The Girls

In November, after a year of pestering and over-the-top egg usage, we welcomed two feathery friends into our lives. I can honestly say we have never looked back. Pearl and Polly are Lohmann Browns and started laying in February half term.


We got the girls when they were pullets, looking back they were so tiny and still made the cute 'cheep cheep' sound. Now, they are full on 'boawk boawkers' (perhaps this sound will only make sense if you are a full on mad chicken lady, as I now am!)

As we are currently in the midst of serious home improvements, we haven't had the opportunity to eat a lot of the eggs, so the neighbours have, very eagerly, took them off our hands! However, today, we had fried eggs and I have baked two cakes using fresh, Polly and Pearl eggs.







For anyone considering owning chickens, I would say 'go for it'. I love coming home to find Polly literally throwing herself at the pen in excitement and watching their attempts to escape when I open the door. Furthermore, they are relatively easy to care for and have a love for rice, which is easy, and cheap, to cook.

Em x

Books at my Bedside

After reading Sarah's blog, I really liked the idea of showing what books are by my bed. I have always loved having books to read in bed and like to have a variety.

There are some that remain there constantly, for example my chicken manual. I have recently taken the role of chicken keeper and have to say that I have become quite attached to my two feathery friends. This manual is a Hayne's manual, just like the car guides, but for chickens. A blog post about them will follow soon. I often pick this book up when they have done something new (like sneeze) or at the beginning of a month to check what I should be doing.

There are others that are there for work purposes: Arthur Miller's 'The Crucible' is one of my favourites and Curtis Jobling's Wereworld is there so I can read it for a workshop I am running. It wouldn't be something that I would pick up normally, but I want to make sure that I have read some of his work and have to say, I am really enjoying it. I love the sentence structure and vocabulary that he uses.

There are a variety of baking books because I often find that Clandestine Cake Club's Warrington announcement comes out around 9-10pm. This then involves are nail-biting few moments where I must get my RSVP in as soon as possible and start to plan my cake. This is the best place for them!

Finally, there are some on the shelf that I just want to read for pleasure. Sadly, it takes me a while to get through a book. However, I tend to read a lot more in the summer to balance this out.

So, that's my bookshelf and my books.

Emma x