chikkins!

We woke up yesterday to the delightful cheeping of 10 (TEN!!!) chicks - this explains why the dark brown hen has been AWOL for some weeks now. So, we immediately set to to build an enclosure for the chickens - wild dogs are a huge threat. By the end of yesterday 150 feet of chicken wire had enclosed a huge area of land, now all we have to do is build the hen house. We still had 10 chicks again this morning so fingers crossed we don't lose too many too soon.

We also now have the satellite up and running and Osh is now glued to Nickelodeon which keeps him out of the sun. Yesterday he spent most of the morning being Gedeon's labourer (Gedeon is Nicky's Haitian labourer) helping him dig a hole and also helping him fix a flat tyre of the poop truck (the truck that sucks out septic tanks and portable loos who's contents provides the water for teh nursery and the toilets in the house).

I have an appointment to see an optician tomorrow to try and get a replacement set of lenses (lost a contact in a freak accident the other week and can't snorkel with glasses) and tomorrow we also have to go to immigration to get our visas extended.

The other ASTONISHING news is that Osh has slept through the night 2 nights running....this brings the number of such nights since we've been here to a staggering 3 nights. This is about as many as he has ever done since he came out of his cot 3 years ago. Needless to say we are all delighted that we sleep undisturbed until 5.30 when he wakes up (grrrr). I daresay that putting this fantastic development into print will immediately jinx us and he'll not sleep through again for weeks!

Pictures of the house and the chicken enclosure coming soon. I'd love to send a picture of the chicks too but they are very small and move too fast!

Thanks for all your comments - and a big get well hug to the lovely Diane!