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Our second duck Josephine has been very patiently sitting on a nest of eggs for the past month, so it was uncharacteristic of her to be up and about yesterday…

I think she wanted to let us know of her latest arrivals, eight nine ten ducklings.

Meanwhile, our very clucky chicken is a proud foster mum to a young chick.

That brings our numbers up to two geese, seven chickens, and twenty ducks + a cat.

It’s been good so far, but we will cap our numbers at what we have, least it gets unmanageable.
That means collecting any more duck eggs, least they become ducklings…

The bench press is probably the best and most basic exercise to build your chest muscles up.

To build up muscle, you need to push the envelope and lift the biggest weights you can get away with, while still keeping good form.

The problem though, is that if you bite off more than you can chew, you could be stuck with a bloody big weight on your chest.. 

My state of mind and attitude play a big part on what I think I can lift, so the right frame of mind is important.

One solution, is to ask someone to ‘spot’ you, and they stand behind you ready to help. A psychological effect of this though, is that it’s now ‘easier’ to lift that heavy weight, partly because your not worried about ‘what if’.

It means you lift weights heavier than you normally would.

So I find it’s hard to max out on the bench press as a result, but then again, been a naturally cautious person, it’s sort of easier to push the worry of ‘getting stuck’ aside, know that I naturally err on the side of caution.

Lately, our house has gone errily quiet, and my wife has walking around like a lost person with no direction.

Our youngest daughter, you see, has gone on a Scout Jamboree (adventure camp) for a few weeks.
It seems there’s always something happening when our busy daughter is around, so now the atmosphere at home has gone from a never ending busy vibe to a library with no customers vibe.

It’s a bit of a precurser for how 2026 is going to play out for us, because, she is starting University in a far away town.

It looks like we are getting a taste of what it’s like to be empty nesters.