Water Butts and Eggs Galore!

So it happened, on the day that the two extra water butts were delivered it was announced there will be a hosepipe bank in the South of England, but happily at the end of the report came the rider, except in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight! It doesn't rain here much at all but our local water company obviously has looked after its supplies better than elsewhere. 

Better safe than sorry though, its bound to happen here eventually so to save as much water as possible I can now store 600 litres.

The original Butt was placed next to the Greenhouse and now we had to fit two more in next to it. No Problem

An hours work and it was all done. 

Just as a slight aside, I did mention that the picture quality would not be so good for a while because I had broken Jim's camera. Well I found a company online called First Digital Repairs who repaired and returned it within a week. Very impressive service at very good price, especially as all the major camera shops I went to said that it couldn't be fixed and had to be replaced with a new one. So if you break your camera, give it a try. I had apparently got grit in the lens mechanism! Normal picture quality will be resumed from the next post. 

on to Egg news. After Bab's eggstraordinary day on Sunday her eggcellent work has continued and she has produced a small, but perfectly formed egg every day this week. I had the first egg for my breakfast on Monday. I went for scrambled.

It was delicious, As you can see the yolk was bright orange and it made lovely scrambled eggs. Jim had a little  taste, he gets his first home laid egg when I finish this blog, as we have saved the last two eggs to have them poached this morning. Here they are waiting to go in the pan.

And finally for today just a few pics of Chicken/Puppy action, Normally Gibson teases the chickens but yesterday it was the other way round, poor puppy was beside himself

Have a great day I'm off for eggs and then a bit of greenhouse time.

A quiet week in the garden

After weeks of hard work, moving and building things, suddenly we have loads of spare time. a few smaller jobs needed doing, like repairing the lawn which we had trampled to within an inch of its life,  and starting a few more seed in the greenhouse, but apart from that little has happened. 

I did get another shed though! so now we have a shed, a summerhouse and a rather sweet little tool store that looks like a sentry box! 

It needed a coat  of preservative when it arrived so I got to work painting, it wasn't long before the chickens decided to come and see what I was up too. For some reason they took a fancy to the plastic bag it was standing on whilst I was painting!

They obviously have a taste for plastic..

The shed was soon placed in it new spot in the allotment and very nice it looks too. of course as soon as I went to put stuff in it, I found that because of the shelf my hoe and rake don't fit. Oh well .

I finished painting my cable reels and also cleaned up the bench that the last house owners left behind and I now have a sunny spot to sit and look at my growing plants. 

We have ordered two more water butts because they weather people all seem to think we are going to have a drought, I don't want all my hard work to be in vain because I can't use my hose. 

I did also plant my first crop in the raised beds as the packet said they had to be in, in February. Seems a touch early to be planting outside but I followed instructions. The left over pallets came in useful again and Jim cut me 20 small bits to make labels out of so I know what I have planted where.

I have looked every day but no sign of them yet. 

Finally the blog would not now be complete without a few pictures of stupid chickens.. Margot decided she could climb trees and I wandered out one afternoon to see this. 

I have no idea how long she had been there, but I left her for another hour before rescuing her from her perch. Hopefully she has learned her lesson and won't try again! 

Its Puppy day tomorrow so we are up early to go and collect Gibson and bring him home. Watch this space for pictures.