The potatoes are in the ground

 The first raised bed is up and running. Got two more to build, but I'm all out of compost for now. 

The variety of potatoes are pink fur apple and wilja. A nice waxy salad and a floury baking potato. Got enough space left in the bed for one row of cabbages. 

We're finally getting somewhere. 

I've build a small bean row, there's only really me that eats runner beans so six poles is plenty. 

And last but not least, I've made a small flower bed. 😊 It will look better as time goes on. 

Spring! A few garden jobs and snookles.

 Sunday is snake cleaning day! It takes me about two hours to clean their homes and waters. 

This is Rico the bull snake! He's beautiful! And getting big at 3 years old and 4.5 feet long!

Saturday I made homemade pizza for myself and my partner. It was glorious!

I also managed to find time around the housework to plant one of the two roses I have bought for the garden and measured out the bean row so I can work around it. 

While I had the time I also planted one of my rhubarb plants. Just two more rhubarbs, a gooseberry, three raspberries another rose, a peony to plant... And a 12 foot by 10 foot raised bed to build. 😅

Wow... 2024

 Hello!! 

I guess its been a while since I posted anything on here.

 Sorry about that.

 Life, work etc. 

You know how it goes. 

Well, I've changed jobs and moved house a few times over the last 4 or 5 years, but this is home now. Nottingham City.

 I know.

 I cant believe I'm in a city either!

Trouble will be eight years old on February 2nd. She's doing well (touch wood) and yes the eagle eyed among you will have noticed a new kitten. This is Magrat, she's an entire year old now and a wonderful little creature.  

I'm still baking cakes and breads, just not as much as I used to and I've certainly deep cleaned the kitchen since this photo was taken. ':) 

We had our first garden fire the other day, threw some old brambles on the top and I sat with a jack Danial's and coke to tend it.

Bliss!

The garden isn't fantastic in this house, to be honest its gonna be very hard work. The lawn needs levelling and from November last year I started to make a large no dig bed to get started on veg growing. I should be ready for some planting by March.

I can even get a little bit of seed sowing done this season...

So please.

Watch this space. :)

I also rescued four more ex-battery hens.

New members to the family.

As I alluded to in the previous post I have made some new friends since I regularly posted on this blog.
In August my partner and I went to a birthday party in Norfolk, whilst there we (cough) drunkenly acquired our new friend. He has been named by my other half and is called Hodor.

 As you can see, Trouble loves him very much.
This week he was neutered, micro-chipped and will eventually be allowed outside. But not for at least another five weeks.

 We also gained a beautiful Normal common boa constrictor, he's only 6 months old and still a bit snippy with me. He'll get used to me. He's thankfully since stopped sleeping on the heat matt like this.

Corn snake babies.

I am so sorry that I haven’t updated everyone about the corn snake babies. My laptop (another one) died and looking after twenty baby snakes is really time consuming.

As I said above we got twenty healthy babies to hatch and we thought that we were done and had done really well getting so many eggs. Unfortunately we were not done and Butters got egg bound.

After over a month of trying to get the eggs out and her laying the odd egg in her viv we went to the vets and got the biggest egg, that was really stuck, out. After which she laid even more eggs a few days later. All together Butters laid 33 eggs, but the thirteen that got stuck were no good (despite one looking really healthy) and didn't hatch. Butters is absolutely fine now, eating and back to her normal self. I've sold all of the baby snakes apart from two dodgy eaters who aren't ready and one last Normal boy.

I also have even more news to add but perhaps not to this rather long post. We have gained seven more members to our furry, scaley and feathery family that I will tell you about in the next post.

23 days until butters eggs hatch.

Butters my butter corn snake laid 22 fertile eggs and two slug eggs over a month ago.

It's not too long now until they hatch.

I'm not sure what colour babies we'll get, but its very exciting! 

Some of the eggs have 'windows' so I can see inside them a little bit. :D