New Kitcen on the way

So the kitchen has really dominated over the last week or so since3 I last wrote. It now looks pretty good even if it is not functional and working yet. We can at least now use the hob and oven a little so we have advanced to such meals as oven ready Pizza and pasts with sauce, which is quite exotic compared to simply more microwave Shepherds Pie (unless your Harriett who is now very taken with microwave meals). At the moment the walls are being skimmed and then tomorrow the guys who built the kitchen are back and should finish then or possibly Monday. Still some finishing off to do after that, but we are definitely near the end.

Speckled Star (chicken) is ill again now. She has some sort of eye issue. I ended up taking her to the vet yesterday and getting her eye drops.Eye drops... for a chicken. She is really the kids favorite so got a bit of extra special treatment going. Duke and Bluebell are both looking a bit fed up with each other. I think they are bored with just each other for company. I might let the chicks in with them for a few hours later just to cheer them all up.

The polytunnel is doing brilliantly. I now have two beds ready to go. ONe is fully planted up and all the plants in it are doing really well. I should get the other one planted up this afternoon. It's brilliant. Only one tiny but of slug damage in their and I caught the perpetrator in the act and swiftly evacuated him from the tunnel. We have gained more Strawberries and some Rhubarb from freecycle and so I now need to get them planted out. I think I may need to dig another Strawberry bed. But then I can't imagine having too many Strawberries. I just can't see that it's possible to grow more than you can consume, freeze or turn into jam.

I need to get ordering orchard trees as they will become available soon and I'll get onto that once the kitchen is sorted. Well lunch and the polytunnel are calling.