Oh - it's worse than I thought. 2 hens - (Jamie calls them Gertrude and Gloria) turned up on the perch in our box - in the night. We found them next morning and Seecil and I have been giving them a tough time since. Pulling their combs and generally letting them know they are not welcome. However they don't seem to be going away, and Jamie wants to protect them from our growling and attacking! We were all shut in together for a day, so what could you expect us to do! They are now allowed out in our garden! Sigh! Jamie is picking cucumber and green beans and putting more soil and stuff in one of the gardens- for winter veges she says. And that's Gloria!!

I can hear other hens very close by and Jamie is being very secretive. This is worrying. She is crowing though about the runner bean harvest and has picked her first Zucchini and cucumber! Tomatoes very slow though and the ones in the glasshouse are sick!

Raining again. Jamie has been done a couple of times with treats. She wanted to do lots in the garden today and we wanted to help! I feel ( and look so Jamie says) very bedraggled.

I didn't lay the last two days - the first time I've missed more than 1 day. I heard Jamie muttering about " similar fate" to Simone and Sweet Pea, so I laid a beautiful big brown egg again today, and she was very pleased with me!!  I am moulting a little bit which is the problem- just feel a bit uncomfy! And am missing Simone.

Well it is a sad day for Jamie. Simone has been unwell for a while, and today she was was not really eating and had lost weight and was clearly unwell. We got shut in and Didn't hear or see anything. But we did hear that Tangi has got more feathers for korowai - so that's both Sweet Pea and Simone now living on in korowai. We had better stay well!

It has been a very exciting afternoon! Chaz was back again and he laid more stones on our courtyard, as well as around the garden we can't get to! 

Jamie and Chaz moved two round black things down into the garden, and we were given access to slugs. Simone ate a great big green slug! I actually didn't like the taste of that one- yuk.

Well, Jamie is worried, cos Simone has not laid for weeks again! Seecil keeps her in line but that shouldn't stop her laying - that;'s what we hens do!

Today was great... Jamie got this noisy machine going and it churned out green broad bean tasting bits! Yum - we all tucked in to those. I also got a slug and a snail!!