Trying to cheer up the chickens.

Trying to cheer up the chickens in this weather. A vain hope?

I think I've given it a good go.

Doesn't she look like a pony. :P

 The dogs aren't that impressed either. I'd been walking them in the rain for three hours straight. I walked them separately, as Trouble needed a much bigger walk than Niche could cope with today.
My water proof coat let the rain through and I was soaked to the skin. My trainers were full of water.

 I wish it would stop raining!! Please stop raining.

My black Friday shopping.

Chicken breakfast.

They need something to cheer them up in this nasty weather.

Dog walk. Trouble isn't necessarily to be trusted off the lead. She's getting better though. 

She walks pretty well on the lead now. :)

This is the chicken bedding to keep us going over Christmas. 

And last but not least. Sheep!

Insomnia.

I think with all that's happening in the world right now, and with the fact that I'm coming down with something,  I am struggling to sleep.
I am wiling away the dark hours going through a book of plants and planing out the front garden.
As the garden is really rather shaded I have so far decided upon:

Asplenium scolopendrium which is an evergreen harts tongue fern. height 70cm/ spread 60cm.

 not my picture.

Athyrium niponicum var. Pictum. Japanese painted fern. height 38 cm/spread 35cm.

 not my picture

Aquilegia canadensis. Columbine. height 90cm/spread 30cm.


not my picture.

Digitalis Purpurea. Foxglove. height 6 feet/spread 50cm.


not my picture.

If anyone can think of anything else that goes well with dry shade then do comment.

Proud.

Proud >_<

I grew a very large, perfect parsnip. :D

I've grown bigger parsnips, but they've always looked like sea monsters. This is the biggest parsnip I've ever grown that actually looked like a parsnip.

These are my two sebright chicks. One boy and one girl. I am selling them. If anyone wants to buy them feel free to comment.