It's hammering it down - so bring on the girls to cheer us up!

I think the weather is telling me that I need a day of rest - well a rest from all the hard work up the allotment anyway.

I realised that it has been a while since you have seen my adorable bantam babes

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Here they were early yesterday morning pushing and shoving to be the first one through the door

Henrietta my Old English Game Bird is too dignified to join in the scrum

Snowy my Silver Seabright thinks that it is all a bit unladylike to do so too.

Looks like there are some insects to be had in the early morning dew on the lawn

So it is heads down, tails up, and get hunting - Freckles is getting big!

The three in the foreground from L-R are Bluebell, Modern Game Bird, Dolly Daydream, Ginger Silkie, Poppy, Golden Seabright

Mary, my Lemon Millefleur Sablepoot has just jumped up on the raised bed.

She loves playing hide and seek

And is often  hard to find.

Here's little Willow.  When she runs she looks just like Charlie Chaplin - minus the stick!  How she manages to keep herself so white is a mystery.  Her feathered feet get muddy of course - then by the morning they are snow white again!

 

 

 

 Off to find where they are laying their eggs.