Yesterday was a disaster. I didnt want M to be camping out outside wellesbourne market again so arranged to do a different one. Also with the weather being drizzly it would have been a waste of £50 to do wellesbourne I think. Anyway the day was a disaster from waking up. First the alarm didnt go off, we did get up in time but still late. Went off with RAC route plan to find the market but couldnt find it. Even asked a local police car ( or its ocupants and they had never heard of it the directed us to teh street using the RAC route plan but as they said it was just a housing estate and no market. Anyway it was outside Milton Keynes so we decided to investigate MKs market. What a nightmare place. Appologies to all who live there but I hate the place. Every road looks the same. So confusing and no landmarks. Market looks ok but at £48 probably not worth the bother and you have to pay to park as well which at wellesbourne ofcourse you do not. We will stick it out at wellesbourne. So we came home by 10am and decided finally we will get rid of 2 of the 3 remaining leylandii. We roped the tops and cut them in half so they didnt fall into next doors garden. One small branch fell in and nasty old baggage of neighbour says " I saw that". B1tch. Anyway guy next door to her was helping her sort out her garden and gives the branch back to M so at least the B1tch cannot complain to councillor and take photos of it again. AND she has one of our stolen saws! Ofcourse they were taken frm our shed and we cannot prove a thing but the saw has damage in a certain place and is definitely one of ours! So that is possibly our burglar. Talk about doing it on your own doorstep. We have lived in some really dodgy areas over teh years and never has anyone robbed us and no one would do this to their neighbour. Obviously that is why the folk round here are well off ! They do not buy their tools just rob them off their neighbours! So anyway we gets one tree cut donw and move onto the second one. The top comes off ok but lands slightly on the fence doing a small amount of damage but not too bad. It also luckily helps break the fall cos there is a nest with a live baby pidgeon in it.WE have put teh little one into a cage and fed it chicken layers mash mixed with scrambled egg. Do not know what else to do. We cannot return to the nest and if left where it was a cat would get it. Last night I left it off teh ground in a cage and covered with a quilt - part covered incase of frost. Today it is preening and trying to fly but when let out just runs so is not ready yet to leave the nest. The flight feathers seem to have grown since yesterday and according to the internet it is around 22 days old so shoudl fledge in about a week so has a reasonable chance of surviving and flying off if we can keep it fed. I spoke to a wildlife recuer I found on teh internet - based in Nuneaton I think who has given me advice so i just need to do the best I can and get it to grow and fly. the parents live in the garden and are in constant view - probably thinking we are out of order imprisoning their baby. Hopefully tehy will still be around when it can fly so they can take care of it cos once it goes we cannot help the little creature any more really can we?
Then to top this problem Muriel is again ill. Currently living in the kitchen. She was ill last night. She was sitting on the eggs when we got back yesterday and last night she was still there so I brought her inside and gave her food. She didnt eat but spent the night next to the radiator and this morning all the veggies had gone and she was eating. I have tried to put her back in with tehflock but she was just sitting in teh corner of the run. Honestly she was gone less than 24hours but already she is outcast. I will return her after dark tonight - the way you are meant to introduce a bird and hopefully all will be normal again tomorrow. M is goinmg to put the hen house heater back in today so hopefully all will be fine from now on and we also need to build a better home for gwyneth since the converted blanket chest she currently lives in is fine as a summer temporary house but rubbish for winter and has no way to heat it. And yes I am silly and soft and my hens do have heating! Though I am thinking right now that Muriel is just weak and gets ill lots. She will probably still get ill and come in regularly by the looks of it. I had budgies who did this years ago and it used to seem that every 2 weeks-ish we had one of them inside for a day or 2! I feel very guilty now as well about removing the leylandii - though twas stopping us from growing anything - and making our wood pidgeons homeless just as winter draws in. Maybe we should just build a pidgeon loft/ dove cote!And will my baby pidgeon make it?
This is about me finding myself and the story of how I have changed my life, become self employed and how I developed the products which are now my livelihood. Its the story of all the trials and problems and wonders of life that happen. I cannot even think what it would be like to return to the me of 2008 now and altho I am very poor really financially I am so very much happier and quality of life is so much better. And I am closer to being free than ever before in my adult life.
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