I got outside before the expected downpour and filled seven punnets with gooseberries.

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We had a laugh and a joke, as always, and I told mum that one of our refugees (her granddaughter/my niece) is returning to London on Sunday. Niece will now be able to have socially distanced contact with her friends and plan some s.d. activities this summer for the youth groups that she coordinates and organises.

I lifted the hatch of the new Silkie house and the first chook to emerge, albeit very slowly and cautiously, was the unencumbered Silkie Hen. Then two adult cockerels followed her

Mrs Bantam and her eleven chicks were more adventurous

But the heavy rain has sent them all back inside

The young Silkies and their mum have mixed in with the four adult Silkies and all have relocated to a large goose and duck house by the dried up duck pond.

Mother Bantie and her 11 chicks have been rehoused in the adult Silkie run and house