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Emerald layed a double yoker. Five years waiting for hens, eight weeks of waiting for an egg.

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I've just been on another forum this morning. Home Page as in north east eco friendly people (aberdeenshire fab forum) Apparently Homebase made an error and was selling 6 by 8 wooden sheds for £30!!!!!!

WAS WAS WAS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Several people managed to order them before Homebase became aware of their mistake, stopped but sold some at £69. The excitement!!! My Credit card did somersaults in anticipation but all were gone.....

To have bought a shed and...

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Planning to grab my garlic when I let the chooks out this morning. It's truly pouring. New spinache and radishes doing well. Have got two new mini plastic greenhouses, one is a grow bag cover one, I've two healthy large tomatoes in there Organic Tigerella and a..... hot, forgotton name chilli pepper. Also got a little one with more toms, some beans and cabages. Have thinned out foxglove seddlings into a cell tray. they've recovered the move and are doing well. A neighbour gave me some small foxgloves...

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I've thinned out my potatoes, apparently they were too close. (First year at potatoes.) I've put in more rocket, radishes and bordeaux spinache. Lots of weeding, lots of chick weed!

I've put some toms plants (Tigerella and Olirose) under a mini poli tunnel on veg bed. They've ben on wondowsill with windows a little open for a while. A bit of a tester, not expecting too much. Will need to fix greenhouse roof, have a tidy up and put the rest in there.

More guineas. Thought...

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Hens.
The hens are bigger with shinier feathers, fluffier bottoms and much pinker faces. No eggs yet. Fiona has become Annabelle, suits her more. Characters developing hugely. Almost two weeks ago we spent the morning building a bigger run that their hen house opens out too. hens very happy and busy. They now put themselves to bed, just before we go out and close hatches for the night.

Garden.
Have started clearing bottom of the garden, is shared with our lovely neighbours...

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