As I type this, I cant help but notice the silence. Not completely silent, obviously. With three children, the house is never completely silent but the office area is much quieter than this time yesterday. You see, after 28 days of buzzing, the incubator has been switched off. Some 28 days ago, 22 eggs were…
Just before Christmas, there was a tiny news report on the television reporting an outbreak of avian flu. If you blinked, you missed it. Unfortunately for poultry across the UK, the result was very misleading advice from Defra about what poetry keepers should do. Their chief vet imposed a restriction on birds and suggested keepers…
On the ‘about me’ page of the blog, it says: “Strange things happen to me a lot of the time. Sometimes my fault, sometimes not.” This sentence was ringing in my ears yesterday. It was a rainy day in the school holidays. Where would you take the kids? Soft play? The cinema? Well, for a…
Dear Mr Fox, You have visited us too many times over the past few years. We have spent hundreds of pounds on birds that have either ended up in your horrible stomach or left dead in the coop and the field. I have cried many, many tears over the carnage you have left and…
