Lucy on December 20th, 2008

I regularly read a blog called Chickens, family and hayfever, and was very saddened to come across the story of Blue, a neglected horse.
You can read Blue’s story here, and show your support to get the RSPCA to finally take some decisive and necessary action that they have failed to show so far. You [...]

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Lucy on December 20th, 2008

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Lucy on December 17th, 2008

One of our garden centres in nearby Woburn Sands has recently opened a new cookshop. It’s a sort of mix of farm shop, wholefoods and world cuisine with some really interesting products. There’s a specialist cheese counter, and a Woburn Country Foods (from the local Duke of Bedford’s Woburn estate) counter selling free range poultry [...]

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Lucy on December 16th, 2008

Today is December 16th. Which is nice.
It also happens to be the 2 year anniversary of the day we picked up four scrawny, balding, pale chickens from the Battery Hen Welfare Trust’s Norfolk rescue.
I’d never kept chickens before, so in a way didn’t really know what on earth to expect from them. Rich had grown [...]

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