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)