To eat some corn for breakfast.

When the birds are very young they eat chick crumbs, then they go on to growers mash and then layers mash. These, our youngest brood, are still eating chick crumbs but I think they are old enough for breakfast corn.

In the new poly tunnel

and Chris was repositioning the stile that had to be moved to accommodate the new goose gate.

Jeremy stacked them and the cats will be able to lie by a warm wood burner from now until the spring. It’s alright for some!

The Silkie chicks have found a way out of their run and the orchard, through the “chicken wire” so that they can play around the raspberry canes.

When I came over, to pick some of the fruits, they ran off home to mother Silkie.

Does anyone know the name of this late flowering plant? I don’t.

And a stunning sunset of burnished gold and copper.

With friend Kate and the lovely Zola, who popped in to say hello. Even though the postbox is just around the corner, letters often sit on our hall table for days on end before being put in the box!

Sadly not! But we were delighted to welcome a new walker, David, this week.

He is a keen bird watcher so he can answer my many bird questions. We do hope he will walk with us again.