The little chickie is trying to keep warm! :)

This is what the weather will look like for the next six months... :)

The chicks are two weeks old today and they are growing very quickly -- they certainly wouldn't fit in an egg anymore!

Yet another lunchtime harvest, including a RED pepper!

Sunrise at about 6:30 this morning.

This is the village of Talley!

This is the same shot, zoomed in. Our house is the one furthest to the right with the little light blue car in front of it!

That cluster of houses you can see in the middle of the photo is where we live! It looks like a village almost...

This is the holding tank for our water. The actual spring is further up the mountain.

Yet another cute chick picture... :)

Chickies are now 9 days old and nearly have proper wings now!

So this is Stella, the hen that ate/killed her chicks last time round -- but she has gone broody again, so I am going to give her another chance. Check this space in 21 days time...

It is starting to be like a production line in the barn now -- the box on the left has Mommy with her two chicks and the box on the right has Stella who is going to get some eggs to sit on tomorrow morning! Good thing we saved all the boxes from moving... :)

Now we have a tidy hedge like everyone else!

Hedge-tastic! :)

As if by magic... All last week I had been noticing everywhere I went that farmers were trimming their hedges. At the weekend Greg and I had a conversation about the practicality of trimming ours by hand and decided that it probably wasn't practical. Presto, today this guy materialized out of nowhere and asks if we want the hedge trimmed! £15 for the lot (okay, we haven't got much hedge at the moment). He just appears every year and does the hedges -- we don't know who he is or where he's from!

The chicks are getting big very quickly -- and they are already starting to get real feathers at the ends of their wings!

Final Broody Update

So I just opened the last egg (she wasn't really sitting on it anymore) and it was rotten, so that's it, two baby chickies for me -- but I am quite pleased as two is better than none! Now I have to wait about six weeks to find out if they are girls or boys... More eggs or roast chicken... :)

Surprise!

What's better that one chickie? Two chickies! :) Out of the four eggs, two chicks have hatched, one died, and there is still one egg which I will give until tomorrow to hatch. Aren't they so cute?!

Chick-tastic!

Chick movie now available at http://www.btinternet.com/~weckerphoto/Chick.AVI !!!