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The Great Egg Debate
This is the fruit cage on my allotment. Its about 50ft long and 20 ft wide and its about to fall down!! It took a bad battering during the recent winds and having been built about 20yrs ago its time for it to retire lol. This is where the great debate has started, what to put in its place ?
I thought I would put a small fruit cage back over the cherry tree and gooseberries and use the other space to have chickens again. We used to keep chickens at home before, a dozen or so. Hubby didn`t say anything and I took this as ok !! That evening he tempted me with an offer, no not that one!!! He would pay half towards a new polytunnel to go where the fruit cage is to keep soft fruit in !!!?? But when I said about the chickens he said he would rather have the chickens kept at home in the garden, that way he would get to see them everyday !
Ok my imagination is working overtime and my garden not that big lol but the chickens are pretty lol.
The question is 1) Do I want chickens in the garden? and 2) Do I want to put up another polytunnel ?
But in anticipation of my decision I thought I would be a bit cheeky. I checked the price of a new poly with firsttunnels.co.uk and found that the tunnel would cost £4 more than the last one even though it was 10ft smaller in length, they were offering a deal last time. So I emailed them a lovely letter plus photos and told them how impressed I was with it. I had a nice email back and that "Laura" would be happy to deal with any queries I had in the future. I guess you are wondering where this is going ? In about a week times I will email her and ask for a better price on the second purchase of a poly, My husband always says "don`t ask don`t get" I`ll let you know if my cunning plan works lol.
I checked the seedlings in the greenhouse tonight to find a big fat snail had eaten it way through a choice selection so I took action by evicting him off the allotment, sorry I don`t believe in killing things but godsometimes I feel like it though lol. Its still early enough to plant more.
Portia is having a problem at the moment with her ex-boyfriend, in so much that she keeps checking up on him on his facebook !! he has now blocked her and now she is using her friends computer to check on him. She phoned me from work today to "confess" what she had been doing !! This is all light hearted I have to say, she can`t believe that he can get over her this quick with other girls !!! What does a mother say to that ??? Just bear in mind she did finish with him because he thought more of his mates and sport than her . I leave that one with you lol.
Laura is plodding on, no plans, I told you that I would reserve comment on the"I want to train to be an airline pilot" lol.
We had a meeting today with Jamies` team to discuss how things were going. There are intial teething problems concerning the funding and what it actually covers!! They pay £2,600 a week for him to be in residential care but that does not cover his transport, toe and finger nail cutting, haircuts etc. Out of all his benefits which they take for contribution they leave him with £20 a week to pay for his clothes, shoes, toiletries etc. We have found out that we can appeal to get his allowance increased so we will have a go. If we were not around to subsidise his needs who would pay? Any way the good news is, he is happy and thriving and getting along really well in his new house.
And he is coming home for Easter. We are going to take him to see his Grandad and Grandma in Essex. They don`t know hes coming so it will be a surprise for them as well. Will take photos.
Grandad far right and Grandma far left.
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This is my Dad (Grandad) in a parade last year to mark 25yrs of the Falklands war. He was a marine based at Poole and served in the Falklands war. We are very proud of him and especially that day. He served a full 22yrs in the Marines.
Well thats enough of my dribble for now
Have a good weekend and see you soon
Amanda and the gang
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