My local Gardener’s Association has an Autumn Show coming up. It’s just a shame that I don’t have anything to enter. I missed out on the Summer Show too, it just happened that I was at that ‘inbetween’ stage where I’d gobbled everything that I’d pulled out of the ground, and everything else was nowhere [...]
Well we took Yoko to see another vet more experienced with poultry. She basically said that we ought to keep going with the baytril and that she thought Yoko wasn’t alarmingly thin at all. Clear chest, good colouring, she seemed well hydrated and not too much diarrhoea staining. She gave Pokey (Yoko) a steroid [...]
I’m all worried again. Today we had to take Yoko to see the emergency (Saturday) vet. A couple of days ago I thought I saw her sort of ’spitting’ water out of her beak. I only saw the drops of water land on the floor infront of me as I worked on laying the [...]
Digging, cutting, pruning, raking, wheelbarrowing. That seems to have been my life for the past week. There is SO much cutting back, re-shaping, digging out, composting, shredding and green-tipping to do that I think I am starting to go ever so slightly raving mad. It can be a bit demotivating thinking about just how much [...]





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