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    Plumber, Farmer, Butcher, Chef…

    Blog 7th January 2011

    It all started on Bank Holiday Monday… It was a good job that we had no fixed plans for the day – I got up and made a nice breakfast…

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    Happy New Year!

    Blog 31st December 2010

    Celebrating in style! What a wonderful way to see in the New Year: toasting with our home-made drinks… Of course there’s plenty of cider that’s now ready to go and…

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    Christmas at Hen Corner

    Blog 16th December 2010

    What a year! Well, at this busy time of year, I thought I give a quick update before getting on with writing our Christmas cards and packing up the little…

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    Change of season

    Blog 10th November 2010

    All the leaves are brown… Autumn is definitely here; the leaves are changing colour and giving us nature’s confetti as they cascade down from the trees to the ever-deepening carpet…

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    The First and the Last

    Blog 17th October 2010

    “Yesterday is History, Tomorrow a Mystery, Today is a Gift, That’s why it’s called the Present” That phrase sums up today’s sunny afternoon in the garden…. I picked 200g of…

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    Sixty Pints of Cider!

    Blog 6th October 2010

    It’ll all be ready for Christmas! So, after a seasonal supper of Exmouth Mussels and now with a glass of wine and a slice of chocolate cake (sandwiched with fresh…

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    Just when you turned your back!

    Blog 17th September 2010

    Since you’ve been gone…. I do apologise that we’ve been very slack on the blogging recently. So we’ve got a lot to catch up with… A couple of weeks was…

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    The Best Fish and Chips ever?

    Blog 23rd August 2010

    We’ve been on a bit of a tour recently and, whilst having a generally all round good time, managed to stumble on a bit of a find! We were looking…

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    I want to break free!

    Blog 14th August 2010

    ***STOP PRESS*** Ascot and Butternut are released! Our two broodies celebrated their new-found freedom with a lovely bath… in the dust! Check out previous blog posts to catch up, but…

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    Great Eggspectations….

    Blog 30th July 2010

    Give me some eggs! Don’t worry, we’ve not reverted to battery farming, this is a Broody Box (or Naughty Cage as some like to call it!) and we’re on a…