Author Archives: Carol

For some time I have been frustrated that a corner of the chicken shed has been damp at  floor level after we have had a lot of rain. My husband recently put a wooden overhang on the chicken shed roof … Continue reading →

The only thing left on our veg plot was the courgette plants. They still each had five or six tiny courgettes but they hadn’t grown in the last few weeks so we decided that they were finished. Everything else was … Continue reading →

I never usually do much baking but since I adapted Jamie Oliver’s apple crumble cookies to my own version I have really got into trying them with different fillings. I took my eldest son, Steve, some cookies with raisins for … Continue reading →

Apricot is the only girl that keeps changing her bedtime position. She really seems to prefer being with the bigger girls than with Dandelion and Cinnamon. Emerald didn’t look too happy about being moved from her corner spot and having … Continue reading →

I love seeing Speckles and Cinnamon together. Yesterday they were at the food dish together. Again I noticed the large size of Cinnamon’s feet in comparison to her tiny size. A few seconds later Freckles joined them and moved Cinnamon … Continue reading →

One of my commenters asked for a look around my chicken run. I said I would do a post on it and then didn’t get round to it. I think that comment was over a year ago. Sorry! I thought … Continue reading →

Some of you may remember that I did a post about Little Mouse in the spring. We had been seeing a little field mouse in the garden and on the veg plot. I then started seeing it in the chicken … Continue reading →

We still have quite a bit of colour in the garden. There are the asters and there are a few wisps of late lavender and some yellow poppies still flowering. The rose that I had for my fiftieth birthday was … Continue reading →

Since we have lowered the back perch in the chicken shed all the girls apart from Freckles have roosted there. For the last two nights there has been a slight change in the line up. Apricot broke away from Dandelion … Continue reading →

Earlier this week we changed the perch at the back of the chicken shed. Things never go according to plan and we found that the job wasn’t as simple as I thought it would be. Because we had two parallel  … Continue reading →