Catch up

I saw a squirrel this morning, as black as the ace of spades, it was swinging around in my trees, it was that black it was like looking into a black hole, of course I would know this as I do it so often J  Got me to wondering if that huge black cat, I thought I saw, the other day is either related or could it be that it was a whole gaggle of black squirrels holding hands and flying through my trees together?

Anyway, we got another two arrivals the other day, a pair of Faraone (as in Pharaoh) turns out they are Guinea Fowl, and lovely things they are.  Poor little birds didn't know what had hit them,   They were unceremoniously packaged up in a brown box and shoved in the boot of the car.  When his lordship arrived home he was all excited and unnecessary, demanding me to come have a look, silly old fool tried to  raise the lid and one escaped , of course it was then up to me to take up pursuit, trying my hardest to get to it before Prince Giacomo (who loved this new game), as if that wasn't bad enough we had to take my only pair of dress making scissors (impressed not) and cut the flight wings, thus making them ground hoggers and less of a flight risk, they were then escorted and placed in prison, purely for their own protection, hens can be really nasty creatures .

On a plus note the hens are happily laying once more and long may it continue.  His lordship, who likes to think of all the comforts a hen might need, has placed within the hen house, several boxes with straw to serve as nesting boxes, we noticed today that there was a queue forming around just one box, perplexed by this he took one or two of the eggs and placed them in the other boxes hoping that they might catch on.   Several hours later his lordship ventured back down and lo and behold they were still insistent on queuing for the one box.  Note to self:  Hens like to queue.

On Friday, I suggested to his lordship that the very next project in the house would be to put some shelves into  what should be my wardrobe, it’s actually an alcove waiting to be converted, we got as far as a couple of hanging rails and that’s how it stayed for the last couple of years.  When I think about shelves I imagine something smooth and sleek which appears to be the complete opposite to what he imagines.

Talk about sturdy, I asked how safe they were and to prove his point he climbed up on the first one and proceeded to prance about.  They look more like decking to me, but he has decided that he has found the perfect solution for extra beds when the Grandchildren visit J

This morning I actually went into work, the internet was functioning once more or so the secretary would have me believe.  According to outside sources there was nothing wrong with the internet and the secretary is suffering from a bout of jealousy, she has played this game before with some other unsuspecting colleague.   Oh for goodness sake, what is wrong with people, I am sorry for her because she may of just met her match, I may not be fluent in her language but I can still stand my ground and make my feelings  very clear -“ Ain’t nobody got no time for that”