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  • Marion
    by Marion 4 hours ago
    Hahaha – hoe oulik is jy! BAIE DANKIE vir die verjaarsdag wense my soet rissiepit. Ek waardeer dit baie. xxx
  • Mcallan
    by Mcallan 2 days ago
    Well mine was chicken singular!...and sorry to hear about Daffodil..:(
  • Gerilyn
    by Gerilyn 2 days ago
    Oh-no! Just popped into your profile and noticed that you've had posts that suggest Daffodil didn't make it. I'm so sorry to hear that. Gx
  • Tony
    by Tony 3 days ago
    Hi Whisks. Yes we had a week in Devon followed by a weekend at my daughter's farm. She has 250 chickens, but she has them well trained. They all go to their respective bedrooms as soon as their light metres register low enough. One always sits in the little door looking out as we do the rounds closing out the foxes and only pulls her beak back in as the sliding door drops, rather like a guilotine.
    They have about 50 geese, too, who have a garage-like enclosure at night. They were all huddling together at the far end, even though the 'garage' door was wide open when we went to close them up. (They also have about two-and-a-half thousand turkeys, but we didn't have to round them up.)
    Anyway, I hope your little darlings adjust quickly to thei new accommodation. Tell them their Warwickshire cousins wish them cheep thrills.
    Sounds like the liqueurs are coming on nicely. Just you fight off the quality controllers while there's still some left. I leave myself in your virginal hands, that's fine. (It's a long time since I've said that!)
    Cheers, Whisks.
  • Aonghus Fallon
    by Aonghus Fallon 5 days ago
    Sorry to hear about Daffodil b.t.w.
  • Aonghus Fallon
    by Aonghus Fallon 5 days ago
    I suppose you heard that work for chicken-sexers is drying up in China? A formerly lucrative livelihood it has been affected by (amongst other things) the fact that hen-breeders now breed the females to have longer feathers than the males, thereby making on-the-spot identification far easier.

    Just thought you'd like to know.
  • Rebecca Holmes
    by Rebecca Holmes 6 days ago
    Awww - thanks for remembering. It did okay, though with nowhere near as many plums as last year - probably not surprisingly, after that bumper crop. We got a good bucketful, but sadly should have picked them about a week earlier, as the wasps got to quite a few of them. So no plum wine from this year's lot, but I stewed quite a few for the freezer, for autumn puddings (yummy with custard!)

    Brilliant to hear your tree's producing. What sort are yours? But a fox????? Eating plums??? That's a new one on me.
  • Chanty
    by Chanty 12 days ago
    Provided nothing goes amiss with the carer working up in Wales with my client, have a week off. Chose not to work else where as I start my night classes at college that week and don't want to miss them. But, if you keen - will come by for a day or two before driving back to Wales. Catch up and meet all the animals. It's the week starting 8th Sept. Like I said provided I'm not called back to work with the client that week. Let me know if you keen by text or email, hun. And do take care of yourself too. C xxx
  • Weens
    by Weens 14 days ago
    I love the expression 'newly washed air'. I have written it in my notebook for future reference. Lovely.
  • Mcallan
    by Mcallan 14 days ago
    Now I had honestly never spotted that!...how odd..:)