Busy stuff!
Well, I've finally got all the Christmas presents sorted (after a mammoth shopping trip on Saturday), and they are wrapped (mostly) and ready to go under the tree on Christmas Eve. I spent most of yesterday cooking goodies to go in the bags that I give to family, I made:
Shortbread (decorated with edible glitter)
Mini snickerdoodles
White chocolate coconut ice
Chocolate truffles
Vanilla fudge
I just need to bag them up in little cellophane bags and pop them in the goodie bags along with the jams/jellies and homemade raspberry vodka or sloe gin.
I was going to go to circuits tonight - but I think I'm coming down with something.... I feel totally rubbish and think that an early night is best
I cleaned out the hens and bunnies yesterday; Jude my Ancona bantam has started crouching, so she's changed from an elusive road-runner type to a cuddly and approachable hen. Hopefully she will lay soon - Phil has his money on a Christmas Day egg from her! I have to say that I am relieved because I was wondering whether she was an Arthur or a Martha... she's had enormous red face furntiure for ages now, and the other morning when I let them out of the cube, someone crowed, well, sort of... now hens sometimes do this, but I had 3 newbies who still hadn't laid yet, so it wasn't out of the question that I mifght have a boy there, although I'm fairly certain that they are all girls. Bit of relief there then, and I am now waiting for a small white egg *grins*
I measured and weighed the pup at the weekend - she's 20.5" and 11.6kg, so in a fortnight she has gained 1.5" and a kg, which is amazing. I thought that she looked a bit bigger, but seeing her every day, I couldn't be sure. Ruby has made a doggie friend in the park - a black labrador called Joss. They get on very well and Ruby bullies Joss mercilessly *roll*. On Sunday morning, they were walkign at the same time as us, so we let them run around off the leads in the tennis courts, which are enclosed; they had a brilliant time but Ruby still hasn't learned to retrieve a ball yet.
Phil has finished the work in my utility room now, so most of the stuff is back in there and it's just down to me to organise it all and find a home for everything. It looks so much tidier now with the cupboarsd up rather than everything hanging off the shelves.
I have been spekaing to the Poultry Club of Great Britain about gaining a certified status for the courses that we run at Jude's yard, and also about running a junior poultry proficiency course there starting in the spring. The woman who I spoke to was receptive about the idea, so I hope that it will take off.
