Category: Lifestyle block for beginners
Refinishing the dining table
Let’s face it: After 8 years of heavy duty our colonial style dining table didn’t make a good picture in our new home. The red-ish…
Upcycling: Benches for the garden
During roof construction for the house our builders ordered one 4m long glued timer beam too much. Instead of dumping it we thought we could create…
Cuteness overload!
The chicks are two weeks old today, and they are adorable. Out of 12 eggs there were 8 chicks, of which 2 died on the first day,…
Chicks!!!
What a coincidence! Exactly the same day when we move in, some of the eggs turned into fluffy yellow furballs. Amazing! :) OK, admittedly it was…
Gold fish
When we have got our three little gold fish for the pond in early October, all of them were still grey. We couldn’t see them…
The broody hen
“broody” definition: A hen that is committed to hatching chicks is known as a broody. The state of being broody is controlled by instinct, hormones…
Garden update – November 1st
We’ve been busy in the garden lately. A thick layer of bought hop compost helps us to speed up the process of improving our poor…
A more spacious home for the chicken
I admit it, the chicken tractor was more a temporary solution, a nice method to use chicken as lawn mowers, but they really need a…