Kate Pullen

I told you we were fixated with our door frames. Here’s a picture with Ian giving a sense of proportion to the door frame. Look at Tib’s eyes in the background – you can see why cat’s eyes used to…

…then I think my ears would be burning. Needless to say that our broody hen took great exception to being taken out of her nest and locked out of the barn. While I don’t speak Chicken, the gist of what…

We’re going to have to take drastic action with our broody hen. She has been broody for several weeks now, and it looks like she just thinks she is hatching invisible elephant eggs. From what I’ve read we need to…

Well, when we were listening to the news about the flooding in Cumbria, I thought I’d take a look at our blogs from when Carlisle flooded – We went to Carrefour yesterday to buy a new monitor for my…

Last night we sat and marveled at our shiny cutlery, glasses and saucepans. Unfortunately, as our plates are plastic, we were unable to wash them in our new dishwasher, but we’ll look to get some new terracotta plates over the…

Make for Business has been launched. It might be a bit rough round the edges still, so it’s still in beta really, but here it is anyway – MakeForBusiness – let us know if there are any oddities! In case…

The chickens, well our one laying one as the other is still broody, still refuse to use their lovely nesting box. Here is Spot’s preferred laying place.

Did I mention that we bought some Indian doors, from Ebay France, which came from a man in Germany? Well, they finally arrived! We weren’t too sure what to expect, however they arrived and they’re great (they are upside down…

Well, the slow cooker arrived on Saturday, which was jolly good. Unfortunately we realized we didn’t have any slow-cook food, so had to go shopping. Which was bad. The first and second of of November are big family holidays, so…

Our little white hen has gone broody. Happily, she seems quite content to be broody without sitting on any eggs, although we do have to pick her up occasionally to make sure that she’s not snuck a couple of eggs…