We could easily have won another Gold if wet weather was a sport! This really has been a washout summer. Now the Gladioli are coming through we have claret, lilac and lime flowers in the borders but not a lot else.After a night of wind and rain the wild flowers have been battered and blown but the leggy Japanese anemones are still reaching to the skies because they are so light and delicate; no top heavy blooms to weigh them down. The sale items are still popping up in the garden centre but each day I see more slugs brazenly lounging on the lawns, probably on the wall to my plants. As I type the rain has started again and we've been forecast heavy rain all day. Think I will be doing some housework today instead of slumming it in the hammock. What a shame.
Friday, 17 August 2012
What came first..?
Well, in our case it was the chicken. We've had the new chicks for four months now and yesterday we were rewarded with the first egg from one of them. Like with children, you shouldn't have favourites and certainly not least favourites but shamefully I have to admit that Poppy, the little gold laced, has never had many qualities to endear her to us. She has been a proper chicken in the slang term, always racing away from us and squawking whenever we are anywhere near her. She is a good looking chicken though, teeny tiny but beautifully formed with that curvy shape that Wyandottes have and she loves to jump high for the tallest raspberry canes. Who'd have thought that she would have been the first of the three new girls to produce a perfect egg?
We thought there may be an egg on the way when Buck Bucky (the old hen) started clucking loudly and flew up onto the roof of the nesting boxes and doing a dirty protest whilst Poppy was scratching about inside the box to make her nest. Mrs Bun's body is a bullet shaped and she looks more like a duck then a Wyandotte and Luna is larger than Buck Bucky so I'm not sure she is a true Wyandotte but she is a beautiful colour and a real chatterbox. But now Poppy has proved herself by popping out a perfect, tiny, hard shelled first egg - it will make a lovely omelette for a doll's house. Photo to follow.
We thought there may be an egg on the way when Buck Bucky (the old hen) started clucking loudly and flew up onto the roof of the nesting boxes and doing a dirty protest whilst Poppy was scratching about inside the box to make her nest. Mrs Bun's body is a bullet shaped and she looks more like a duck then a Wyandotte and Luna is larger than Buck Bucky so I'm not sure she is a true Wyandotte but she is a beautiful colour and a real chatterbox. But now Poppy has proved herself by popping out a perfect, tiny, hard shelled first egg - it will make a lovely omelette for a doll's house. Photo to follow.
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