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Waiting For Eggs To Hatch

Waiting For Eggs To Hatch

I am sure you have heard of the expression, watching paint dry. It is a boring, thankless activity which demonstrates when something else is mind-numbingly boring. I have a new idea for a phrase which means a similar thing. That’s right folks. When most normal people are sat watching Saturday night television with a packet…

A Return to Chickens

It’s been a while. Probably a year in fact since we last had chickens. We’ve had them off and on since we moved to the farm but, as I’ve told you before, Mr Fox paid us a few visits and then when I got pregnant with Baby G, Hubster sold them because, and I quote,…

Egg-gate

So two weeks on from our delivery of ex-commercial hens, we’re suffering a bit of an egg-gate situation. I lovingly painted signs eggs for sale, created an egg-cellent display in which to sell my eggs and even made loyalty cards-but nine boxes of eggs and get your tenth “absolutely free.” I was really happy. Pancake…