Well anyway she used it once with unsatisfactory results, I sighed and life went on until Wednesday night when she ran into the front room with a small yellow thing attached to some shell, handed it to me and told me to keep it warm, more followed and eventually eight little
Lurker: Quiet!!!!!
Chick Horde: Cheeeeeeeppppp!!!!!!
Lurker: What now?
Chick Horde: Cheep!
Lurker: I've just done your hot water bottle!
Bastard Horde: Cheeeeep!!!!
Lurker: Mummy will be home soon, get back under the fleece and keep warm!
Fecking Horde: Cheepppppppp!!!!!!
Lurker: No, I'm not holding you and would you please shut up, you've driven the fecking dogs out of the bottom floor of the house. (The dogs have taken to eyeing me with contempt and with the notion it's my fault and if I don't do something soon there will be consequences...!)
Chick Horde: Cheeeppppp!!!!!!
Lurker: Your making Daddy cry........and twitch (I can still hear them now and I'm at work!).
BASTARDS!!!!!!!!!
.....and some Wargames Foundry Orcs!
Serves you right for pissing off Anne
ReplyDeleteIan
She has apologised!
DeleteMaybe I should write an apology blog....
DeleteNo!
DeleteHaha...there is a voice inside me that tells me you are actually enjoying your new role? Embrace it! Then in 10 months time eat them.
ReplyDeleteLoving the orcs - very characterful
ReplyDeleteDaddy loves his little pals really!!!!
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid I was tasked to take care for a box full of little yellow bastards. We also found out later that they were from the wrong batch of eggs, and so grow up not as common egg-laying hens as we were expected but as massive 70 cm tall beasts - and the males were even bigger - they were from a pet breed so laid almost no eggs and behaved like raptor dinosaurs.
ReplyDeleteOn the bright side, you can tell your friends you have tens of chicks which cry because they miss you...
Karma, Fran, karma. It's come back and bitten you on the ar** for insulting our Anne! ;)
ReplyDeleteNice orcs :)
Kiss my karma, Anne apologised.
DeleteGreat figures and LOL have fun being a daddy cheep cheep
ReplyDeleteNice Goblins, thanks for not painting them grass green. And I didn't take you for a chicken guy, my General.
ReplyDeleteThey look sooo coooll! And the duck conversation was pretty funny too!
ReplyDeleteWell done on the orcs Fran and get some ear plugs for chicks.
ReplyDeleteChristopher
Are you planning to feed the chicks to the Orks?
ReplyDeleteAwww, how cute!
ReplyDeleteIt reminds me what happened when I let my wife loose with 'livestock':
My boss who owns a 'hobby farm', asked one day if I wanted a weened lamb (alive), to take home and grow up to then, well you know, turn into sausages or whatever... We've got an acre lifestyle block so plenty of grass for it to eat...
I was unsure but phoned the misses, and she said yes (I was a little surprised)
So home with me it came in a box, baaa-ing all the way...
I then had to make pen / shelter for it, and fashioned something quickly out of some left over wood and wire from other projects...
Of course I don't know why I bothered as that night she had it in the house with us... baaa-ing ... it was barricaded in side of the family room that has lino floor, behind a wall of chairs and cushions... and it stood and pee'd everywhere, and completely freaked out the cats!
This state of affairs lasted 2 days till I took it to local 'petting farm', where we were allowed to visit it whenever we wanted and watched it grow to adult. So it dodged the sausage machine...
Lesson to all, don't trust your female with any 'livestock' as they instantly become 'pets'!
She also wants a kuni kuni pig! I said NOOOOOOOO!
So Fran just watch where she decides to keep these little buggers or you'll have chickens running through the house! ;-)
As for the geese, yes we have a breeding pair just down the road which just about attack the car as you drive past.
Nice orcs by the way - very Foundry!
Too late my friend!
DeleteDoes that make you the surrogate chick father?
ReplyDeleteOrcs look great!
Chicken Whisperer!
DeleteIts amazing that even with how cute they are, they look much better deep fried and covered in spices. I say you use that thought to keep you calm. It's not like you can imagine them naked. Then you'd be weird.
ReplyDeleteIf you sell those Orks I' might be interested in buying them, but only if they're going cheep . . . .
ReplyDelete:O))))))))))
That's awful.....awful!
DeleteIts good of you to let us finally see the soft side. Now you need to invest in a airgun so you can pimp up those chicks.
ReplyDeleteNice orcs as well.
So have you named them all yet?
ReplyDeleteShe will!
DeleteHaven't had chickens for a long while but I remember them being silly. My grandparents had some before moving into a flat. Geese on the other hand, an old lady in our neighborhood has a dozen and when our dog starts barking at them I always ask it 'do you not fear your life'?, the geese being twice its size.
ReplyDeleteLivestock aside, the orks are great, the red colors suit'em well.
Cheep!
ReplyDeleteStop it!
Deletegreat story! I like how you did the orc flesh...looks great!
ReplyDeleteWe had three of them in our home office last year, being kept warm (and this is in Oz. In the summer). The noise wasn't too bad, but oh, the stench.
ReplyDeleteA year on they are bloody good little egg-layers and quite passable pets. But they live outside ;)
ah I see... this is why farms were invented to keep the chickens out side.
ReplyDeletegreat work on those Orcs Fran. and sorry for threatening to puss you down the worlds longest water slide... unless you'd want to go down, I think were still up for pushing ray down. of coarse you'd go first as to avoid and nasty smells left by Ray
I love chickens and have a collection of chicken related stuff - crockery mostly, but they do not make any noise! Great post!
ReplyDeleteGreat orcs! The sculpts have lots of character and a great paint job.
ReplyDeleteMy vote for chick names- Fried, Gumbo, Linguini, Soup, Dumplings,.. ;)
One bloke with his hands on ten chicks and you complain ?
ReplyDeleteDo you now wear a white suit and stetson and should we call you Colonel ?
You know what would be sooooo cool? Orcs vs. Chicks! On the table top. My money's on the orcs!
ReplyDelete...but not the geese!
DeleteJust in time for Easter, they will make good eating. Cool Orcs
ReplyDeleteThis is just so cute, you and baby chicks and they call you Daddy too.
ReplyDeleteThank you for posting the Orcs and forgiving me for my stupidity. Hey, could you tell us what colour green you used on those boys?
Methinks I owe you a very public apology :)
You don't and I believe it's an olive drab but it's been a while and I'm not sure.
DeleteCool figures and have fun with the birds :)
ReplyDeleteNo surprise chicks being noisy, but complaining about a horde of em? The shame!
ReplyDeleteHahahah good post, you thought a zombie horde was bad !
ReplyDeleteWill swap fudge for free range eggs!
ReplyDeleteThey are beautiful, nice colors and look very aggressive ...I'm talking about orcs...
ReplyDeletePhil.
Ha nice! Am glad my wife is not that interested in animals.. dont know what i would do in your place. But i really like the orcs there mate... looks great!
ReplyDeleteIf they're thatannoying set the orcs them.
ReplyDeleteNot the first time you´ve been kept up all night by a group of chicks eh? :-D
ReplyDeleteSorry about the chicks keeping you up asll night. The orcs though look great, nice colour scheme
ReplyDeleteWhatever you do, don't name them!!!!
ReplyDeleteWhy do i have visions of the Orcs charging shouting Cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeppp!!! as a warcry ahhhh!
Chirpy, chirpy, cheep, cheep!
ReplyDeleteFantastic post, Fran.
HARHARHAR! I always knew you were a bit of a chick magnet Fran.
ReplyDeleteGood looking ladz, fierce and meaning. Congrats.
ReplyDeleteVery dangerous beasts, and I´m not talking about the orcs...
ReplyDeleteYou have now your own "Golden Horde".
Fantastic post!
Very realistic, those chicks! :D
ReplyDeletePoor Dogs How do they cope LOL
ReplyDeletethose orcs looks like something out of a dream I had....back when I actually remembered my dreams that is.
ReplyDeleteI find Orcs great when you need someone to plough your garden :)
ReplyDeleteAt least there is no diaper changing. Or just feed them to the orcs.
ReplyDeleteGood God Fran what have you done, tons of clicks and given to you by the misses too. Great Ooks there too.
ReplyDeleteGreat job on those orcs! And you did way better at tolerating those loud fuzzy yellow fecks than I would have.
ReplyDeleteThose orcs are too colorful to look mean. One of the close-up shots looks like the orc uses chicklets for teeth.
ReplyDeleteOh Fran, it's verifiable now... you're so HOT, chicks are crawling at your feet... throwing themselves at you... screaming out in desire...
Maybe not.