Laundry

Danny has finally put a laundry line up so now we can dry laundry Orkney style!  We put this stuff on the line about an hour ago and it is nearly already dry and ready to take down!  Woo hoo!

Sanday Agricultural Show

Friday was the annual Sanday Agricultural Show -- not quite as big as the Royal Welsh, but as this is the first show I've been to since before pandemic, I'm not complaining!  Also, I've had longer walks from the car at the Royal Welsh to the show than we had from our house -- this is the view of the show field from our driveway:

In accordance with the rule that if there is something on the menu I've never eaten before I must order it, I tried the Scottish speciality of macaroni cheese chips...  I like macaroni cheese and I like chips, but this is possibly the stodgiest thing I have eaten in my life!

Random things I took pictures of at the show in no particular order:

And for a little Cookie update:  She doesn't seem to have worked out how reading the weather forecast works!  She looked at it and then went out in the rain and came back looking like a little drowned rat!  But she did catch her first vole the other night!  (Vole not pictured...)

First egg from first chicks!

One of the hens from our first lot of chicks, who were born on Mothering Sunday, has laid her first egg!  Egg on right is hers, egg on left is from white hen (her birth mother) for size comparison.  They will get bigger once she gets used to it...  :)

Not sure which of the three black hens it was as I was out when it happened, but here's a random one of the three...  Presumably now that one has started the other two won't be far behind...  So much bigger now than when she was born -- a mere 129 days ago!  :)