I’ve neglected this poor blog of late; not through choice, just sheer lack of time. I haven’t really been crafting or experimenting with cooking recently because I’ve been back at work since January and we’ve had various family crises to deal with, including my lovely hubby being hospitalised this week for a suspected heart attack. Fortunately for us, it was in fact a nasty bout of pericarditis and he will make a full recovery as long as he listens to his Doctor and spends the next two weeks relaxing.

One aspect of our life I haven’t mentioned lately is that we’ve started keeping hens. Towards the end of March we collected our hens from a local breeder who has been very good to us in terms of support and providing us with advice (and hatching eggs!) and at the same time we collected some eggs. We now have seven hens, two ducks and 10 eggs in the incubator!

Last Sunday we got our very first egg. It was laid by our Silver Laced Wyandotte bantam and as such it’s the smallest egg I’ve ever seen, but the children certainly seemed to approve! I promise I will post some photographs of the hens, chicks and ducks soon but in the meantime I’ll leave you with our very first egg, and the happy recipient of that first egg.

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