Update.

I'm getting quite good at yeast bread now, I'm getting better at sour-dough but I'm still not getting consistently good results. I think practice will be the only way to improve upon it.

 Esme the cat is all grown up now. Looking pretty in her new collar and tag. She still likes to fling cat litter all over the floor though.

The daffodils are all out now looking stunning, and smelling nice. Half of the tulips have finished now but the other half are still looking good.

I'm doing quite well with the garden now. I've only got one more raised bed to dig over and fill with compost and half of the boarder to dig over. I can finally start planting up once this is done. So hopefully by next week I'll be planting up.

The tomatoes were planted into their grow bags yesterday, and I finally sowed cabbages, leeks, cucumbers and teddy-bear sunflowers.  I might just manage to get everything done in time after all.

April.

I love April. Out on my walk with Niche we found a field full of lambs. >_<

They're a rare breed but I've forgotten their name, its written on a bill board next to the field.

Niche managed to hurt herself on the walk and is limping. I hope she'll be better tomorrow. 

I've been making some headway with my garden recently. I've planted my cut and come again lettuce.

should be enough to keep me going.

I sowed parsnips, carrots, beetroot, turnips and radish. The radish and turnips have germinated. 

I planted out the broad beans I sowed three weeks or so ago.

I planted out the peas that I sowed 15 days ago.

Still have a lot of work left to do. :/

Thankfully the chickens are fenced away from the rest of the garden now.

The babies are living with the big chickens fully now. I can't say the big chickens are friendly exactly, but they tolerate them. 

Mean old chickens. 

Life.

Well the two youngest chicks both died the other day. I'm not totally sure what did it as they both died within a 20 minute period but from what I've read it looks like gape worm.

I'm sad about their deaths. They were lovely little guys. I'm doing my best to focus on the other chickens though. The biggest babies, are now almost 7 and a half weeks old and are outside now and living with yellow, one of our big chickens. The other two chickens attacked them but yellow is quite good with them. We'll start to integrate the other chickens gradually.

I bought an apple tree yesterday to plant in the garden. Its a cox's orange pipping (I think) and was a bargain at £7. Today I bought four strawberry plants as well. If only it would stop raining, I'd be able to go outside and plant them.

Eleven days until they go outside.

One out of three.

One of my eggs hatched yesterday. Unfortunately only one of them did hatch, so we ended up going on a rescue mission to find our lonely little chick a friend.   

 We travelled to Hens4pets where the lovely lady that owns the place let us have one of her chicks to keep ours company. We now have one Silver Campine, and one New Hampshire red.

 So that they didn't feel left out my big chickens had a lovely morning dust bathing before being given a couple of handfuls of meal worms.

And I even managed to find time to pot on some globe artichokes and to plant a new clematis called The President. 

Baking.

I think this is one of the best loaves I've made in a while.

And these cookies are good. Coffee and chocolate chip. Very nice. I made more than I could fit in the jar. Oh well, three cookies won't last long. :D

My chicks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz-Wg6tUeW4