Thursday is the day my mum comes over and I go to work at the bf support group for two hours in the middle of the day.  Dad came too this week because it’s school holidays (he works in a school) so he took me and picked me up.  Mum had brought the stuff to make the strawberry cheesecake from Big Cook Little Cook, as requested by the girls, so they made that as soon as I got home.  I also had a shift on the bf helpline after work so I didn’t see much of what was going on during the day with the children - probably lots of playing and fun, I should imagine!  Dad told me that the girls refused to stop picking up the chickens, which is very annoying as they were doing the same on Wednesday.  I’ve now had to tell the children that the chickens need some free-ranging time and they can each pick up each chicken once, and then only if I ask them to, e.g. to help me put them away, and that if they keep doing it, it’s not fair on the chickens and the children will have to stay inside while the chickens free-range.  Worked with Flopsy yesterday (Friday) but not Mopsy so she had to come in .  Hopefully she’ll understand soon and give a bit more respect to the chickens’ rights to forage un-molested!

Friday we went to a friend’s house and hung around there until mid-afternoon.  She’s in the early stages of pregnancy, and I’m in the late stages, so we’re both exhausted and spent the time lying on the sofas hoping the children entertaining themselves isn’t causing too much mayhem wherever they are!  We’d collected one egg in the morning, and came home to two more, so all three chickens are officially laying now