This last year has been one of great change and includes a move to another country , not only did we pack and move the contents of our house we also transported 4 horses and over 200 poultry and waterfowl to start a new quieter more relaxed lifestyle , please feel free to laugh your socks off especially if you are one of those lovely people who has read my posts on the practical poultry forum if you wish to read these you will find them in the Dust bath section under some days you want to cry at some time in the future i will copy them over for all to read ,

My youngest son and his girlfriend bought a house last June and at that point i really took stock of what was going on in my life , the eldest had already left home the youngest was now gone ,my other half was working in a job he hated ,made even more stress full by the fact that public transport didn't work when he had to , which meant i was then taking him to and from work ,this could then be 3 hours of travel time each day.

I have been treated for back pain and depression for the last 4 years the back pain came first followed by the depression both awful enough on their own but together .... lets say there have been a lot of dark days and some i don't remember and that is where the poultry came in and then took over , at the worst point i had ducks living in the bathroom and chickens in the kitchen ,how my other half and my boy's put up with this is beyond me  (at the time i really didn't see a problem with it )  i am quite sure there were conversations between them about having me sectioned , looking back i would have sectioned me .

The farm i had my animals on in England had given me notice to move off , finding somewhere else was impossible , so in a moment of madness ... which as it turns out wasn't madness at all it was the best thing ever, i suggested we move to Ireland , my long suffering other half's reply was if i could pull it of we would do it .

I am writing this from rural Ireland , in a place we own , with no stress in fact In Heaven .