2010: looking back

My humble apologies for the lack of recent activity at Fantails and Fibrolite. I have been distracted by a new hobby - idling. After spending much of the last year in intense activity, I have now ground to a halt and have taken up the art of doing nothing.

If you want to have a go at this commendable past-time, click here for inspiration. Alternatively, you could waste a few minutes at least on this page, contemplating what we have achieved and experienced in the last twelve months.

• January - our new crop after last year's grapefruit - chillis
• February - Jasper and Jemima join the household after being rescued by the SPCA
• March - our first ever A&P show - it would be nice to think we could enter something next year but I don't think we're quite ready for that...
• April - more new arrivals - six chicks - a bit noiser than J&J but more productive too
  
• May - huge numbers of mushrooms and toadstools appeared during the first rains of the autumn - we stayed away from the red and white ones but some of the "oyster" mushrooms were fried up, against my better judgement
• June - more signs of autumn
• July - I did it myself! Fed up of clattering the pan lids around the cupboard, I applied some kiwi ingenuity to fix the problem
• August - unfortunately we didn't get any pigs but next door's escapees did amuse us for one evening
• September - great excitement - our first egg!
• October - the truck went down to the woods this month and we learnt a bit about off-road driving - useful for taking old pallets down the hill to the chicken coop to build a run
• November - peacocks prowled around our deck, preening themselves, on a regular basis this year
• December - apart from our visitors, the highlight this month had to be our new arrivals - three little chicks

So goodbye to 2010 and Happy New Year!