Black and Yellow have been key colours that have repeated themselves over and over again this week… First, as promised, here is our ‘Chick Update’: Butternut (yellow) has been the…
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Let us introduce you to the First Four! As regular readers and subscribers know, we decided to try hatching some fertile eggs under Broody Butternut. We are on day 19…
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There is a time for everything… This was the theme for my son’s ‘School Leavers Assembly’ this week; based on the passage in Ecclesiastes of the same name. As we…
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Oh My Goodness… I thought to myself whilst eating supper in the garden this evening. I had spent a couple of hours in the Kitchen Garden; transplanting the brassicas to…
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Sorry we haven’t posted for a while… The reason is that we’ve had some very good friends from Australia come to stay with us here at Hen Corner. Richard &…
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Come and see for yourself… It was a delight to host another Chicken Keeping Course this week, Lisa (pictured with Sara) and Anne are friends who are thinking about hen…
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Meet Thoral… He is one of the most wonderful men that you could ever meet. He is an old family friend who has spent the last 40-50 years farming 40…
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What a year we’ve had…. This time last year, April ’10, we spent weeks lugging bricks around to pave the Kitchen Garden paths. It was a job worth doing but…
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Oooh, it was so good to take a serrated knife below the surface of the soil to cut the first ever spears of asparagus here at Hen Corner today. Only…
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Good things come in Threes? Or so they say, but this time last year, before this blog had even begun, I didn’t expect to be writing a post that announces…