Blog in France

It’s a day for animal outings. In fact, it’s been a week of it. Rosie, our pregnant sow, has been on two recent walkabouts. She got out of her field first time and second time she pushed open her stable door, which hadn’t latched properly. It’s never any problem getting...

The henlings are here! You may remember I told you about my musical incubator a few weeks ago. At the time it didn’t seem to be working properly, so we put the abandoned duck eggs under a real live incubator instead – Grey Chicken. Popping into the wood shed today...

Public domain photo of heron by A. Schmidt We’ve been seeing a couple of unusually dark, muddy-brown herons hanging around our lakes the last few days. I suspected they might be purple herons, but having looked at photos of them online, I’m not so sure. Possibly blue herons then? Yes,...

I’ve finally put the egg incubator Father Christmas brought me to work. And at a rather appropriate time, seeing as how eggs feature rather significantly at Easter time. It’s currently housing two abandoned but still-warm duck eggs. It’s a very small, neat affair that will hold up to seven eggs....

This week has been busy. On Thursday our last lamb of the spring, Cowslip, arrived. Spot finally delivered her long-awaited baby. But before that, on Tuesday and Wednesday, I was in London with Benj. At the very last minute – well, with about a week to go – I decided...