Morning everyone, must get to the plots today to check on the state of play. Although we were hardly touched by Arwen here, the wind and rain was quite fierce, and being a relatively open site the winds can be damaging at the best of times.
Fingers very crossed for OH @Busy-Lizzie 🤞🤞🤞 As for that pesky cockeral .... what about trying the old poacher's trick of soaking wheat or maize in brandy or whisky and leaving a good heap out for him to find ... apparently you can pick drunken pheasants up off the ground as they fall out of the trees when they sleep it off ... I would think it ought to work for cockerals too. At least it ought to slow him down a bit ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Good morning everyone. Thick, freezing fog and -2C as I set off to get my 3rd jab but all clear once I approached Luçon. Still foggy here when I got home and my poor cannas by the front door are looking a bit sorry for themselves. Time to take them to the polytunnel then.
Making onion soup for lunch and sewing a pair of navy blue trousers for OH who has managed to rip the other dark pair he wears for golf. The pocket and fly arrangements on men's trousers are fiendish compared to my trouser patterns.
Not easy to catch chickens through the day, if you keep watch about 4pm he will start to roost, you can just pick them off the perch or roosting point, by the legs, what you do with it after is a matter of choice 😀
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Morning everybody, much warmer today but dull and windy. Expecting rain soon. Found my usual walk a bit exhausting this morning but I am rather tired after a disturbed night. Fortunately we've nothing planned for today. Fingers crossed for OH @Busy-Lizzie. A drunk cockerel sounds very amusing, I would be very tempted to try Dove's suggestion to see if it works. Have a good day folks.
Hello all, I feel very lazy today as the sun is out and it's lovely and warm, just had coffee on the terrace making the most of it. OH was getting hot so got up to do some work! I'm keeping an eye out for neighbour's chickens as they often come into our garden, I don't think it will be too long before they start eating the seed put out for the larger ground feeding birds, the other one is covered with a cage.
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As for that pesky cockeral .... what about trying the old poacher's trick of soaking wheat or maize in brandy or whisky and leaving a good heap out for him to find ... apparently you can pick drunken pheasants up off the ground as they fall out of the trees when they sleep it off ... I would think it ought to work for cockerals too. At least it ought to slow him down a bit ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Making onion soup for lunch and sewing a pair of navy blue trousers for OH who has managed to rip the other dark pair he wears for golf. The pocket and fly arrangements on men's trousers are fiendish compared to my trouser patterns.
Love the idea of a drunken cockerel @Dovefromabove but what happens when @Busy-Lizzie catches him?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Fingers crossed for OH @Busy-Lizzie.
A drunk cockerel sounds very amusing, I would be very tempted to try Dove's suggestion to see if it works.
Have a good day folks.