June 16th, 2010 by Rich

The other thing I did last night was to book two nights away in Brussels as a birthday present for Lou. After much fiddling around the cheapest way to book it was to get the Eurostar tickets direct and have them from/to Reading, the hotel was then booked elsewhere. Doing it this way saved me about £75 of train fare to get to St Pancras and back, I still find it odd that the Eurostar website will allow you to book a hotel and train combo but only from St Pancras or you can book the train direct from your home town but not with a hotel.

Not for the first time I found myself questioning why all travel websites are so user unfriendly, surely with the money they make they could invest some in making the websites more sensible!

June 16th, 2010 by Rich

Last night we collected some free stuff from a colleague of mine, she had decided that she no longer required some garden bits. We loaded up the car with three lots of greenhouse staging, a cold frame, a wheelbarrow and a load of pots, quite the haul! This has now made us a five wheelbarrow allotment – the neighbours will be jealous! Mel even gave us  a hand by driving her car with the cold frame in it to save us making two trips, by way of thanks we showed her around our plot and introduced to the chickens. Things to know about chickens part one: if you wear sandals they will peck your toes

June 11th, 2010 by Rich

It’s been a while since I posted anything so to get the ball rolling I thought I would put a couple of videos up. Both are chicken club related, the first is from January when we had a lot of snow and shows us walking to the chickens in a jerky sped up way, the second shows the automatic chicken door opener/closer that I have built.