Author Archives: Carol

It’s so cold that it’s as if we have returned to winter again. It doesn’t seem possible that we recently experienced a mini heat wave. The wind is bitterly cold and we have had lots of rain. The forecast is … Continue reading →

It’s a bit slow news in the chicken run at the moment but that’s not a bad thing. No news is good news as they say. Cinnamon has yet to restart laying after her brief broody moment but all the … Continue reading →

I know I have said this quite often recently but the pulmonaria has taken over our garden so we are buying new plants then digging a clump out and replacing  it with the new plants. This is the girls’ view … Continue reading →

I thought about Sophie’s comment that she doesn’t know which girls lay which eggs like I do and I thought I would demonstrate how different our girls eggs are. I know that if I get more seramas, and I would … Continue reading →

After the problems over the winter it is great to see all the girls looking really good and they are all laying now except Cinnamon who had a broody day recently so will take a break. Freckles only took a … Continue reading →

After the harshest winter for many years we have now had record high temperatures for April. It has felt like summer this week. The garden is bursting with flower. These tulips have been like this for ages just waiting to open. … Continue reading →

Dandelion has now laid three eggs and has laid them every other day which is pretty good going. The first one was the soft shelled egg but the next two have had good shells so I am optimistic that she … Continue reading →

I love these primroses and we have planted them a few times in the garden and have had them disappear. I thought we had lost them all and then we spotted this one appearing through the spring flowers. It is … Continue reading →

I was really, pleasantly, surprised today to find that Dandelion had laid an egg with a good shell. By a process of elimination it must be her egg. Cinnamon has laid two days running, yesterday and the day before, and … Continue reading →

Today we got the veg plot planted. It looks a bit pathetic at the moment but I will take a comparison photo when it has got going. We have early potatoes and main crop potatoes. We have runner beans and … Continue reading →