No eggs from the chucks today and only one yesterday after three eggless days. I really enjoyed having a day at home with Hedley today. I have been slowly contemplating from escaping my career/winter rut but enjoyed a nice long walk to the beach at Thorness with Hedley. From a distance we saw approx 20 curlew fly up from a field, 157 pale-bellied brent geese and 3 oystercatcher. Hedley was really good on his lead...but once off the lead went mud bathing and found some other labradors and dogs to play with before I had chance to call him back and re-lead him and ask permission for him to play.

I think ...reading back my last couple of posts...that I just needed a holiday. And we have just had three days away...still on the island. We tried out our new tent camping. We slept really well the first night but the second day and night it was really windy and I just did not feel right..quite anxious actually. Today it has been calmer though and I slept o.k. We went back to the Alverstone Mead hide and fed and photographed red squirrels. We counted three individuals including a darker furred version I called "blackie". I gave blood for the second time today and this time thankfully did not faint. I had a siesta and ate loads of pasta before hand just in case though!

My estimate is that today 27th August (over one month of laying) that our chickens have laid approx. 50 eggs. Though I haven't been blogging and recording eggs every day this is an estimate based on the fact we normally get two eggs a day and only about three times there has only been one egg. If this is the case we will have had 8 boxes worth of six eggs. That is really about £9.20 of eggs which is the equivalent of one £8 chicken paying for itself!! (allowing the bit extra towards feed and pellets)

We are back home from a long weekend in France...narrowly catching our Eastern Air flight again which was fortunately delayed (Samuel had remembered the wrong time and we were in a panic!!! This is the second time he has done this to me!!!)

We arrived home to hear that our chickens have been escaping and need their wings clipping but have laid THEIR FIRST TWO EGGS.

Have not written in this blog for nearly five months as we are dealing with the aftermath of our wonderful, amazing and expensive wedding. Nearly one year in our house and seven weeks married so far!!! Bet the time goes quickly.