Author Archives: Carol

We have had our main patio set for many years. We had it before moving here and it was inexpensive when we bought it so it has done very well. After my husband’s excellent job on sanding and varnishing the … Continue reading →

A couple of days before Marmite started laying again, after her broody spell, I found a soft shelled egg in the chicken shed one morning. At the time I put it down to Spangle even though she had never laid … Continue reading →

Smoke has laid ten eggs in two weeks and has now gone broody again. That means both our best layers are broody together. Smoke is a serial broody and last summer she also laid for two weeks at a time … Continue reading →

Both Smoke first and then Marmite started laying again, a week ago, after they came out of their broody spell. A few days ago Flame went broody. I hoped like Smoke and Marmite that if I tried to break Flame … Continue reading →

I bought two jigsaws from the charity shop before the lock-down. I had been saving them until after my husband had finished the car as I felt that would be when we would need something to occupy us. This jigsaw … Continue reading →

Before the lock-down my husband bought the materials that he needed to sand down the wood on our vintage car and varnish it. The relentlessly wet winter had taken it’s toll on the wood. In the summer my husband sanded … Continue reading →

Smoke has reminded me of Cinnamon lately in that she has taken to digging. I think it may be because I had dug the run over a few days ago, while it was dry, but after a long wet spell. … Continue reading →

Yesterday I defrosted some frozen spinach and mixed it in two dishes of mash. The girls loved it. I wasn’t sure how they would take to it but they picked the spinach out of the mash and wolfed it down. … Continue reading →

On Sunday I gave the girls the last of their spinach. I had stocked up with my chicken supplies but there was no point buying more than one bag of spinach as it doesn’t keep for more than a week … Continue reading →

We are very lucky to have good neighbours. Our newest neighbours next door to us moved in in December and they are a lovely couple of a similar age to us and a refreshing change from the previous neighbours we … Continue reading →