So the baby chicks were nine weeks old yesterday and I think I have finally decided what sex they are -- we have one of each!

...cockerel...

...hen... If anybody out there knows any better, please let me know!

So the outside tap is now wrapped up snug as a bug -- hopefully this will prevent it freezing tonight as it is supposed to get COLD!

Finally harvested most of the sweet peppers from the porch. This photo is the "before"...

...ac ar ol...and after...

Roedd hi'n oer iawn y bore ma.
It was very cold this morning. We had our first frost! I went out to feed the chickens and not only was the top of their water frozen, but the tap in the field was frozen as well! :( Need to find my gloves...

Gwnes i frecwast fawr y bore ma. Mae wyau yn prin nawr!
I had a big breakfast this morning. Eggs are rare now!

More leaks -- this is water coming down the wall in the porch...

Was supposed to have gone to the WI meeting this evening to hear Derek Moore on Wildlife and Antiquities of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan but have just had a call saying that the meeting has been cancelled due to flooding. This is the water coming under the gate at the bottom of the field -- and as you can see, the water is coming over the bottom bar... Apparently there is flooding at the bottom of the Talley road and the police are only letting people with essential business through...

We have an interesting leak above one of the windows in the lounge...

...which is conveniently dripping into the baby spider plants directly underneath it -- automatic watering system! :)

Egg production has dropped off dramatically, and the ones we are getting (we are averaging about five eggs a week or so) are decidedly odd looking...

And yet more seeds that I have to roast tomorrow, but it is late so am off to bed now...

This is what happens when you try to roast the seeds from the insides of 18 pumpkins!

Saturday night we went to a Halloween party -- Calan Gaeaf in Welsh -- and I was a black cat -- cath ddu.

Eggs, or lack thereof...

No eggs today! I think this is the first day, since mid-June when we got the chickens, that there haven't been any eggs... :( What am I going to eat???