fox attack last time I am trying not to get too attached. The puppy is not quite sure what to make of them he just stands there and looks and occasionally barks.

And on a final note Happy Birthday to my 6 year old. Hope you have a lovely day, love you loads, Mum and Dad XXXXXXXX.

Somebody has been busy!

Not at lot you can say about this apart from WOW!

Its that time of year again!

Its that time of year again when the beach huts come out of hibernation and return to there nesting site for the summer season. As I mentioned last post, ours hasn't quite woken up yet but in the next few weeks it will join its flock down on the front.

We didn't go anywhere this Easter, instead we tidied up in the garden, planted some seeds, and ate lots of chocolate. My soon to be six year old finally learnt to swing himself (hooray) and we took him to a very foggy Ramsgate where he learnt to ride his bike(double hooray). So it has been a very relaxing and enjoyable weekend.

Harvey

Here is the new addition to our family, Harvey, who is a Cocker Spaniel. He is very cute but being only 16 weeks old it is very much like having another baby. He wakes up in the middle of the night to go to the loo and then he wakes up about 5.30 in the morning so we are quite exhausted. He went down the beach yesterday for the first time and they are putting the beach huts up in Stone Bay already! I haven't even thought about putting ours up yet, it still needs a new coat of paint.

Rubbish

Isn't it surprising how much rubbish you collect over Christmas! As we will not be having a collection until next Saturday, we will dutifully take it over to the tip tomorrow. On the subject of rubbish I had to go and see the District Nurse at Newington Clinic this afternoon(my burn is getting a lot better) and coming home via Newlands and Dumpton couldn't get over the amount of rubbish lying about especially Fosters lager cans -its a shame they can't DNA them and them dump them at that person's house but then again they probably wouldn't notice!

Just a short explanation of the previous picture - my eldest hadn't consumed too much Tia Maria but had been helping his Dad make a fantastic Christmas Dinner, he hadn't work so hard for ages and just crashed in the back room and I just couldn't resist taking a photo for posterity!

What a Xmas!

And a good time was had by one and all!!!!!

Merry Christmas

Seasons greetings to everyone. I have been up since 5.00am this morning my littleun was desperate to see if Father Christmas had been and of course he had BIG time. We are now in the process (I say we but I have left it to the male members of the family) of building a Lego Castle unfortunately last time we bought a Lego castle my husband spent ages (hours actually) building it and I managed to trip over it and smashed it back into pieces so I have been banned from the Lego making area.

Well I hope everybody has a lovely day with plenty of merry making, I can just hear the first arguments starting so I am of to grill my croissants for breakfast. Merry Christmas.

The countdown continues

Well I know it isn't a Christmas picture but I managed to pour hot baked bean juice over the back of my hand and I have a rather nasty burn, so it is rather difficult photographing anything at the moment. But this sunset on Saturday evening rather took my fancy so I snapped it and it came out quite well.

I suppose I could have snapped the hoards of shoppers at Westwood Cross on Saturday but when I was there in the morning, they wasn't any more than a normal Saturday. My mum works in Ramsgate and she said it has been very quiet all month.



Anyway on a more personal note I would like to say Happy Retirement to my Mum, she is retiring on Wednesday after working for the same company since 1958 (she did have some time off to have us kids but it works out she has given 40 years service). Enjoy yourself!

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells

I thought this might brighten up everybodies day as I don't think it is actually going to get light today.

I bought this at Bluewater on Tuesday, couldn't resist it. I love colour - I only have three black items in my wardrobe, a Tesco's cashmere jumper, a skirt from Monsoon and a pair of trousers - everything else is full of colour and I think it helps your mood if you wear something colouful - I am actually wearing red stripes today!

Anyway it would have been my Nan's birthday today and she was always given a huge box of chocolates with a padded silky lid with a picture of fluffy kittens or some other fluffy animal, they would last her ages and as a treat we were allowed to choose one - yum! Nowadays people eat chocolates regularly but then it was such a luxury, how things change.

Twinkle, Twinkle

I went on a girl's day out to Bluewater yesterday. There were five of us and great fun was had by all. (Thank you to the driver -Mamma Mia! never sounded so good. He He He)

If you want to grab a bargain you need to get yourselves up there. I bought two tops at 50% off unbelievable. Signs for discounts were going up as we went round which made it quite difficult working out how much you should be paying.

I have been out shopping this morning and getting equally confused, Debenhams have 20% off, M & S have discounted items and it's 20% off tomorrow. Tesco's receipts are quite confusing with vatable and non-vatable items. What a muddle!!!!!