I am a bit late with this post. Our fabulous climbing rose always peaks for my birthday which was on the bank holiday Monday while we were having amazing hot sunny weather. I took some photos but didn’t get round to putting them on here.
Now of course the heavy and ongoing rain has devastated the rose and we are walking through petals all over the path.
This photo was from our bedroom window before the rose had actually peaked but I forgot to go back and take another. It was lovely while it lasted.
Chicken updates
As usual with broody chickens it’s a case of one in and one out. We had an unusual, five egg day, with Red, Gold, Storm, Ginger and Popcorn all laying. The next day Gold went broody after laying ten eggs in eighteen days. Cloud then came back into lay. Unlike Mango she had dropped only a few feathers, still had a red comb and had started squatting in front of me again, so I knew she was getting ready to come back into lay. She had had a break of eighteen days.
Mango in comparison is having a full moult. She is prickly with pins and her comb is pale. I am not sure she will lay again this year. For once they are not in unison with each other.
A day later Popcorn went broody for the first time. She had laid twenty eggs in thirty days. We now have just Red, Storm and Ginger laying. I don’t know what is happening with Maple as there has been nothing after her, two double yolked eggs, the first in two soft shells and the second a week later in one good shell.
Popcorn and Maple are both just over six months old. I think because Popcorn started so early we forget that Maple should only be starting to lay around now. She will be ready in her own time.
The good thing is we are getting enough eggs to keep us going and we are happy with that.
Click here to see the history of my flock.