I’ve been meaning to put some “before” and “after” shots up for a while. Need to take some more to summarise it nicely.

We got down to a seriously hard days work yesterday. We started at 9am digging the lawn, moving the chicken coop, raking and heeling, raking and heeling until the soil was flat and clear enough to lay the turf at around 4.30pm. All done by 6pm, exhausted. Looks like a golf course…

It is now in the chicken coop, so you might be lucky and see Maddy, Shash or Boo. Still a bit experimental - so if it isn’t working please come back later - sorry! Click on the image below or here to see the camera.

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To see the latest snapshot. Or if you’re using a mobile device, try this You might also try the ActiveX version if you’re on IE.

The hen’s got a new “hotel” last weekend - we decided to make them a permanent home. So the investment in these egg machines stepped to a new (and frankly ridiculous) level… we already have one “hundred pound hen” - when you count purchase cost and vet bill for the sore leg (which is now much better).

Hopefully the effect is to tidy up the “Gypsie’s” garden we’ve been cultivating recently.

Big news is that, after much build up, one of the hens, Boo, laid her first egg yesterday… and it was a double-yolker. She was clearly possessed by the desire all morning and finally, in the bean patch, announced with much excited clucking that she’d fulfilled her purpose.

We barbequed it at our house party!

Next door’s little monkey:

Enjoying the party: