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From mud-and-straw to IBM — July 2nd, 2007, 8PM
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The chickenhouse must get finished! The chooks are growing up, and they’re in the shed with a little light to keep them warm — but we’ve got such a lovely house planned for them, and we just must finish it! It’s at the bottom of the garden, with two runs (summer and winter; nothing but [...]
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The Chicken Run — May 31st, 2007, 4PM
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We’re getting half a dozen chicks next week, and their house isn’t at all ready yet…
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"Dad, I dug a hole." — May 20th, 2007, 12PM
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I have been digging this morning, working on the chicken run. It’s muddy, now we’ve started pulling up the concrete, and the clay sucks at my boots and sticks to all the tools; how very far this is from my memories of digging soakwells in Fremantle! (Incidentally: I have only just learnt that around here [...]
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Begone broodiness! — November 23rd, 2005, 12PM
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We’ve been trying to stop our bantam from being broody for the last week or so, to no avail. Someone said that putting a clutch of ice cubes under her would do the trick, but it just seemed too painful—she sat there, looking poor and hungry and desperately trying to warm these frozen eggs; it [...]
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