With the winter behind us, and spring most definitely on its way, it seems a veeeery long time since I’ve been a Bloggy Blogster. The fingers are a bit rusty, the thoughts a bit fuddled… but bear with me… I’ll get the hang of it all again, you’ll see.
We’ve had a few major changes here at Chook Towers. For one, our oldest hen Maud croaked it a couple of months back. One day she was Queen of the Coop, strutting around with the best of them: the next she’d slipped away in the night. Every cloud has a silver lining though – she hadn’t laid for AGES, and since her demise, we’ve found out who the ‘Phantom Shitter in the Nest Box’ was. Our eggs are beautifully clean now!
The other big change is about to take place in… oooh… just over a week. I’m moving to a new house, with a new garden. So no more raised beds, greenhouse, and no more tales from Cluckingham Palace. The new garden comes complete with a lawn, a path, a shed… and, well, that’s about it really. Some would be daunted by the prospect, but I’m looking at it as an entire blank canvas that I can dig up and plant to my heart’s content. There. Another silver lining comes my way 🙂
All’s not gloomy though – I already have an Eglu (that’s a rather posh hen house to you), and a greenhouse earmarked to dismantle in a week or two.The Eglu travelled 140 miles in the back of my Mini (I kid you not), and the greenhouse actually belonged to one of the houses I looked at in my new house search.
The rest of the garden will take shape around them… pics to follow in later posts.
So off to pastures new – wish me luck!
Chooks and Roots 
So, you have not just spent winter leaning back on your spade, but have been a busy person. I, on the other hand, have had fun an frolics in the sun and now in rain – which has been going on for three days now. My good lady has been quite ill so other things have taken a back seat – so to speak. But she is on the mend now, so I should be able to get back out, uproot the dead things and plant more things I can watch dying during autumn. It’s all fun :o) — Welcome Back!!!!
We had a weird winter… very wet, but hardly any frost and no snow. But hopefully spring is definitely here now. Hope your other half is making a full and speedy recovery 🙂