Author Archives: Carol

We lost our lovely Cinnamon yesterday. She has always been a firm favourite of both of us and of my readers too I think. I made a mistake yesterday when I said she was four years old, in fact she … Continue reading →

I wanted to get back as early as I could to see how Cinnamon was but everything seemed against me. Everywhere I went I had to queue and the traffic coming home was really slow. When I got home my … Continue reading →

The day before yesterday I noticed that Salmon was wheezing again. Then yesterday afternoon we both saw that Cinnamon was in trouble again. Cinnamon was making the same twisting, neck motion, that she was last time. In between she was … Continue reading →

Smoke has laid nine eggs in fourteen days and then she went broody again. Ebony is now our only girl left laying. Smoke only ever seems to lay for two weeks before going broody. It seems so late in the … Continue reading →

Both Marmite and Flame have white heads at the moment because of the amount of pins they have. Flame’s neck seems to be moulting one side at a time. These two girls are having a messy moult. This is often … Continue reading →

There have been lot’s of tiny feathers from Flame in the chicken shed each morning. She is now looking quite tatty. I am not surprised because Flame looked very tatty last year when she moulted. It’s funny how they all … Continue reading →

Marmite is now a mass of pins. She does look a sight. Like Ebony she has also developed white tips to her feathers. She does look a state but the pins have come through quickly so hopefully she will soon … Continue reading →

Ever since we have lived here we have had a frog in the garden but we only see it occasionally. There may be more than one but we only see one at a time. We only see it once or … Continue reading →

As well our three firsts for largest sunflower head, fattest carrot and heaviest marrow we have also got first for best allotment plot this year. As it’s our first year we are well chuffed. Points were awarded for lack of … Continue reading →

It is said that seramas moult a few feathers at a time all year round. This isn’t what I have experienced. My little girls seem to moult at this time of year the same as the bigger girls. I am … Continue reading →