One hen has gone broody in the hen house in the paddock and we have put some duck eggs under her. I went to check on her just now and spotted a clutch of eggs under the hen house.
Whose eggs are they? The ewe lambs are learning to share their concentrates with the chickens (click below)
And if you fancy a controversial subject with your afternoon cuppa listen to daughter on Woman’s Hour this morning – warning, not for the faint hearted.
Cats ready for a rest – so is grandma!
Girl and cabbages
Thank you friend, neighbour, author and distinguished scientist 
Looking forward to reading this and asking you more questions.
The artist at work
On a wet day it’s good to browse in the St Neots Library. I find any excuse to go there and it’s my second visit this week. The first was to pick up a book I ordered
I remember the terror I felt in 1986 when the nuclear disaster occurred in a a nuclear power plant in a little known place called Chernobyl. Many wondered if food and water would be contaminated and there was advice to avoid salads and leafy vegetables ( even in UK) for fear of airborne nuclear contamination. It was and remains a terrifying disaster with continuing ecological and human consequences.
Be that as it may, the good old library provides me with new books and also an array of withdrawn stock that is hard to resist at such knockdown prices. As I paid for three books for grandson – £1 for all three- I spotted a collection box. I was looking for somewhere to place my pennies and lighten my purse.
Click below – I fell in love with the little fella
The ducks were a bit silly about going to bed tonight (click below).
They had also, unwisely, laid an egg outside the house and it had been pecked at and sucked out by a canny Corvid.
We have taken four other duck eggs and put them under a broody hen – although she isn’t keen on duck eggs instead of hens eggs. In the big field the sheep are “bagging up” in readiness for lambing.
I am nervous and excited. Pinky has had trouble two years running with very large lambs causing birthing problems. Fingers crossed Pinky.
