Last Post

This is our last post on this blog.  We are going to live with Dad and some step-sister chickens.  We hope that they will teach us how to lay eggs again and we will teach them how to be picked up and eat werms from Dad's hand.  Perhaps we will start a new blog at Dad's house ... who knows?!

Goodbye for now!

Fried, Egg and Spoon xxx

What students say 2

OMG, is that why the logo for Twitter is a bird - because they tweet?

What students say 1

Student: Miss, how long is the exam?

Me: One and a half hours long.

Student:  No miss, it's ninety minutes long ....

Spoon's comment on The Apprentice

This morning I was very noisy.  I think if I was on The Apprentice this might get me into trouble because Lord Sugar would tell me to be quiet.  But I always make a good point, so he might listen.

I am not sure how much I can say about today's episode because I don't know if Dad is watching.  I think I will play it safe and try not to give too much away.

The candidates have been woken up at 0615.  This is a lie-in as far as I am concerned.  This morning I woke up at about 0530 and let Mum know.  This was before her alarm went off so I don't think she was very happy about that.

They have to brand a fitness class - 'turning movement into money'.  Some of them are talking about their ideas and sitting on big plastic balls just like the one Dad has.  We prefer the colour of Dad's ball though.  The other group have a competition going for group leader - horse rider versus boxer person (boxer person won; sorry about that spoiler, Dad).  There are some interesting ideas coming out, but I am not going to say which I prefer at this stage.  I can sense that there might be some sore muscles or injuries coming out of some of them though ... or perhaps arguments ... space hoppers!  Cool!

Interesting result.  More than that I will not say ....

Chickens on strike

I think that Fried, Egg and Spoon are in the third row of chickens ...

Not an egg in sight today.  Not even a squashed one!

How to fill in an akksident form

1. Have an akksident.  The kind where you could hurt yourself not the kind where you are a bit late for the toilet.
2. Pick yourself up after the akksident, brush yourself off and get back on the horse that you just fell off when it tripped up when it was cantering.
3. Do some more cantering, and finish the lesson properly.
4. Fill in your details on a form and wait for a phone call the following day to check that you are OK.

Yes, it finally happened.  Mum fell off today, just as she was getting into a lovely canter.  Dougal does tend to be a bit stumbly and did it quite a few times before the big one in the canter.  She thought that she might have held it .... but didn't and ended up on the floor of the arena looking somewhat like a dead fly.

Still, it did mean that her new chaps and gloves were christened quite nicely ...

We think that she might have a bruise tomorrow!

Fried, Egg and Spoon xxx

We didn't know that jelly babies could play bagpipes

... but apparently they can.

Although not well enough to be put through to the next round of BGT.

Perhaps we could give it a go?  We are already three different colours and we could call ourselves 'The Pipe Chickens'.  We reckon that we could work out the pushing and puffing OK - they already look as though they are pretending to be chickens anyway.

Fried, Egg and Spoon xxx

There is something strange in the garden

Mum and Dad brought it back with them from being away for Christmas (yes, this weekend; yes, we know that most other people don't celebrate it then and yes, it did snow - for real).

iSpy

Mum's new toy; iPad.

We can play at that too ...

We think that Mum should get the app; it will help her understand us a bit more ...

Fried, Egg and Spoon xxx

P.S.  Should that be weSpy since there is more than one of us?

Fried's comments on The Apprentice

Sorry that I am so late in writing.  We did watch it on Wednesday night, and watched the Fired programme yesterday.  But we have been quite eggcited about seeing Dad again, and that's why none of us have written anything on the blog.  He watched with us as well, but kept falling asleep, silly Dad.

So what can I tell you about my thoughts...  They kept referring to something called 'shabby chic'.  I thought that this was some kind of small French hen, but couldn't see any birds anywhere.  I was a bit disappointed to say the least.  They also talked about 'upcycling'.  Again, their use of language seems to be flawed.  There were no hills, or bikes, to be seen anywhere.

I'm not surprised that the 'Leaf Crew' lost the challenge (I'm allowed to say who lost now because Dad saw the programme at the same time as us); legs falling off furniture and that awful painting seems to have sealed their fate.  We could have done better with the painting, and we have trouble holding paintbrushes.

Mum cleened the dekking four us ...

... so wee are sunbaything.

Fried, Egg and Spoon xxx

Happy Days

Another new horse!  Mum's on a roll.  Today she had ..

No, hang on a minute, there's something wrong here ...

That's better!  She was riding Fonzie ... who is a little less scary than he looks in this picture!  He did seem to wonder off into the other half of the arena a bit, but Mum sorted that out and they were cantering nicely by the end of the lesson.  As usual, he enjoyed the polos that Mum has stashed in her pocket at the end of their session.

Fried, Egg and Spoon xxx

Typical holiday weather!

So we have been hiding under the bbq all day.

Fried, Egg and Spoon xxx

So cute that you want to own one

Wee lyke sossages

So while Mum was eating our eggs for breakfast we were eating the leftover sossages from her tea last night.  Yum!

She wasn't so greedy that she had 12 for tea!  She only cooked six and had three which meant one for each of us this morning.

Fried, Egg and Spoon xxx

Bogdan is arrive

Hello my name is Bogdan.  I am arrive at my new habitable.  Here there are eggbirds.  It smells of clean here.  It has been told to me that my new mumownerperson has been clean the habitable.

I am schoolmeerkat of Meerkovo.  This habitable is good place for me because my new mumownerperson is teachermeerkat.  I am looking forward to meet the dadownerperson.

Egg's comment on The Apprentice

So ... condiments.  As long as they don't suggest that it goes well with chicken, I don't really mind what they do!

Of course the funniest part is always when they are making their product and have to wear those lovely hairnets ... even the boys!  Nick looks particularly fetching!  Perhaps we could get some of them to protect our combs in the winter?  I wonder if they do them in different colours?  We could get them in a nice green shade to match our house.

One red product, one yellow.  More than that I cannot say for fear of giving the game away to Dad ... nor will I say which one I prefer ...

Mum has blisters

They're a bit like the ones that Dad gets after he has been playing lots of golf.  She got hers from the screwdriver ... but the new bathroom cabinet is complete and hasn't fallen apart ... yet!

Why does it always rain just after you have cleaned the windows?

So yesterday I spent quite a lot of time hanging out of the windows so that I could clean the outside of them.

And today it rains.

The droplets on the window look very clean ...

The Magic Roundabout

No that's not Mum's riding style.  It just seems to sum up her lesson for today.  To start with, it was all change with her instructor ... AGAIN.  Her last one seems to have left, although people weren't entirely sure about that.  So she had Nicky, on her first day as an instructor!  And then, she had another new horse - Dougal - who was pretty awesome.

Today she came home with a big smiley face which we know means that now Dougal is her favourite.  She was really enjoying her cantering and also did some little jumps ... all good stuff!  She is looking forward to Dad coming to see her lessons soon.

Fried, Egg and Spoon xxx

Excite news, the meerkat toy has arrive in UK

This will be funs for chickens to play with before Mum finds out to put in her transportation.

Mum's home!

And it's the holidays!

This cartoon is for you Dad ... :)

Fried, Egg and Spoon xxx

Spoon's comment on The Apprentice

I've just seen a kettle with a bird on the end of the spout!  Shame it wasn't a chicken ...

Today they have to design a household gadget, which can be used in the house or the garden.  I am pretty sure that there are lots of useful ideas that they could come up with that would amuse chickens in the garden when their Mum and Dad are at work.  I bet you they don't come up with anything like that though :(

I don't think I would like to be on the girls' team.  There is definitely a level of bitchiness going on already and we are only five minutes in.  The faces on some of them!  Did I mention the faces?  The 'look, I'm sucking on a lemon' expression seems to be a common one this episode.

I'd like to be in the boardroom.  I think I would be able to peck at the others to get through to being The Apprentice.

Wee lyke sereeal

Mini honey weetabix to be precise.

Velociraptor asks ...

Dressage

No, not how old Mum's wardrobe is ... but ...

Obviously this is not Mum, but this is what she was working on today, doing what she calls posh riding!  She had Narnia again today and it seemed to go really well; even her instructor said she was showing off!

Fried, Egg and Spoon xxx

The Blue Man Group asks ...

Britain's Got Talent ...

... we'll see!  It starts again tonight so we are looking forward to seeing what there is on offer.  To start with there are the judges ...

A new line-up again.  Shame, we liked Michael McIntyre, but we think that David Walliams will be funny.  We're not sure what Alesha Dixon is wearing though.  It looks like she has been to her gran's house and nicked the curtains, bedding and trims and made them into a dress.  Amanda Holden looks a little bit better, although we think she might have been onto the Merlin set and nicked the chain mail to make her dress.

Fried, Egg and Spoon xxx

Fried's comments on The Apprentice

"Enthusiasm is caught ... not taught."  Does he mean like a disease or a ball?  Surely it can't be the first, because that is really not a good thing at all.  You have to get medicine or go to hospital if that happens.  So it must be the second.  You're in a bit of trouble if your spatial awareness is limited though.

I'm a bit disappointed in the comments that have been made so far ... perhaps there will be more next week?

More for us to comment on ...

... The Apprentice starts tonight!  Obviously we are not allowed to reveal any spoilers because we know that Dad might not be watching it until later.  But we are looking forward to making lots of deep and meaningful comments on the candidates and what they are doing.

And here is one to start with ... Lord Sugar: "I am not looking for a friend ... I am looking for a Marks to my Spencers."

Fried, Egg and Spoon xxx

So wrong ... but so true ...

Cooking the Mahusive Egg

Ready to crack ... next to normal eggs.

Mum took a picture of what came out but then pressed a button and it disappeared and she didn't realise until it was too late ... muppet!

There was one egg inside another egg and it made what you can see above (the top yolk comes from the outside egg and you can see the freshly cracked inside egg on top).

One egg inside another one.

Weight of egg before cooking was 160g.  

And Mum thinks that there might have been another one later in the week, but we sat on it and cracked both the outside and the inside egg.

She still hasn't figured out who laid it!

Fried, Egg and Spoon xxx

Wee downt need no edookation

... but Mum did this weekend.  She left us lots of food and water and a new cabbids while she went to the

She came back with a trolley load of stuff including bugs.  She said that they were not bugs that we could eat though; apparently they are all fluffy, so that was a bit disappointing for us.  Apparently they look something like this ...

Fried, Egg and Spoon xxx

P.S. We decided to go on strike while she was away and did not lay any eggs ... after that big one earlier in the week we think we are allowed to take time off.

I think a dinosaur has moved in with the chickens

Either that or someone has been storing up their egg production to create something mahusive ...

They were all walking normally when I got home ... and the dinosaur was invisible ...

How to get a wardrobe moving ...

... and a big smile on Mum's face!  She came back very excited today.  She was riding Narnia again, who as we all know is not known for her supreme speed (see 31/08/11, 28/09/11 and 26/10/11).  However, for some inexplicable reason, she found speed.  She also found what is known as a smooth transition from trot to canter.  She also found her feet and kept them in the right position.  She also got Narnia to keep cantering for more than just a few paces.  Without holding onto the saddle.  She really was very excited about the whole thing.  We would like to say that her singing for joy in the shower leaves something to be desired but we'll let her off on this occasion.

Hopefully she can keep it going.  The riding success, not the singing.

Fried, Egg and Spoon xxx

So we are loving the weather!

We have been doing lots of sunbathing this weekend and have been making lots of noise in the garden to let Mum know that we are around.  It's been very lovely ...

Happy Birthday Dad!

We love you!

You can guarantee that if Mum had done this with werms this morning there would not be any left.

Fried, Egg and Spoon xxx

Eggs, Schmeggs

Maybe we'll lay, maybe we won't.  Yesterday we laid two, today we laid none.  Tomorrow, who knows ...

We thought this picture was quite funny.  Mum didn't create it because she hasn't got enough eggs ...

Fried, Egg and Spoon xxx

Another new teacher to impress ...

Mum had another new teacher today - her old one moved teaching evenings, so she had to go through the drills to make sure that she was up to scratch for the new one.

She says that she think she did OK; lots of walk/stop/walk/trot/walk transitions and she got a bit of (unintentional) cantering in there as well.  Her new teacher is quite tough; she will have to watch her feet though, she's hot on feet!

Fried, Egg and Spoon xxx

When the sun is out the chickens will play ...

Hail the cleaner

How is it that at the precise point I start cleaning the decking and the patio it starts hailing?

So I keep going through it because it needs to be done and I think the inclement weather is likely to keep going.

And the precise moment that I get back indoors, it stops and the sun comes out.  Gloriously.

At least it will dry out the nice CLEAN decking ... while I am inside drying myself off with a towel ...

The things that Mums do for their chickens ....

When is a chicken like an alarm clock?

When she is called Spoon.

It's Saturday.  It's time for a bit of a lie in.  It's about 0630 and the alarm clock is turned off.

For Spoon, the concept of a lie in does not exist.  She wants attention.  And she wants it NOW.

Lie in over.

Look what arrived today!

We are very excited because we know that it is full of ...

We will gobble them all up!

Fried, Egg and Spoon xxx

How simples it is to find meerkat?

Simples!

What does Mum do?

She found a helpful diagram that seems to sum it up nicely ...

What we want to know is why are there no chickens in any of the pictures?

Fried, Egg and Spoon xxx

Mum's getting a complex

They're changing her riding instructor again.  Just as she was getting used to the last one ... Prima today and working on the Serpentine; a bit like doing a figure of eight on a motorbike but different.  Mum found a diagram ...

She was late back from work today because of a meeting so she can't report on the egg situation until tomorrow ...

Fried, Egg and Spoon xxx

Do hippos have more fun than chickens?

It all depends on whether you think being this close to an alligator is fun or not.

Ham and Eggs?

Ham, yes.  We love ham.  Mum found some in the fridge and gave it to us as a treat.  Spoon made those funny noises that chickens make when they are really happy while she was scoffing it.

Eggs, no.  We appear not to have laid any today.  Or at least none that Mum can collect.  Only soft shelled ones, including one from Fried on the patio that we ate up after she laid it.

Perhaps there is a correlation between treats and eggs.  We know that too many treats means that we lay more softies.  But not enough treats just isn't fair.  But we also know that we get less treats when Mum is at work, so we aim to return to normal egg laying tomorrow, or perhaps the day after ...

Fried, Egg and Spoon xxx

Simples

Mum is having the organisation and is arranging the new insurance for her motor vehicle.  It has been simples and she is looking forward to the receiving of a new meerket toy when her insurance is starting.  It will looks like one of this.

For chickens it is even more simples.  We do not have the transportation and so we do not need to be organising any of the insurance.  

But Mum says that they also do the insurance for the houses.  So we wondered if we needed to get the insurance for the house for the chickens.  Maybes it is already arranged under the insurance for the house for the peoples.

So we will go and lay the eggs.

Simples.

Fried, Egg and Spoon xxx

You know it's the start of the weekend when ...

... Mum comes home in time to say goodnight, and give us grapes.  Mind you, she wasn't very happy because we hadn't laid any eggs today ... maybe tomorrow?!

Fried, Egg and Spoon xxx

A new scientific equation

Light + chickens = noise

+

=

                                          

Why are Mum's pancakes the best?

Because they are made using Egg's egg of course!

With lemon and sugar.  Anything else is just wrong ...

Fried, Spoon and Egg (proud layer) xxx

Penny for your thoughts

Another new horse for Mum today, who has come back mentioning that she has discovered some new muscles that she didn't realise she had.  Penny seems to have been putting her through her paces doing some preparation for jumping, including standing up in the stirrups as Penny was trotting round the arena.

Penny likes polos apparently.  We don't think we would like them so much because they are a bit crunchy for us.

Fried, Egg and Spoon xxx

Another benefit of half term

Mum gets to spend more time with us :) unfortunately half term comes to an end today so we will see her less when she goes back to work :(

Fried, Egg and Spoon xxx

One of the many benefits of half term

Home made pancakes (courtesy of my best friend Victoria) (using Spoon's eggs) with bacon and maple syrup with fresh coffee from one of those funny machines that George Clooney advertises (but it isn't, it's a better one than that) and a general sense of well-being and relaxation helped massively by a bottle of champagne and face masks last night.

Mum's flowers

Yesterday when Mum got home, there were some lovely flowers waiting for her.  She made happy gurgling noises like Egg does when she gets werms.  She especially liked the little diamond heart in the middle of the rose ... it's all sparkly!

Just a thought, Mum.  Those leaves look quite nice, so when the time comes that the flowers don't look so nice any more, perhaps we could have them to nibble on?

Fried, Egg and Spoon xxx

Happy Valentine's Day

Mum has a happy face ... again

We think it might be something to do with Jenson.  He and Mum got on so well that he went straight into canter when Mum asked and then kept going for a whole circuit round the riding school.  No neck strap, nothing!  Next week her teacher says that they might try some jumping :)

We are hoping that a happy Mum will mean that we get some more real worms tomorrow.  She went to get us some mash today and brought some back as a treat.  We are pretty sure that there were more worms in the bag than she gave us ... we hope that they haven't escaped in the fridge!

Fried, Egg and Spoon xxx

Mum has a happy face

... because it's ...

Fried, Egg and Spoon xxx

It might be cold but ...

... it's getting lighter.  Therefore Mum spotted us this morning as we snuck out of the house.  Luckily she had put some werms out for us which we very much enjoyed gobbling up as she left for work.

Fried, Egg and Spoon xxx

You know it's cold when ...

... even our cabbids is frozen ...

We would like to point out that this is not actually our cabbids.  But we thought it was a very pretty picture so that's why we have posted it.

Fried, Egg and Spoon xxx