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Life after hens

Life after hens

July 10, 2018
Life after hens

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 anyone would come to love them, but love them we do, those of us who have them pottering about the garden, making their little chit-chat pootling noises. Their curiosity is so engaging, their contentment so infectious, their desire to hang around when you’re out gardening. I once tried to weed a very small parterre of box that within 5 minutes of starting off contained many weeds, me, 8 chickens and two guinea fowl. It is an immensely inefficient way to garden, but there’s no better.

And now the badger has come and taken the lot. The badgers are hungry these days, with cubs to care for, so I can’t be angry, but I do miss those birds so very very much. A garden without a chicken is really only half a garden.


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somersetbedAbigail Norton@somersetbed·
2 Mar

Standing in the garden listening to birds belting out song and thinking we share the same inexpressible happiness that spring is here. And found this article inspiring in how to help https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/mar/27/gardens-spring-blossom-dan-pearson

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*rewrites will*

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13 Feb

• Ultimate comfort on a high performance memory foam mattress that actually isn’t foam at all and really does remember who you are.

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9 Feb

The Earl of Southampton, painted in 1603, with his lawyer.

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9 Feb

This is why we love them and why the Marx Brothers mirror scene in ‘Duck Soup’ still provides lunatic joy . . . like he says . . . wait for it https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1358874166393516034

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