Category Archives: Chickens

Yesterday afternoon I made another batch of cookies. This time I split the mix in two again and did half with chopped nuts and currants and the other half with glace, morello, cherries. These are my favourite so far. I … Continue reading →

Despite a few frosty mornings there are still quite a few late flowers in the garden. The frosts have been light and only on the cabin roof rather than ground frosts and none of the plants seem to have been … Continue reading →

Now that the clocks have gone back I am giving the girls their bedtime corn at the earlier time of four o’clock and they are all in the chicken shed by five o’clock. last night I was surprised that Apricot … Continue reading →

All the girls are still moulting in differing amounts. To my amazement Speckles and Emerald are still dropping a few feathers. They seem to have been dropping feathers for such a long time this year. They both stopped laying after … Continue reading →

I have never been into doing anything for Halloween. I do however always buy some sweets so that if any children knock on the door, trick or treating, I have them ready to give out. Last year no children knocked … Continue reading →

On Sunday we did an afternoon tea on our vintage crockery for a birthday party. We have one wedding booked for next year already and another wedding that want to book us but they wanted to come and see one … Continue reading →

When I checked on the girls at bedtime the night before last I was surprised to find them all snuggled up together apart from Freckles. Last night they were in the same positions again. I think this may be the … Continue reading →

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 →