Author Archives: Carol

We have a thriving, breeding, colony of slow worms in our garden. This summer we have seen them in all different sizes. We have seen small ones, medium ones and really big, fully grown ones. This morning I opened the … Continue reading →

Our garden is full of bees. We have something in flower nearly every month of the year so there is always something to attract the bees. At the moment it is the sedums that are busy with bees. It is … Continue reading →

Our friends and allotment sharers (who live opposite us) have been on holiday for two weeks. For the first week they went abroad and then a day back home and then off to the lake district in their camper van. … Continue reading →

I haven’t been blogging so much recently for two reasons. For one there hasn’t been much happening in chicken world which is no bad thing and for another I have been learning to sell on e-bay. We have been in … Continue reading →

Speckles is our oldest girl and we can tell that she is feeling her age. We have had her five years and she was at least two years old when we had her because she was moulting and had lost … Continue reading →

Today when my husband brought produce back from our allotment plot he also surprised me with some wild flowers from our plot. He cut the top off his plastic water bottle to transport them home in water. I transferred them … Continue reading →

We were disappointed when our whole row of marris peer potatoes, on our garden veg plot, got blight. We dug them up and ate them as new potatoes so they weren’t wasted but didn’t give us much of a yield. … Continue reading →

It has been a good year, weather wise, for our first year sharing an allotment plot. Last summer was hot and dry and would have been difficult. Our own garden veg plot didn’t do at all well as we couldn’t … Continue reading →

As Jenn is new to my blog, yesterday, I decided to try to get a photo of the whole flock for her to see. This is tricky with a couple of broody girls. I put a fish treat in several … Continue reading →

Over the last few days I had the feeling that Marmite was going broody. She was spending much longer in the nest box and making the clucking sound. Last night I had to lift both Smoke and Marmite from the … Continue reading →