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Blackberry

Chris — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:51:13 +0000

I have had a new mobile from Virgin. It is a Blackberry Curve and is a bit more complicated than my old one so it will take a bit of getting used to.

Digital Camera – Fujifilm FinePix S1500

Chris — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:02:28 +0000

Rob has bought a new digital camera. It is a Fujifilm FinePix S1500. It is mainly for use at speedway meetings, which is one of his passions, but I am hoping for more photographs of the family, the animals and the allotment.

Mantis 4-Stroke Tiller

Chris — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:51:48 +0000

My surprise gift to Rob this year is a Mantis Tiller. Hopefully this will alleviate the backache he gets when digging over the beds at the allotment. I bought it direct from Mantis online. I will do a follow up post about this when we have put it to the test.

http://mantis-uk.co.uk/home.asp

Update – Well the Mantis did everything we expected on the plot but what we didn’t expect was for it to be stolen when the plots were raided by thieves. They even took our spade and fork.

Christmas Surprise – Sansa Fuze

Chris — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 10:42:21 +0000

My son Glenn bought me a nice present for Christmas this year. A Sansa Fuze. He had downloaded a few books by my favourite authors and I can now lie with my eyes closed and have a story read to me, bliss.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_w_h_?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=sansa+fuse&x=12&y=12

(update – he seems to have started a trend, now my partner, Rob, my sister-in-law Jan and my Sister Cath are all to be seen wired for sound.)

Hey Big Spender!

Chris — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:54:45 +0000

We finally decided to invest in an incubator and went for the RCOM20 from P&T Poultry. Our savings have taken as much of a battering as the allotment this week as we have also bought some plastic tubing and some netting to build a tunnel.

On Tuesday morning I checked on Pecker, who was initially sitting on three duck eggs and six Wyandotte eggs, and she was down to three intact eggs. I took the last three from her and popped them under Misty, our other sitting broody. The hatch is due next Tuesday 1st April. The first try we had this year was with some Silkie eggs and the broody ate them and then with what happened with Pecker’s clutch we decided not to risk any more eggs.

I have sixteen eggs here now. They are a mix of Silkie and Pekin so we are hoping for more success with the incubator.

We popped down to the plots today even though it was blowing a gale down there we managed to dig over a couple of beds ready for planting up.

How could we tire of hope?
- so much is in bud. Denise Levertov