Chickens and a Lofty surprise!

Our main source of fresh fruit and vegetables comes in on the LAN flight on a Saturday.  Unfortunately, since the end of December, the LAN flight has been full of passengers, meaning that freight has been taken off.  This has meant that we have been short on soft fruits, eggs and vegetables; basically if we can't grow it here at the moment, we can't get it!  As a family we have compensated for the shortage of fresh fruit and veg by substituting it with tinned and frozen, but the eggs have been the real killer.  Until they're not there, you simply don't realise how much you use eggs!  We even made Sky News this week due to the increasing tension with Argentina http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16164445

We had been looking at getting some chickens for a while, so grabbed the chance to get some from a family who were leaving the islands, and were based at MPA.  A quick phone call later and plans were made, and we set off to collect them, or so we thought..... The family we were collecting them from had thought that the chicken run would fit in the back of a 110.  When we got there, it quite clearly wasn't.  Time for Plan B.

Still, we did have time for a chuckle as we drove around MPA.  They are demolishing one of the water towers, and have shipped down a crane from the UK.  Harry decided Bob The Builder must be around, because he had Lofty at MPA.....  I'm not sure if the crane is on long term hire, or has been bought from the company.......

....Crowland Crane Hire!!!!!.....Crowland is where we live in the UK!!

Anyway, Plan B involved borrowing a trailer and going back to pick them up after work one evening.  MPA is around 35 miles from Stanley, but because of the road conditions here, it takes around 45-50 minutes to drive, depending on the road conditions, weather, vehicles.....

Anyway, with the chickens and their house collected, it was time to get them home.

The following morning, Harry was eager to see the chickens, and wanted to check if there were any eggs.  Needless to say, he now wants to check them every 5 minutes to see if there are any eggs.....

Harry is always well chuffed when he finds an egg, and is even more pleased that we can start having cakes again!