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I’ve been tied up all week, the blog has been neglected and I’ve been tetchy for lack of me time; sunrises have teased, the sun peeping out for no more than a handful of minutes before disappearing  behind a curtain of cloud. In what little time I could snatch I couldn’t even convince the  giggly [...]

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Neglected Chickens

Only neglected by way of not appearing on this blog of late, due the puppy-photo- fest that has been running. You couldn’t neglect them if you tried, they’d be hammering on the door and climbing in through the cat flap if you failed to tend to their needs.
When we got back from our summer [...]

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Superior results come from superior ingredients. 

Sadly these images can only be a feast for the eye, not the belly.

Produce tent, Hope Show.
Technorati Tags: Peak District National Park,Hope Show,Home baking,Jam.

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August Bank holiday Monday, means Hope Sheepdog Trials and Agricultural Show. (I’ve shown you a shot of the Hope Valley before) Hope Show, as it more usually known, is a traditional sort of agricultural event, cattle,sheep, horses, dogs, tractors, beer, burgers and ice cream, all you need for a grand day out.
I nipped in and [...]

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Thing One

In a change to the scheduled post, I bring the sad news that ‘Thing One’ the chicken has died, this blog was two years old last week and Thing One has been striding out as my avatar from the outset

A chicken of great character, flock leader and mischief maker, we are going to miss [...]

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It’s been gloriously warm and sunny and garden is unseasonably dry, the chickens have made themselves a dust bath in the flower bed.

It’s a bit of a squeeze for two chucks and there was no way they were going to let a third muscle in.

It took a while to get just the right [...]

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Does your mother know you are out?

One of two ducklings on the pond in the park, it seems far to early in the year for such things  (hail is hammering against the windows as I write this)

they were fiercely independent, it was impossible to work out who was the mother duck, but [...]

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The frogs were in a more amiable frame of mind today, like the rest of us a bit of sun on your back, makes hanging around rather pleasant

Smiley, happy faces

I was a little hampered by the chickens who came and perched on the bench by the pond with me, but after they cleared [...]

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Thy neighbours chickens.
Our neighbours have some new hens, a breed called Bluebelles, they are a rather lovely shade of gun metal grey, very pretty.

They weren’t up for having their photos taken, they are a little timid, with me at any rate (unlike ours, who are such brazen hussies that it’s difficult to get far enough [...]

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Yesterday we had a beautiful warm afternoon, the chickens were delighted; they took to a bit basking in the sun, flopping down, wings outstretched, soaking it all up. Lolling around all over the place, they looked like overfed extras in a chicken disaster movie, ‘Right you guys, the scene is this: planet earth has been [...]

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