Life with Hens
I got hens at the urging of my sister, a long-standing Black Rock devotee. They’d be useful for lovely eggs for breakfast I thought, and took up her offer of a delivery of 8 in the first few months of…
Managing time in a B&B
This is what I meant to do today: Plant out the last of the seedlings Mow the lawn Water the polytunnel Wash, dry and iron the bedlinen Weed the front border Sow basil and biennials Make a cake Work out…
Life after hens
The reptilian glare of a chicken is quite off-putting. Chickens seem so alien, compared to other birds – robins and blackbirds – with their exaggerated walk and scaly legs, and that beady eye. It’s so very hard to imagine that…