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Chooks, garden & plans.....

28/8/2013

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The girls have been laying well. Love having ‘home grown eggs’ to use especially for the classes. A friend in Canberra - Sarah, would provide us with eggs from her girls and she taught me the great idea of writing the laid date on the shell. 
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Clever girls dating their eggs!!!!

Of course this always creates comments from others – “how do we get them to lay with a date on them???” Derrrr……Humour is subjective – isn't it? :-)
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Tezza with Delphinium visiting me at the back door!


While Andrew and Andrew were visiting for a few days over the weekend, I was able to use some of the eggs and visit an old favourite recipe of scrambled eggs, made the way I learnt by watching “the two fat ladies”. Recently endorsed by watching the Heston Blumenthal method of scrambled eggs. It is simple – put the lightly whisked eggs in a bowl over a saucepan of boiling water or top layer of a double saucepan. Lots of cream, butter and seasoning as desired. Let the eggs “scramble slowly”. Takes a bit longer to do it this way but the delicious result is so worth it.

Andrew and I spent some precious time together in the garden and planned the re-design of a couple of garden beds. Sadly, some very nice looking flowers (alstroemeria and cobra head lilies) have mutated into noxious weeds by overtaking a couple of beds and the only way to control was to do a drastic clearing. The upshot of this is that I can have a re-design. Of course, there will be new roses and I think the opportunity to install some sculpture and creativity. I love obelisks – so that is a very satisfying compensation to having a “clean out”.

We also spent some time planning holidays while we were mooching around in the garden……..dinner in Budapest next July? Yep, sounds like a plan!

Spring is just around the corner and lots of new recipes happening, so - Happy Flowers and Happy Tastings!!!

DC xx

 

6 Comments
Phoebe
30/8/2013 06:41:35 am

Would love the room to have chooks love the sound in the yard and their quirkiness!

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Debra
30/8/2013 07:03:20 am

Hey Phoebs, they are so good to have.....the eat everything - the only thing they have rejected so far are old prunes !! They have a wonderful house and live in the same 'estate' where Max lives and they are great neighbours! DC x

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Sarah Paradice
30/8/2013 07:47:51 am

Your eggs look a great deal cleaner & far more neatly labelled than ours! When the girls really crank up their laying its a great way to monitor use of eggs, older ones ok for cakes, freshest for those poached eggs!

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Debra
30/8/2013 07:57:09 am

Who would have thought that this would be our legacy of time together Sarah? YES, my girls do lay cleanly ... rather proud of there habits ! every day when we label I think of you and what a fabulous trick it is. DC x

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kim
31/8/2013 03:57:26 am

A bit disappointing, our neighbours city chooks have been training with bar codes. Laying eggs with special flat spots so the code reader works.
Yes quirky is right, you can sit and watch them all day, and yes they eat just about anything.
Love the sounds when an egg is about to be layed.
The four girls over the fence will fight over meat, especially chicken, they forget the vege's if they can gnaw on a relative.
Have seen a wonderful book with some brilliant chook houses, it's like mansions for rich and famous chooks.
I think the latest "Sanctuary" magazine has some houses in it too, sustainability/housing section of news agent.. .......k

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Debra
31/8/2013 06:54:58 pm

Hi K, Yes we have seen the book. Some of the ideas in that book helped inspire the design of the Villa de Maison that our girls live in. Great book! DC

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