Parents evening last night. It's the last thing that I wanted to do at 7pm but duty called and having got there it was rather pleasant hearing good reports about child no 4. Almost makes the last 13 tears of training her worthwhile! As the youngest she has always lacked confidence and spent her life in the shadow of the three elder children she now seems to be coming into her own which is great. She now wants to do and extra GCSE. Good on her. Will write to the school at the end of the week I expect a fight.

Its a bright sunny morning and the weather forecasters tell us that warm weather is on it's way for the weekend. God forbid the BBQs will be out in force. They seem to appear earlier and earlier each year, must be global warming I am sure that the today programme will pick up on it soon and be asking for listeners help with the first BBQ of of the year survey!

In the chicken pen I have noticed that the hens with feathered legs have become clogged up with mud only to be expected I suppose but I will have to wash them. Not sure at this point if I should use the short cycle on 30 degrees or the heavy soil on 60 degerrs will ponder on that during the day.

Well the silver back woke up on fine grumpy form this morning. I can only think that nature has determined that we have progressed to rollover grumpiness. Oh joy! He used to wake up in a good mood, admittedly it wouldn't last for long but it was a brief respite.