Poorly girl

My fav chicken Henrietta is very poorly =-( She has not been herself for a while. Lethargic and generally not herself. I have wormed her as she had a runny bum, treated her for mites just in case. She was wobbly on Friday so I decided to take her to the vets. He thinks that it is some sort of tummy bug and has given me a week of antibiotics. If this does not work then I think I am going to have to let her go. The thought of that just brings tears to my eyes. I am soooo attached to her. She is such a lovely natured chicken. I have had her since she was a young chick.

On more depressing news, we are still no closer to selling the house =-( The market is getting worse, not better. We are having a builder round next week to measure up and see if our plans to extend are possible. If we do manage to pull it off then i think that when it comes to sell it will be more attractive as it will have a dining room and large playroom. We will only do this if we do not sell by the time our contract runs out. OH and I are really looking forward to our holiday, we need it lol!

My boy....

Vasco. Here are some recent pictures of him enjoying being out in the field with his best friend Oliver. I am really enjoying him.

Facebook

OH and I are addicted to Facebook at the mo. Its crazy. We both go on having a look for friends during the day and then again at night. So far I have found my best friend from primary school, who I have not seen for over 20 years!! I am sooo excited about finding her. We hope to meet up over the children's summer holidays. She has two sons, 9 and 2.5. It only feels like yesterday that we were kids wearing dodgy 70s/80s clothes and playing british bulldog!! I do love the internet =-)

Gardening Therapy

I have just spent the past couple of hours pottering around in the garden, tidying, mowing, de-pooing etc. I am no gardener as I have the brownest fingers and seem to kill every plant in my care!! But as with most things that are OH jobs, he stops doing them and I then seem to adopt them as mine. The therapy has helped this morning as I have spoken to our estate agents.... If we want to sell, the long and short of it is that we need to drop the price again. OH and I are going to chat about it tonight. I must admit I cried a little after getting off the phone, I feel as if everything is against us. The housing market and the Euro *sigh*. Its enough to turn me to chocolate...

On a good note, Olivia turned 9 at the beginning of the month. We got her an iPod Touch (OH idea, not mine) as she was saving for a Nano and a Nintendo Wii and a couple of other bits and pieces. She had a lovely day, apart from having to go to school. Olivia wanted a duck pond cake which a friend makes but I only found out after eating the last piece of it that the poor girl never got to have any. I feel awful, poor thing. We also took her to London to go shopping in Hamley's (its not what I remember as a kid!) and lunch at The Rainforest Cafe. We had a fantastic day. Got a fast train to Waterloo and then a taxi straight to the door of Hamleys. Lunch was a real experience. The restaurant has about 4-5 waterfalls, the ceiling is hanging with plastic foliage and various creatures are hiding about the place. Oh and about every 20 mins there is a thunder storm, thankfully without any rain!! We sat near a huge fish tank and got to watch the fishes over lunch.