Author Archives: Carol

Sadly we have only had Rusty for a year. She certainly left her mark though. She was the funniest, feistiest, of characters. She was top serama or top banana as we called her and was always at the front of … Continue reading →

I have been writing this post as I go along so the title has now sadly changed from “Rusty prolapsed again” to it’s current title. The afternoon before yesterday Rusty was in the nest box for a long time. I … Continue reading →

This is, without doubt, our best year ever for courgettes. Our two plants have produced a continued abundance of courgettes and the freezer is full of various courgette dishes while I am still devising ways of using fresh ones several … Continue reading →

Yesterday I gave the girls the last two lettuces from the veg plot. The veg plot is finished now all except the two courgette plants which are still producing, albeit, smaller courgettes. Speckles was too busy playing mother hen and … Continue reading →

The garden is beginning to look autumnal. The berries on the himalayan honeysuckle are lovely and shiny at this time of year. The sedums give a lovely splash of late colour. This aster gives the chicken’s strip a splash of … Continue reading →

I am gradually harvesting the leaves from the veg plot for the girls. I thought I would give them a mix of green and purple leaves and see if they had any preference. What amused me is that the girls, … Continue reading →

On Sunday we saw another baby slow worm on the patio. It was lucky it didn’t get trodden on. We last saw a baby one on the path about a month ago. We always see the big ones in the … Continue reading →

There is absolutely no doubt about the fact that chickens are flock animals. I often see our girls together in a tight group and it always makes me smile. It’s not always easy to get a photo as when I … Continue reading →

We have two annual events which are big numbers. Afternoon tea on our vintage crockery for a hundred and sixty, for a school speech day, and jazz supper for a hundred and thirty. They don’t usually fall on the same … Continue reading →

This time of year there are spider webs all over the garden. The ones I like the least are the ones that I break with my face when I go up to the chickens first thing in the morning. Not … Continue reading →