Having new chickens has been a bit of a worry. Watching the pecking order sort itself out is not much fun to watch. It’s been wonderful for the lowest in the order of our original hens as she made it quite clear from the moment the new hens arrived she was not... Makes a change from the rain to see snow on the hill peaks. It’s such a pity that this picturesque view comes with a biting southerly wind. And I mean biting. Winter does not official start until 1 June but it seems that the climate has disregarded that. ... There are some things that are best left to one’s imagination. Some things just don’t justify a photograph paraded on the Internet. Some things are intimate and private – even for a basset hound. See this paw – it’s clean, sparkly... This is a desperate attempt to convince myself that there is blue sky up there by capturing it in a photo. After all the misery brought by the recent rains I was beginning to doubt that we’d ever seen anything but rain clouds. I love this cloud formation... It wasn’t a surprise but it didn’t make the arrival of the big storm any easier to bear. The wind howled, the rain belted down and it all reaked havoc in the garden. It also led to another disturbed nights sleep. It’s a well known fact that a... 