Limping a bit but managing to get in and out if the hen house. This morning she ate some corn from my hand, bless her.

Her bantie flock sister continues to sit on two goose eggs. At least three plus weeks more sitting to go, if she lasts the course.

that graced our drive for a few hours.

The visitors took home rhubarb and beetroots and eggs but only granddaughter got the first peas

Just a bit more sun and rain and maybe next week we will see the purple, blue blooms.

Another day, another pigeon and a good long sleep

Outside her friends are happily waddling around the garden. Click below

Grandson complained that he hadn’t seen enough pictures of calf Lily so…..

or her mum, Lucy

Little black Bantie is poorly and I doubt she will last the weekend. She is sitting quietly in the corner of the hen house with occasional visits from Lemon Bantie.

She sat on a clutch of duck eggs but after five weeks none had hatched. Then she sat on one hen egg for a further three weeks and this morning I opened the hen house and saw a little chick. I moved mother and chick to the Nursery Ark away from the cockerel and other big birds who might harm the baby. Well done mum.