Our New Life in the Country: Chicken at the Window, Spade in the Hand

Saturday, 15 March 2014

Chicken at the Window, Spade in the Hand

There was a tap, tap tapping at the kitchen window this morning as we sat eating our poached eggs on toast. As usual Angel was out and about and having a nosey.

With a flap of her wings she was away just after I had grabbed the camera and got a couple of shots of the cheeky little madam. She's taken to flying over the fence to lay her eggs again. I found a little clutch in a pile of leaves behind the plants I was transplanting yesterday. As we were unsure of how old they were I threw them over the fence for the chickens to have a treat, Lovely Hubby was rather dismayed when they turned out to be perfectly fresh and beautifully formed ..... but the chickens were very grateful :-)

It's lovely to have the odd chicken roaming around the place again, even if they are supposed to be behind the fence, luckily they all take themselves back once the wanderlust has been fed.

There's lots of little but very effective jobs going on this weekend and hopefully there will be some more pictures to share with you by Monday. Spades, trellis and new gorgeous plants are involved .... and I may even have a washing line soon :-)

Sue xx

8 comments:

Sarah15 March 2014 at 14:10
You could of always have checked the freshness of the eggs using a bowl of water, but as you say at least the chickens had a treat.
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Ailsa15 March 2014 at 15:43
Im on my ipad tonight and the title of your blog was our new wife in the country, ha ha. Funny chicken!!!
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Julie 15 March 2014 at 18:10
Haha cheeky chicken indeed.. don't they make you laugh with the antics they get up to! :o)
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BadPenny15 March 2014 at 18:18
There's nothing like a lovely hen pecking around cheekily !
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Kathy15 March 2014 at 22:24
Lovely view from your kitchen window. Regards Kathy A, Brisbane, Australia
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Sheepskinsandfairylights16 March 2014 at 07:44
Love your posts so much, I do miss my chicks & all their characters. People found it hard to believe they used to tap at the back door when I got home from work :-) xx
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John Going Gently16 March 2014 at 21:57
Chickens in e window
The best view ever
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This was my Blog, just me writing about our day to day life learning all about and then living the smallholding life. First we started on a farm in Oxfordshire, then we moved to a smaller place in Berkshire (both in England) and then we found a place of our very own at the bottom of a hillside in North Wales. Along for the ride were all our various animals, and we ended up with just our dogs, Suky and Mavis, our cat Ginger .... who secretly thinks he's one of the canine gang, a sheep called Ethel who wandered in off the road and stayed... and a roving band of egg laying chickens that live cheek by jowl with the local wildlife.

We grow our own fruit and vegetables, selling surplus plants and edibles at the gate. We sell the eggs the chickens lay, we reuse, recycle and rethink ... and life ticks over at a pace that suits us.

It was simply the wild and wacky ramblings of a 50 something townie turned country girl called Sue, who lost her heart to a sailor and started a new life in the country .... many years ago. On a path that took us from Cumbria to Oxfordshire, to Berkshire and then we found our home at the bottom of a wet and windy Welsh hillside by a busy main road.

Pull up a chair, grab a coffee and relax into a world of dogs, cats, chickens, polytunnels and veggies with the occasional grass munching sheep thrown in for good measure.

Sue xx

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