Are now on the lower floor of the hen house with their surrogate mum. The third egg didn’t hatch but, hey, three’s a crowd!

Time to settle down and watch newsnight

He’s the last one to go to bed every night and it takes two of us to chase and catch him.

The sweet peas in the barn car park are flowering against the backdrop of the evening sky

Tomorrow we will move mother hen and her two surrogate goslings

Into this ……for supper

So far today 16 pounds of gooseberries

3 pounds of black currants and nearly 3 pounds of tayberries and raspberries

Our geese are fickle sitters so (with a nod to friend Heather, who first suggested this three years ago) we put goose eggs under a broody hen and…….