we planted peas, well we planted out pea plants, 15 of them. and then boo planted 2 pea seeds directly into her ‘veg trough’ and Toot, her chicken promptly stuck her head through the fence and ate one of them! i’ll replace it this weekend – while Toot isn’t looking so hopefully she won’t realise…..
Boo [...]
Archive for April, 2008
peas and an unfortunate chicken incident
Posted in Veggies on April 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
strawberry and chocolate and banana cake recipe
Posted in food on April 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Boo says….
“some stlawberries an some banana an some toclat blownie that Muffin made de uva week on top”
i think that’s it.
the toclat blownie in the recipe was made like this….
4oz plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
12oz light brown soft sugar
3oz green & blacks cooking chocolate, chopped roughly
4oz butter
3 eggs
2 tsp instant decaf coffee
grease & flour tin [...]
a bread post for KW
Posted in food on April 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
dear Kitchen witch, i thought you’d appreciate this entry in my blog.
this ‘not dough really’ pic was brought to you by the wonderful Tom….
you will be pleased (or not in KW’s case i suspect) to hear that the next batch resulted in some rather delicious bread rolls, one of which i shaped into a hedgehog [...]
strawberry, chocolate and banana cake a la boo
Posted in food, happiness on April 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
boo has just handed me the most delicious cake ever! she made it herself and told me it tasted of strawberries and chocolate and bananas mmmmm lovely. it was of course of the imaginary variety but i can tell you it was delicious!
i’d post the recipe but she she’s busy singing ‘the grand old duke [...]
chickens again – and a little bit about veg!
Posted in Learning, Veggies, chickens on April 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
just a quick blog confession. i took 45 photos of chickens yesterday. i won’t bore you with them, i promise. well, not many of them…..
the chickens have names, i’ll match each name to a face and that’ll be about it – but not until later, blogging while feeding yogi in order to maximise time….
i have [...]
slightly random posting
Posted in Veggies on April 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
thought i’d investigate the links from the big sofa and found this
on Adrian’s blog
more on the chickens
Posted in chickens, happiness on April 12, 2008 | 5 Comments »
last weekend we painted the chicken house in order for it to be ready for the chickens we thought we might go look at this weekend.
i fancied some Sussex hens, supposed to be child friendly, good layers and not too keen on flying away, i also think they look nice. but, we got standard hybrid [...]
last weekend before the snow was spent doing this
Posted in chickens, happiness on April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yogi and i thought it best to keep our hands clean
last weekend we had
Posted in happiness, making things! on April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
all of the above were taken on sunday of last week. monday the girls got up, noticed that the garden was fairly snowless but that the fields were still covered. they thought gerald could do with some company and so gwendolen was created, although smaller she involved a little more effort as they had to [...]
and this weekend we have….
Posted in chickens on April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
chickens! we have four, 2 cream coloured, 1 brown with black tailfeathers, 1 brown with cream tail feathers.
Rach, the one you share with Yogi is cream.
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