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Guess How Much I Love You

was Wee Man's favourite bedtime story book

We used to stretch our arms as wide as we could

when the hare said " this much "

There was something very comforting about Nut brown Hare

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This was a favourite too -

" Raggies " were kept safely tucked in after we read this one !

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Going on a Bear Hunt upset him terribly ...

he felt sad for the bear left in the cave on his own ...

I had to make up a whole new ending !


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These were my favourites to be read to

what were yours ?

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This is for Tracey ( Tracey's crafty scraps )

as she wanted a picture of the sea

Come on Tracey !

Tracey likes dogs and not cats.

Guess what her daughter Amy ( Bubble's thoughts )

has just got ?

Miaw !

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Doesn't like cats ?

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Hide Billy Hide !!!

Three customised bottles

filled with pink bubble bath

for three local friends

( good thing I don't need to post them ! )

Christmas come early ... or is it Easter ?

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LOOK !!!

I am simply over the moon - egg cited & egg- static !!!

I went to clean out the Hen House & look what I found !

I have stopped checking ad I'd given up hope of any eggs 'til Spring

so not sure if it's one hen over three days or three hens.

We had already decided to have omelet tonight and I bought eggs earlier !

Still - will need more than three eggs

WELL DONE GIRLS

it musthavebeen the porridge which they finally ate

because

I added their corn to it !

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EARLIER THAT DAY A TIRED ME WROTE :

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Look at that ! Purr-fect peace. Beautiful Frankie. You wouldn't think she could be so much trouble would you ? Perfect Princess Frankalina. Since her twelve day disappearance and re emergence she has become very greedy & constantly asking for food. I didn't mind at first but now I feel like saying, " it was weeks ago Frankie - Get over it ! "

She gets up on the kitchen units to lick pans & plates which is horrible.

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Bramble or Bim as we call him the old trooper. He lives part time with Margaret over the road who is terribly worried that I am annoyed about this. I'm not. She doesn't feed him or keep him in overnight but he likes to visit and sit with her - so we let him. It's peaceful there. He was most put out when she looked after a friend's dog for a few days !

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Billy. What can I say ? I can say a lot but it won't be allowed on Blogger ! He's a Fat Git. He is incorrigible. I love him dearly.

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All three cats can get in through our bedroom window as there is a single storey roof below. So they do this in the middle of the night.

Frankie manages the best as she is agile. Billy has worked it out by watching the others but he can't actually get in so I have to haul him up or he will sit yowling which is torturous to listen to.

Since Bim had his funny turn he has stopped doing acrobatics.

Frankie & Billy then sit washing themselves in the dark which is annoying too so I let them out of the bedroom. Then they try to wake the teens which is even more annoying so I shut them in the kitchen. ( the cats - not the teens )

By this time I'm muttering, " whose idea was it to get all these Bloody animals ? "

.... " oh yes, it was mine ! "

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I have no idea what to write about today, so...

as it is a friend's birthday tea tomorrow

and she will have a cake stand filled with homemade cakes

I'll ask you...

what is your favourite cake ?

mine is carrot !!!

when I got the hens some of my friends popped in to see them.

They all said they, " didn't DO birds "

... wings, feathers, beaks & claws.

I was cuddling Lucy at the time the big plump Silver Sussex

( secretly my favourite )

and a friend said,

" you are so comfortable with this aren't you Penny ? "

Yes I guess I am

So I would like to know...what is your " comfort Zone " ?

and maybe more interesting....what is NOT ?

" Ok ...where are they ? "

" I'm HUNGRY ! "

( again )

Ruby in CHARGE mode !

" I don't take NO prisoners

HONEY ! "

I think that Billy is a confused cat : confoozed-dot-com that's him. We honestly think that Billy believes he is a dog.

He eats as much as the dogs and... he has taken to sleeping in the porch with them at night. In with the Big Boys Sam & Dill.

He certainly can't catch a chicken and...

he's certianly too fat to fit through those springs.

Frankie could.

Billy has HUGE cheeks like a hamster so I think...

HE HAS A LOT MORE GROWING TO DO

OH NO !!!

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I've been reading about what other hen keepers give their gals... Sue at Our new life in the country gives hers porridge so I tried this morning.

They were confoozed too... as they associate me - mum with hand fulls of corn. I tipped some onto the grass which one trod in & one pecked. So I left them to it and guess who ate the porridge ? BILLY of course !!! That cat !

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I came home to find that MummyMad at The MadHouse has given me an award ! Thank you... I'm really chuffed.

I now have to tell you ten things about myself but as I talk A LOT... you know most of it !!!

I'll give it a go ....

* I bite my nails !

* I want a tattoo of a dragonfly

* I stole a deck chair from Worthing seafront ( I was a student ! )

* I broke my collarbone while completely drunk ( I was young ! )

* I went driving around the Golan Heights in a jeep full of Israeli Soldiers ( Bad Penny's youth )

* I don't drive & never want to learn

* I've had hypnotherapy ( to see if I could calm myself enough to want to learn to drive ! )

* A famous reggae band booked a day charter on the boat I was working on in Antigua but didn't turn up - they'd been deported for having drugs !

* I pretended I was Russian for a day with my friend Natasha

* I spent a whole day with my pyjamas under my clothes

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Thank you MummyMad ...I'll pass this on at a later date