When I returned from the Wednesday Walk there was a box on the drive.

Inside was a small shoal of tiny goldfish. Jeremy has just released them into the pond near the house.

And in the chicken ark sits a Bantam hen who has, over the past ten weeks, been sitting (unsuccessfully) on duck eggs, then chicken eggs and another clutch of chick eggs. This morning, finally, she has one black fluffy chick and may have more to follow. That one chick is very precious.