Photos - Yay!!

I have had a play around and fingers crossed my pictures are working!!

Here is a picture of our cat run from the front

 and one from the side

The cat run was originally on the other side of the garden but we moved it when we took down the summer house and DH then extended his shed to include where the cat run was.
We purchased the shed and then DH had a vision of what a cat run should look like and then went and got the wood and after a few days of banging and sawing this is what he created.
People who have seen it thought we had bought it in kit form and just screwed it together. I am not sure how he does it, he doesnt even write anything down.

I am very pleased with the cat run and so are the cats!!


Here is a picture of the top of the garden

As you can see it is very overgrown, the grey patch in the middle is where we had small bonfires until the neighbours behind us complained. The tree in the middle is an apple tree that DH and DD planted from an apple pip 4 years ago, it had been kept in a pot all that time and this year we planted it out and for the first time it blossomed. I guess we have a bit of a wait for apples.

The chicken hut is one we have had a while and DH tarted it up last year for the meat birds. I am not sure where we will move it to yet as we will need it for when our turkeys get bigger but not big enough to go up to the field. We were thinking of dividing the top in to 6 patches for veg growing but the other option is 4 patches for veg and 2 for the hut and turkeys.

I have not managed any more digging tonight, after work I did tea and then we had to collect bread for the geese and pies for the feral cats we have and now I am ready for bed. I am going to read my Alan Titchmarsh book.

Not sure I have mentioned the feral cats before - about 4 years ago DH noticed some tiny kittens up on our field but I was convinced he was seeing things as some days they were there and some days not. After a few weeks they got bigger and appeared more and we realised they also had a mother cat with them. We didn't know where they came from but fed them with the pies from the bakery.

A few days later we went behind our storage shed to move a spare chicken hut and when we opened it up there was loads of cat toys - now these are the first cats I have ever known who left home and brought toys with them!! Clearly they had been dumped but the people must have known we would care for them otherwise why go to such lengths as to bring their favourite things?!

Over time more kittens have been born and as they got older they disappeared and the cycle has continued ever since - we have 4 at the moment and this is also the same number we started with.

At times we fed them proper cat food but not only did this cost a lot of money but it meant more survived and we were over run so we have gone back to feeding them pies/sausage rolls etc and the numbers have kept down with natural selection.

It also means they have to hunt and we have not had rats for over 2 years - they also keep the rabbit population down!

I know the RSPCA would come and get them but too be honest they do a great job and all appear quite healthy. One day I know they will disappear one by one, I assume the fox will get them as they are not tame enough to seek out human company (the only cat that we know that got ill had a huge scab across his eye and a few days later he had disappeared, he had obviously died but how would anyone have been able to handle him if we managed to catch him and take him to a vet?).

No eggs sold today as we did not have enough to put out.