Checking for scraps

Three of my hens just checking for any seeds that my have fallen off of the bird table, before moving off for a scratch around the garden. Little do they know that their completely free range of the garden is coming to an end sometime this summer, when they will have a large fenced off area. However, these beautiful two legged rotovaters, are doing a great job at turning over the soil in preparation for planting.

Over the weeks I will be showing you some of the weird and wonderful objects that they have dug up in my long asleep garden which was once, obviously loved by it's previous elderly owner, before it went quiet and neglected.

OMW - Six Word Saturday

Today over on One Minute Writer today is Six Word Saturday & today our prompt is to describe our life in six words, so this is how I would some up my life...

Family - Animals - Rural - Unregimented - Cluttered - Contented

Have a lovely Sunday folks & remember to make time for you in your day too..!
Jx

OMW - Friday Fiction

Over on the One Minute Writer blog, they hold a Friday Fiction they drop the minute timer & encourage you to write a short {short short} story, again using a prompt.
Todays prompt is:

Strings

I was sat up in the attic, not sure how long I had been up here but, I knew that time must be ticking on by the pin and needles feeling in my feet where I had been sat on them for so long. Looking around me now I am surrounded by so much ephemera of what turned out to be the beginning of my parents life together. "Amazing" I thought to myself as I stretched my legs out, trying to rid my feet of the tingling, I had learned so much about Mum and Dad's life before 'Me', in such a short time and I learned all this from the letters and journals which it turned were attached to the string that I pulled on that was hanging out of the trunk.

Well, that's my 1st ever attempt at any type of story, it may not be the best but, I did enjoy writing it so I guess that's mission accomplished :)

Thanks for reading
Jx

Damage Stops Play

My camera has stopped working I don't know what's wrong with it, one minute I was taking photos the next it went blank. Everything works on it just as though your taking a photo, but the LCD screen is blank, I can see the 'centering' markers that you use to line up a shot but everything is just ... well blank.! It's almost like when the lens comes out that a shutter is remaining closed obscuring the view, so I can't see my subject, the lens can't see the subject so I don't get my photo.
Ok, so it's just a kodak point & shoot camera & nothing fancy but, it's all I have got & it serves me well {up until now anyway} I have lot's of stuff I want to put on Ebay, I have just signed up to a daily photo journal too, not to mention adding photo's on here. Typical, things don't half pick there moments. So if anyone knows what I am talking about & has a clue as to what could be wrong with my camera please share your thoughts :)
Jx

The OMW prompt today is:

Crazy
So whats makes you crazy?

My prescription medications thats what makes me crazy, well actually its how the surgery have decided to prescribe them. They will only prescribe me one months dose at a time , when they know so well that it is an ongoing medicine.
If it was something new to me, I could understand it or a controlled drug even, but no, month after month I have to re order. Times that by the amount of patients in the surgery and it's probably costing them more money in the long run, costs me twice as much money too.

Anyway, that's my minute up...
If you fancy writing down your thoughts daily with the use of a prompt, then check out the One Minute Writer blog

Birds of a feather ATCs

Here are the first 4 ATCs in a set I am making to put over on my ATC Swap Lounge blog
I have decided to call the set which will contain at least 6 ATCs , possibly more "Birds of a Feather"
They are all British birds & they have been made using smalls scraps of left overs paper & an RSPB brochure that was included in the weekend newspaper, plus a touch of ink & the odd gem. The photos of the birds were far too pretty to simply throw into the recycle bin :)

I really shouldn't window shop....

I just found this great site for perfumes ect. I really shouldn't have spent anything but I couldn't help but treat myself. I was good though & ordered a perfume for my step daughter Daisy's birthday which is at the end of the month.
Fragrance Direct

Chit Chat & Chickens

I had to be up early this morning as my partner is away for the weekend visiting his children, meaning I needed to be up to let the hens out otherwise they would have created such a noise the whole neighbourhood would have known they were still shut in :) We lost a hen early on this week & it's a complete mystery as to what happened to her, no signs of feathers anywhere that would suggest a struggle with an animal of some kind, I have been up & down the road, no signs of squashed chicken & across the field looking, but still no signs of her. She was in the garden at midday when I did a head count & gone by 1pm, all very strange especially as she was one of my 3 original hens that I purchased as chicks & the 3 always stayed together. I have since aquired another 2 hens that my son asked me to have {he wants his garden back} so now I am back up to 5 hens again, so a full house :) & by the sounds of the happy crowing I just heard, there will be at least 2 eggs in the nest to collect later.

I am determined to do something crafty today, nothing big I don't think because I still haven't got my craftroom back yet & I daren't start anything big as family are likely to drop by at some point today & nothing is sacred when my grandbabies are around, even my youngest grandson Logan who is 7 months old is crawling & pulling himself up to the furniture.

Anyways, I am just off for a look around some of my favourite blogs & then I will make a start. Hopefully, I will have something to show later!

Have a great weekend everyone

Jx