Precious moments in time

Very sad news today as my gorgeous little Braith pictured right of Blodwyn died today.

She was looking poorly this morning and didn't want to come out of the coop. I almost expected it but that doesn't make it any easier to deal with. The trouble is I love my animals so deeply, it's unbearable when they do go.

The wonderful thing is that I am sure she had a happy life. She was always willing to take part and join in my mad antics inside the chicken coop and out. She even had her 15 minutes of fame when she appeared in 'Your Chickens' Magazine last month to show them celebrating the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton in April.

Braith - a wonderful old bird, who at the grand age of 6 years and 5 months has given me so many happy moments and mad things to blog about.

My Chickens Your Chickens

Mirror, mirror on the wall ...... Oh dear! I reckon fame has gone to Braith's head after finding out she is in 'Your Chickens' Magazine this month. www.yourchickens.co.uk

It's a great magazine and a lovely way to share stories with other readers who are keen on keeping our feathered friends as pets. I love to hear that some folk are as crazy about them as I am.

It was such a lovely surprise to open the July issue to find my picture of the girls celebrating the Royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton that took place in April earlier this year. They do love to party and join in with everything that we do.

They love the limelight and I am now wondering where they will appear next? Who knows, perhaps one day I will be acting as their agent!

The feel good factor

I do apologise for those of you who have had enough of the Royal Wedding but I think it really did bring the 'feel good factor' to most of the country, in fact to other parts of the world too for those who wanted to celebrate the event.

I think it was sharing with other people and of course my gorgeous animals that made it feel special. I spoke to so many people who were doing various things and it was great to talk about the fun and frolics of the numerous street parties that were being held up and down the county.

The day before we had a dress down event at work in aid of the 26 charities that the royal couple support and on the day I made a donation which covers several animal charities so I was only too pleased to give a little.

Many people that I spoke to howled with laughter when I said I was holding a party for the chickens but why not? Everyone has the right to party, especially when most of the time the news is so depressing and worrying. This was a bit of light relief, even if it was over done a little.

I like to feel that we were all part of history that day. It's like saying you remember what you were doing on a certain date back in history. I will certainly remember sharing the Mad Hatter's tea party with my sweet little hens and hearing the cars pap their horn when they passed our cottage which was also adorned with flags.

It was a wonderful celebration of life and goodwill to others, and I loved every minutue of it.

The Great Easter Egg Hunt

'Hey Girls! The Easter Bunny said we can start the great Egg hunt.'

'Come on, there must be some around here!'

'Found one! It's an odd shape though, still as long as it tastes good. Now how do I get it out of there?'

'Help, help! I would rather go into a chocolate fondue than end up in that beak!'

'Phew, that was close, safe at last!'

'Look at this! A golden egg that's very special.'
I wonder what Gold tastes like?

'I love these mini eggs, wonder how many I can get into my mouth in one go!'

'Well Thumper, that's it for another year. You can have all the eggs those hens never found. I spent hours hiding them and they only found a handful. Too busy scoffing them I guess.

Happy Easter folks!

A Right Royal Hen Party

' Hey girls, have you heard the news today? The Prime Minister stated on national television that everyone should have a street party for the Royal Wedding if they want to.'

' I am not amused! What a waste of time and money! I shall retire to my coop.'

' Oh wow what fun, I shall have a makeover for the day, these bugs have been giving me such a bad hair day!'

' I wish a prince would sweep me off my feet ... maybe if I wore my tiara ....'

'I shall wear my crown!'

'Stop dreaming girls, we have a right royal hen party to organise. Come on we have loads to do, lets get these flags up to start with. We'll show the world how it's done!'

Back to Blogging!

After nearly three weeks of having no Internet connection I had lost touch with all my fellow bloggers. I felt out of it all and the hens were getting restless , they do not like to be out of the limelight for too long!

Three weeks felt like forever, I had even forgotten which buttons to press and what to write about until today when I spent a glorious afternoon in the garden with the girls who helped me with some gardening jobs!

Trying to pot some plants!

Blodwyn meets T-Rex on the rockery

After several hours of clearing up from the mess these three little divas made, I wanted to write again, so here I am back to blogging!

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