Woman’s Hour

by | Oct 5, 2010 | Writing

Nice promotional number recorded in London earlier in the summer – http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00bf1jz

Marek’s Horror

by | Jul 23, 2010 | Writing

So – little snowball the silkie got the chop today. Well, not exactly the chop. Jay tried to dislocate her spine in the usual fashion, but her head came away in his hand – her whole musculature was so degraded, her little body so emaciated. This time the...

Popcorn RIP

by | Jun 16, 2010 | Writing

So – there it lies at the foot of the plum tree – popcorn’s gravestone, carefully strewn with daisies and forget-me-knots and inscribed by Elinor ‘with love’. Popcorn the 30 week cockerel had his neck dislocated on Monday –...

June 12 launch

by | May 28, 2010 | Writing

So – the Barracks Lane Community garden chicken launch was good fun.  Lots of people squeezed into a yurt to hear me read from my tome, and to grill me on the pros of keeping chooks. Questions from what to feed them to how to kill them…Only problem was...

Chicken jumpers

by | May 25, 2010 | Writing

My aunt Wendy has just sent me a hilarious missive – a leaflet that says, Help us knit hen jumpers! Reading my chapter about 007 the ex-bat, she was reminded of the time she knitted woolies for bald battery hens. Her charity ‘Little hen rescue’...