The Arrival Of The Queens Of Sheba…
March 18, 2008
At about 2:45pm yesterday we took delivery of two little chickens. Charlie and Lola are the latest additions to our family. The red carpet got rolled out and The Queens of Sheba took their place in the garden. They pecked around for a while, tried a bit of their food (GM Free and Organic of course) and then pecked about a little bit more. They clucked for a while and after having had their photographs taken, they pecked around for little while longer. We had to go out and get some tent pegs to ensure total Fox proofedness and check out a supplier for their next huge bag of food (apparently it only costs 3p per chicken per day) and, by the time we got back, they’d got bored with pecking around and had taken themselves to bed in their Eglu. This is a picture of the nice man building the Eglu.
And what a fine Eglu it is. It stands proud and orange in our garden for all to see. In fact, I think that people in planes can see it from their windows and will wonder what it is. They might even mention it on their postcards home. You know the type of thing, “Having a lovely time in… (substitute some far off sunny and exotic place), wish you were here. By the way, we spotted a large, bright orange thing in somebody’s garden as we were flying over The Midlands. Did ‘The Bruce’ report any UFO activity on the day we left?”
So, all in all we’re very pleased with Charlie and Lola. They get up in the morning, do their own thing all day and then take themselves to bed in the evenings. We’ll get them some toys to play with soon. I thought the Internet might be good. They can check out all their favourite chicken sites at night in their bright orange Eglu. And of course, log into the This Eden blog and read about themselves. This is a picture of the girls. we’ll get a better piccie up as soon as we get them to slow down for a while!
Talking of the Internet, we had a good weekend on the site and have already had some very positive feedback on our new Baby Basket. We’ve sold two so far and apparently both recipients were thrilled by the baskets they received. Check it out on thiseden.com . In fact, we’d be very interested to know what you think. Send us an email from the site and let us know if there are any other things you’d like to see go into gift baskets.
More playing in the garden this weekend. I went out and bought some herbs last Friday and they’ll be going in then. There’s no holding me back now. I hear that Tarragon goes very nicely with….. Hmmmmmm. So, the question for today’s post is: Now we have two little feathered friends of our own, will we ever eat Coq Au Vin again? Or will we just be doing Prawn Curry in the slowcooker from now on? Do prawns make good pets?
