Competition Time Draw!

What ho, chaps!

Movietone News has just departed...

Congratulations to the winner! I'll drop you a line so you can receive your ration parcel soon.

Cheerio.

Competition Time!

There'll be blue skies over...

All we hear on the news just lately is doom and gloom about the recession, double-dip recession, depression, recession depression etc etc. It's not like people haven't been through all this before in the past and emerged out the other end ok, albeit poorer and battle hardened. It's enough to make you get your gas mask on and hide away in the Anderson shelter!

I was thinking about thrift the other day when I was shelling out for bags of organic chicken feed and corn. Austerity measures begin at home.

So this time around the competition is for a cracking 1949 reprinted austerity Penguin book to read and a mug to drink your cha out of whilst your doing it. More info on the Competition Page...

Good luck!

Competition Time Draw!

I was all alone on the plot today,doing some rotorvating...

Poo your pants scary!

Chickeny Things...

One of the joys of having a plot of land, rented or owned, is the ability to keep a few livestock. My own modest little beginnings have been the chickens - my chicken gang, who happily (I hope) live in their 'Chicken Villas' in the orchard I planted a couple of years ago.

This time of year, most of them go off the boil a bit and stop laying eggs, start to molt, and generally need a bit of a tonic to keep 'em perky through the tail end of autumn and through the winter.

Hear No, See No & Speak No...

I've recently found a poultry supplier that offers all the chickeny things I might ever need under one roof and is run by a lady who knows her chickeny stuff. No need to wade through anymore dodgy websites or take my chances on ebay - this place has it all and is very competitive pricewise, which is great with a bloomin' worldwide recesion in full swing. The egg money I get from the sale of a few free-range, organic eggs each week buys a big bag of organic layers pellets and mixed corn for the birds to munch on.

My chickens are spoilt. I clean the coops regularly. They have wood shavings laid deep on each coops floor, and have lovely soft paper shreddings in the nest boxes so they're comfy when laying their golden eggs (I'm still working on getting them to actually lay golden eggs).

As I've mentioned in previous posts, I design and build my own coops, but Jacques and his little harem have a bought coop, from ebay, which has served it's purpose but is in need of a replacement now. Plus it has many design defects making it a haven for red mite etc. I haven't seen any, but I'm not so naive to think they are not about.

This stuff is the business...

So today I've been doing a spot of housekeeping for Jacques and his girls by smoking any nasties out of their house, a better way by far of dealing with poultry pests than using chemical sprays. If you keep chickens and like to keep them happy and healthy, check out the Review Shed and see how it's done.

A pack of these babies is also this months Competition Time prize, so check these pages out and keep your chooks happy!

Competition Time Draw!

The first Grow Fish Eat competition draw was conducted today and observed by an official adjudicator (my dog Faith)...

So congratulations to the winner. I'll contact you asap to arrange delivery of your new bit of kit courtesy of Lakeland Bushcraft.

Thanks to everyone who entered. Keep watching as there will hopefully be another fab competition prize soon...

Competition Time!

I've been looking at stuff lately that I use daily around the plot, garden, riverbank and workshop and have started to review some of the products I use or might want to use and that you might find useful too.

I'll try to be utterly honest about the gear I'm sent so you won't waste you hard earned money on crap if you were thinking about investing in any of it for yourselves.

Anyway, first up is 'the pocket knife', a really handy tool that no self respecting gardener, fisherman, fisherwoman or forager should be without. And this one is really good.

Check out the 'Review Shed' and have a gander. There's even one to give away in this month's competition so give it a go. You may well be the proud owner of a new pocket knife!