Ménage a Chook

I thought that I’d mentioned the chickens here, but maybe that was over on Facebook. Some time in the last 8 weeks or so we added three chickens to the burgeoning menagerie that is Chateau Temby. Caroline’s wanted them for quite some time and we finally managed to get around to building a coop and fencing etc and even putting some chooks in it in the hope of one day extracting some eggy goodness.

The local kindergarten had them from chicks and we picked them up for free when they were about 6-8 weeks old or so. Two white, one black that I lovingly refer to as Breakfast, lunch and dinner (I’ve got the names for the next two picked out – first comes fried, then Kentucky).

Now the only problem with free chickens is that no one has been able to tell us if we got the sort that will grow up to be hens or the sort that will grow up to be roosters. Not being much of a chicken sexer myself, I’ve opted for the wait and see approach. If it crows, its off to the zoo for dinner (for something lucky) otherwise, if it lays an egg, it stays.

As they grow, we keep looking for signs. No crowing yet, but the two white ones seem to do a lot of posturing and might just have slightly pronounced combs coming up. The black one doesn’t seem to have that development going on and doesn’t quite seem to be doing the posturing.

Every time that one goes out at night to shut them back in the coop, there the three of them are, up on the roost. White, black white. I think we’ve got a couple of roosters.
Ménage a chook.

Free TV

I’m puzzled. I don’t subscribe to pay TV here in Oz because I figure there’s enough crap for me to watch on the free stuff that I don’t need to pay. Lately though, as I watch free TV I keep seeing this commercial telling me how good free TV is.

I don’t get it.

I mean, what are they trying to do?

If I see the ad, then I am already watching free TV.

If I don’t watch TV, then I’m not going to see it. If they’re trying to attract people that don’t watch TV, they’re using the wrong bloody medium to advertise!

If I watch pay TV, then I’ve already made a decision to pay more than the nothing that I have to to watch what I want and so I’ve already decided that the free content that they’re advertising isn’t good enough for me.

What’s the frickin’ point? It must simply be there to annoy the crap out of me, because that’s the one thing that the ad is successfully doing!

Dressing in the dark

One of the joys of the combination of winter and school holidays is that I practically get dressed in the dark to avoid waking anyone up too much. This morning I did so and because I was feeling lazy, threw a vest on over an unironed shirt (oh the horror) so that I’d hide the wrinkles.

It wasn’t until about 10am that I looked down at the cuff of my sleeve and noticed what appeared to be white paint. Further inspection confirmed the fact that somehow the old shirt that I’d given to Emily to use as a painting smock had made its way back into my wardrobe and worse, in the dark it had made it onto my back!