Sigh, complete confusion with Sisters One and Two, the geese who were sitting. One got off the nest, apparently bored. She’s been sitting originally on seven eggs. Now there were five, and her sister decided to take over. But then last weekend she too became bored and got off. By that time they were down …
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Uncooperative Hen is Unpopular!
She went broody as they begin to around this time of the year, and sat on eight eggs. However unbeknown to me she was allowing a good friend to lay in the nest as well – maybe more than one good friend. And when the stack of eggs that she was sitting on become uncomfortable …
Winter Came Back When We Weren’t Looking.
On Friday winter came back, just in case we’d thought that it was really spring now. I was reading a book and making notes for a review mid-afternoon when I had the impression that temperatures had dropped. I checked the outside thermometer and they certainly had. Around lunchtime it had been a good 13 degrees, …
Not Great Weather Just Now.
spring has sprung. It’s wet (a steady flow of showers,) and windy. I can live with the wet, it’s shooting the grass upwards usefully, but I could do without the wind, I find it intensely irritating hearing that when I’m trying to go to sleep. But then, as I added after being rude about the …
Now the Geese Are Laying too
I hadn’t realized this until I looked up the lawn while bringing in firewood and noticed that one goose was sitting in the hen’s dust bath. Next time I went out I noticed that she was there again – and a third time. So when I fed them next morning – and she was in …
The Hens are Laying!
and they certainly are. Inspired by the new pullets my older hens have also moved into full laying mode and I’m currently collecting a stack of brown, and green eggs every day. (I have several hens that are part-Araucana, a breed that lays green eggs, and some strains of which can lay blue or lavender …
I Never Liked Tom Cruise
Not for anything he did, but for something that in my opinion, he always failed to do. He never became the person whose role he acted. It was always Tom Cruise there not the character in the story, and I could never forget that, until the other night. Sunday night TV2 showed us the 2012 …
Lawn Worries.
Perhaps what is the final load of firewood arrived for the winter last weekend. I was worried about that since while we had a long dry spell over the start of the year, that’s been very well made-up for ever since and the lawn was soft. The sort of soft where a big truck can …
Enjoying an Afternoon Out
I’m not sure if this should really appear in Writing Updates or in Comments from Farside, but a couple of weeks ago I had a throughly pleasant afternoon. To my surprise I was asked to be live-theatre critic for a local theatre’s production of The Vicar of Dibley. In the end my review of this …
Mixed Events
16 November 2014
Howling gales on and off over the last two days. NOT to my liking, and still more annoyingly, it prevents me from cooking the piglets cracked barley – which I do on my freestanding enclosed fire, and I’m never happy using that in the really bad gales. Fortunately I saw the gales coming and cooked …
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