The Plan..... Da Da Daaaaaaaaaa

All Plans as you know should be pretty simple!!! However, you ALL know me and know that absolutely nothing is simple with me!! I think we really have settled with this one though, which is why I am pretty confident with posting it on here!

So July 21st we are trekking off to Dorset to stay 2 nights in a little B&B called the Fox Inn in Antsy, the main reason for this is 100 years ago I caught some program or other about gardening, and they were saying about some Jurassic gardens in Dorset... I really wanted to go and have kept it in my tiny mind all this time.... so off we go to Abbotsbury where they are situated...

http://www.abbotsbury-tourism.co.uk/gardens.htm

There is also a swannery there which I'd like to see... Nick assures me he does too and I'm not just dragging him about by the scruff of his coat!!!

From there we are settled to travel the short distance to Highcliff on sea which is near Bournmouth..... Nick has never been to Beaulieu, and with him being a big car person I thought he may enjoy it, plus it may be a minor trade off for the gardens!!! We will also have a look into Bournmouth, and maybe come back for longer another time....

Soooooooooooooo on friday the 25th we will start our trek back..... not that easy though.....

We will have to call 2 breeders to see which one has the most in that we want and then we will hot foot it over there as most appear to shut at 1pm - not that convenient.......

We have tracked down boxes as vets it appears don't sell the cardboard cat carriers any more and pets and home only appear to have them for hamsters!!!

So we are all set, stock allowing........

Wish us luck!

Helping out the neighbours

Well today Nick and Henry put up a willow fence. They braved the gusting winds with a two meter very bendy fence.....

It's going all the way around the back and down one side of where the chooks will be living. It's been well staked with tree posts to keep it up round the back and it nailed to the fence on the other side.....

It's predominately to help out Karen who lives at the end of the garden to help to shield the noise and noise limit to what she can see, although I think she's quite keen to keep her beady eye on them... also to sheild us from next doors very nutty dogs! They are constantly either trying to come under or over the fence and I fear that the chance of a chick will be too much for them to keep their restraint... I'd like to see the bugger pole vault over 2m of fence... maybe we should keep a CCTV cam there just in case!!!

Surprisingly though it really does sheild from the elements.. We were put to a good test up there today as it was gale force at times, and it really does cut it down by at least 50% if not more. I think our chooks will be very warm and cosy in there; it's pretty private for them now, so they should be very content!!!