Make over

I wanted this blog to be a cheery place to come, so up to now I have tried to edit any moaning! However, I also want it to properly reflect who I am and my life isn't all sugar and spice!
I hinted on my gastroncnemis hints and tips that since being home all the time barely able to walk I got a little bit in a rut, but on Tuesday I could not remember the last time I put on make up and my hair was going orange!!! I think I hit an all time low this week as everyone was out for the evening and we had a power cut! So there I was, the boiler broken now for three weeks, no electricity, no radio even, no way to leave the house I just huddled over a few tea lights!

It has really surprised me, in my workplace I was nick named "Miss Stylish" as I really enjoyed dressing up for work, now, after a few weeks at home I struggle to wear anything other than jogging bottoms and jumpers. Add to that the fact I clean out the chickens every day and you can imagine what I looked like!

Fortunately my wonderful friend D, conspired with my son, W (a hairdresser) to get hold of me and sort me out! She brought over her whole make-up stash, and did a great make over, and he did a wonderful cut and colour on my hair, here are the results! (I am too ashamed to show you what I looked like before.) On D's advice I am going to Town next week and plonk myself in front of the Bobbi brown counter and try and find some foundation maybe even get some nice tips on my nails!

I had my physio therapy today, despite my wishes that I would be back at work next week, the therapist made an appointment for a week on Tuesday and told me I might just be able to sit in my car and push the pedals by then but not drive! So I won't be back to work as I drive all over the New Forest for my job. However I am very hopeful I have some exercises to do now so I am wishing it will progress soon! We are having a new boiler fitted, (the electricity is being cut off again next week to fix the fault) so lets hope it will all be well in a couple of weeks.

This is actually the third attempt to photograph myself as all the other pics turned out to only feature my eyebrows and the top of my head! Perhaps I need longer arms.

We have eggs!

It has been a glorious day, sunny and warm, I let the chooks out into the garden, they love scratching around. They would be really good at weeding except they don't know the difference between a plant and a weed! We have eggs now! I am like a child on christmas morning, when I go down to peep into the nesting box, finding an egg there! It is wonderful. They now have their own personality, Daisy will do abosolutely anything for corn, and is quite happy to be held and stroked. Edna is the escape artist, always looking round to see if she can find a way out! May has settled in well, following the others, but Dolly is the scary one, she makes awful squarking noises, won't be tempted by corn and generally seems to be a little bad temperd! Still, they are laying and (Dolly excepted) seem to be very happy.

This is Edna scratching around, the problem with trying to take their photo's is that they usally have their faces pecking the dirt and their bottoms in the air! Such a lovely girl!