The Chickens Have Landed

The lovely Pam of Fenland Fowl came today and brought us four young bantams.

We have a Maran, a Hamburgh, a Wyandotte and a Leghorn x Legbar cross. So far we've not named them, but they've settled in well and managed to ignore the scrutiny of our cats and William (who was more interested in banging on the coup).

In a few weeks' time they should start to give us multi-coloured eggs - very dark brown from the Maran, blue-green from the Leghorn x legbar cross and brown and white from the Wyandotte and Hamburgh. Now we've just got to look up all of our best recipes. Hopefully some of them will include courgettes as the veggie patch is making a last stand before Autumn and we can't pick them fast enough.

Baby Steps

No one big piece of news to report on at the moment.

Chickens should arrive... next week.
First batch of biodiesel... next week.
New set of house plans... next week.

I've also got a very uncomfortable sprained muscle in my back, so the ongoing war against nettles is suffering a slight set back.

On the positive side, William brought back his first painting from nursery on Wednesday. He's just like his dad - more paint on the boy than on the paper. My usual approach to painting things is more or less the same, cover yourself in paint and throw yourself at the target.