Last year I plastered the downstairs corridor and painted it. It’s in 3 different sections, 3 shades of blue. I had lots of dark blue paint left from the bar so thought I ought to use it.
It’s good to get lots of pictures up. I love seeing our friends and family so regularly. I pretty much emptied my photo albums.
In some places you can see my plaster patching but it still looks better than it did so it will do for now 
I’m ashamed of myself for posting so intermittently here. Twitter and Pinterest are to blame Anyway, no need for excuses. I’ve been doing stuff around the house over the last year. Here’s the front hall now.
I fell in love with some fabric and went mad making a curtain and cushions. The fabric pattern and colour just makes me feel happy every time i see it.
Anyone who has ever visited and seen our front hall dumping ground will notice what a huge difference this is
That’s Al’s rowing machine.
We were down to 3 girls and 4 boys in the hen house. Not good. That’s counting Jill Halfpenny who is hopping around on one leg. It was time to do something about it. We wanted to get more bantams but that’s not so easy around here. We took a trip to Dookinella on Achill Island and now have 6 new girls. One is a bantam and the other 5 are normal sized. They are huge by comparison. Twice the size of our roosters . One of our new hens is an Araucana or at least in part. She lays green eggs!
The new girls with one of our roosters who's trying hard to get in their good books. Trudi looks on.
The Araucana on the left has a beard. I'm thinking of calling the one on the right Pavlova.
Poor Jill Halfpenny is probably not long for this world. With all of the excitement yesterday she decided to take a trip outside. I thought I would capture her and her lovely whiskers before it's too late.
Here's Jill again next to the new Araucana. She's very small by comparison but very dignified.
Green egg!
Hello and Happy 2012! Hope you had a wonderful festive season, whatever you were celebrating.
We went the whole hog when decorating this year as we had our lovely niece and nephew here with us and their mother, Al’s sister Samantha of course. The place looks so bare without the twinkly lights and decorations now we’ve taken them down.
So that I can remember where everything goes to get the same effect next year, I’ve taken some photos of our sitting room. You can click to enlarge:
It’s always so exciting when the helicopter comes. I’ve mentioned it before so I won’t go on! Just wanted to post some pics of it taking equipment over to Achill Beg. It was a lovely sunny day.
