Changes

Ch-ch-ch-changes, in the immortal words of David Bowie.

So Dan pestered me to blog about something which isn't Sound Juicer or Devil's Pie, so here I go. What's been going on recently? Quite a bit really, and it can be summarised in three words: house, dog, chicken.

House. We've finally found a house which isn't too small, or too expensive, or too damn minging (and we saw plenty of those) to move into, so we're finally about to step onto the property ladder. Hopefully we'll be moving in sometime before Christmas, assuming everything goes to plan with the mortgage, surveys, etc. The house was build around the 50s, has a 40' garden, good size lounge, two bedrooms and a kitchen/dinner. Oh, and the foulest carpet in the front room imaginable by man.

Dog. To make a mess of our new house and eat all of our new furniture we're also trying to find a Cocker Spaniel puppy to buy around New Year. There are several potentials at the moment and if it's male, he'll be called Henry. I hope he is male, as we've totally failed to think of a good name of a female dog...

Chickens. Many years ago when we were living in South Norwood Vicky saw a documentary about people who rescue dying chickens from battery farms, and nurse them back to health. After a little treatment and care, they generally recover and will live for many more years. Vicky really wanted to do this, but a third floor flat isn't the idea place to keep chickens. Now that we are moving into a house with a decent sized garden the dream of rescuing chickens was revived, and co-incidentally a friend told us about Omlet, who make home-friendly chicken houses amusingly called "eglus". This is also on the wishlist now, although Vicky won't let me name the chickens Fried and Roast...

NP: The Essential Billie Holiday

14:35 Wednesday, 28 Sep 2005 [#] [life] (8 comments)

Posted by phil at Wed Sep 28 14:56:23 2005:
How are you going to keep chickens in a 40 inch garden?

(OK, I know, easy mistake :))
Posted by Ross at Wed Sep 28 15:01:17 2005:
Good point, fixed. :)
Posted by Dan at Wed Sep 28 15:20:06 2005:
About time too Mr B.

I'm jealous, house, dog... all you need now is 2.4 children.

Well done.  Keep it up :)
Posted by Iain at Wed Sep 28 15:46:36 2005:
How have you fixed it exactly?
As it still says "40\" garden" I'm assuming you've fixed it by getting really small chickens?

Or is it one of those gardens thats 40" wide and a mile and a half long?
Posted by Ross at Wed Sep 28 15:53:24 2005:
Stupid mtimes stupid editfile script stupid rsync.  Fixed on the server too this time.
Posted by D-vO at Thu Sep 29 09:53:00 2005:
MMmmmm All round Ross' for homemade KFC???
Posted by Kaz at Fri Sep 30 11:54:30 2005:
Good Luck Ross.

hope you have a happy home. and the Doggy will love the chickens wink

:)
Posted by Si at Fri Sep 30 12:13:05 2005:
Kofte and Shish?  Saturday and Sunday? Breast and Leg? Sage and Onion? We were gonna call our' Tikka and Balti! Good luck with the chickens if it does happen. Good luck also with the house-buying stress. Shout if you need a hand.

We had a Sunday roast last week and one of the chickens walks into the living room and eyes it up to. A moment of guilt arose on our faces, just before another reach to the serving bowl of bread sauce.

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