Tuesday 18 March 2008

More waffle and more Cath kidston

I've just had a man round to do his HIP report..taking photos of the boiler and checking whether we have that furry stuff in the roof and what lightbulbs we use, all for the bargain price of £400. (£400!!!) hmmm

Whilst he was snapping away I actually made something..shock horror.. yes I pulled my finger out and glued some wallpaper onto a box file..I finally found the right sort of box. Whilst on this crafty roll I also covered some books and re-arranged my desk..but I don't like it now, never mind.

I love this wallpaper...,it's an old Cath kidston one called Rose bouquet

I'm normally gardening on a Tuesday but because HIP man was coming I've had to change it..(just hope its not going to rain on Thursday now!) I'm not a Charlie Dimmock type gardener..I actually wear a bra and will always have make-up on..no matter what.. and if my hair isn't in pigtails its twiddled up and held in place with a crochet hook, or a pencil or a twig or anything else long and pointy.I couldn't cope with it all flapping around and getting in the way like the Dimmock....and as for the hair...lol

Don't get me wrong..I do like to get my hands dirty and I can haul tree stumps and chop hedges like the boys...just with a bit of face on! I used to be the only girlie working with a gang of 6 blokes..They worked you like a mule, you slept like a log and I loved it. My mother in law thinks men are vile and says they all smell like tom cats but I love working with men..they tell it how it is, none of this bitchiness and back stabbing that I've experienced in large stores when I was a window dresser. If you look fat that day they will tell you outright,but then have a right laugh with you about it and it doesn't matter.
You would hear stories that would make your toes curl ( if their other halves knew what I knew!!!) They would bet on me not being able to do something and that to me was like a red rag to a bull, I've lifted railway sleepers and dragged huge ton bags of garden rubbish across enormous lawns (no wonder I have a bad back!) had stingers,scratches,black-eyes and bruises..but wouldn't have swapped it for the world. Most of the burley gardeners I worked with were totally politically incorrect..some feminist would have their balls for earings..I'm not really into all that stuff, but I soon sussed that if you give as good as you get, you fit in fine, have a good laugh and get to see them work up a sweat with their tops off in the summer..haha. Those times have long gone,I garden for a few little old ladies keeping their gardens immaculate but I do miss the big clean-up jobs and the really hard-work.I occassionally get a text with the most obscene man-joke from my old boss,but thats about it.

let us out ...NOW! or you wont get any easter eggs.

The ladies of the feathered variety are most upset with me, normally I let them out in the afternoon to run riot in the garden,but as the house is up for sale I thought they had better stay in their run.

The noise they're making! crikey are they telling me off..shouting and bickering with one an other, pacing up and down the fence like tigers at the zoo. I'd better let them out for a bit..I know what they'll do, de-head the daffodils, eat the lawn and poop on the doormat. What hooligans!

"you lot eat the lawn and we'll wreck the flowers"

I'll let them off this time as they did manage to rustle up 6 eggs between the ten of them today..Mavis is still laying even though shes a bit matronly and her eggs look like large bosoms (seriously they do ..I'll show you sometime!) and break easily..especially when those massive clumsy Orpingtons get in the laying box to pop out their dainty little pale eggs..but she still gets a gold star for effort..bless.


22 comments:

  1. I worked for my Dad for 8 years in a construction company, soI was surrounded by men, just like you I loved it. Men are so much more straightforward at work, and it was a laugh.
    I love the chicken house, how spoilt are they?!!
    Julia x

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  2. Oh my have have real thing about chickens at the moment...I think they are so full of character...
    yours look pretty spoilt! Lucky ladies...

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  3. How fantastic to have your own chickens & fresh eggs. Love their chicken house :-}

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  4. Good luck with the sale, I hated having people in my house - we had one lady who was so rude! I told her that the upstairs fireplace can be used ans she looked at me in disgust and said "why would you want that? how silly!" It'll be worth it in the end though!

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  5. Hi,

    The box files look fab! Where did you get the files from? I'm hoping to do a similar thing with some old laura ashley wallpaper i got off ebay but i'm not sure where to get them!

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  6. Yes blokes are easier to work with aren't they, I work with 15 women and it's a hotbed of hormones, someone getting upset at your tone of voice when you asked them to do something, everyone moaning about the woman who seems to be permanently pre-menstrual.... men just get on with it or at leats get over it quicker if they do fall out.What a contrast between your male dominated past and the pretty CK covered box, wonder what the chaps would have made of that!

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  7. OOoh hello...so happy to have found your blog, i love your chickens they look very happy indeed and why wouldnt they be! Happy Easter, Mel xx

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  8. What gorgeous chickens - they look so adorable! Good luck with your house sale;0)

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  9. I love your chickens and their little house it's so cute how wonderful to have fresh eggs looking at your previous post your garden looks beautiful too!
    Sarahx

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  10. Your chicken are fab, will they be moving with you? How cheap is Cath Kidston US, it so not fair..claire x

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  11. I love that box file - it's given me an idea to cover some for myself - love your blog by the way!

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  12. Your box file looks lovely, that wallpaper is one of the nicest she's done, I think. Mr. bloom would be very envious of your chickens, he would love to own some but we don't have the space. Hope you have a lovely Easter,
    Lucy x

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  13. Your garden is just as lovely as your home, and your chickens - beautiful! I long for the day when i have the space for them. (Daydreams for the rest of the evening)
    x

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  14. Hi, check out my blog as there is an award waiting for you...you have a fab and inspiring blog...claire xx

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  15. I love your blog!! Your box and books look so pretty all made over!

    Love your sweet feathered friends. :)

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  16. You've given me an idea there, I have some very shabby boxfiles which I was going to throw, now I know how to bring them back to life, I should have thought of it, seeing as we all used to cover our text books in wallpaper at school. I couldn't ever understand by Miss Dimmock always wore her hair down, the most impractical way to have it for gardening of all things, and the no bra situation wasn't good! You are lucky to be able to have chickens, I would like them one day, I grew up with them on the farm as a kid. Maybe if we get our dream to move out to the country one day? x

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  17. Hi, I just found your blog and thought I'd drop you a line to say hello. Love your chicken house, absolutley lovely.
    Now off to read some of your earlier blog entries, best wishes, Liz

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  18. Oh love your chickens, darling little covered lamps and the old metal watering cans ...Just too cute!!!!! hugs again Patty

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  19. I TOLD you they was organized!

    -Mr. Tweedy (you know the one?)

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  20. Sooooo, my husband and I are sitting by the fire on this cold January night and reading all of your "naughty chicken" posts and laughing till it hurts.

    He just looked up chickens on You Tube on his computer (side by side laptops by the fire, Isn't it romantic?) Anyway, have you seen "Chickens of Fire" and "Chicken Police"? Oh, wonderful! That'll cheer you up on a gray day!

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  21. Oh Geesh, I shouldn't have been lazy and should have put in a link or something! The "Chickens of Fire" that's wonderful is by "catnip mouse".

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  22. I know just the ones you mean katie! chicken police cracks me up every time..naughty bunnies! x

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