Although not craft related busyness unfortunately!
My boyf’s auntie has been in the UK for a few weeks (she lives in St. Lucia) and yesterday we had to take her to the airport. Up at 3am and in Gatwick at 7am! My boyf had already done the trip on Tuesday (Tuesday was a bad day, I'm not a nice person on 4 hours sleep!) but she had forgotten her handbag and passport so he had to bring her home again. Anyway, it was quite nice as although we’ve met a couple of times, we’ve never had a proper conversation. All I knew about her was she was an artist!
I've been buying a bit of fabric recently. I’m really loving patchwork at the moment so I’ve brought some patchwork pieces from eBay. Two ways of looking at this – it is a bit lazy getting someone to have done the hard work and cut everything out, but on the plus side you get a variety of different fabrics!

The upside of being up at 3am was my boyf had promised to take me to Ikea! I was very restrained and brought a small amount of fabric and a few other bits and bobs, including a play tent for our cats (yes, I know. I'm embarrassed admitting it) which was missing all of the sticks to hold it up with, quite annoying as we're so far away from the store.
Now that we're facing the long nights, I'm hoping to be able to fit some more crafting in here and there.
Thanks for all the lovely comments regarding our new girls! They seem to be settling in well and this weekend, after keeping them separate from our existing girls, we penned them all in to a large part of the garden. All went well, although one of the rocks is trying to make her mark and show them she's top of the flock. A few more days and hopefully they'll be fine and then its just getting them all in the same hut!
PS - As I was in the middle of writing this, the poppy lady came round and commented on how lovely the chickens were and that she was thinking of getting some. Needless to say I took the opportunity to offer her a box of eggs - we're swamped under with them at the moment, and that's just with 5 laying! The new girls aren't quite ready to lay yet!