Chicken Things

The wife of the New Neighbour (the one with 'My Man' for the allotment) (and who is still rowing with the farmer about the lambs) was very confused yesterday afternoon. She had let out Ally & Pally and He had let out our chickens at the same time. A & P came to investigate Our pen and ours wandered over to where A & P live. So when the wife came out (in designer welly boots she found it difficult to walk straight in) to put hers away she found ours in there and vice versa. Found it extremely hard to comprehend. Probably because of the several drinks she had been having with friends all afternoon. She is fast going off A & P - Not used to looking after chickens and they haven't laid a single egg yet.

He has invented a charming way of driving the chickens around when they don't want go go back home: 2 spare sticks from the peas held out in a V shape. If He walks fast enough the chickens think they are trapped between the sticks and go where he points them. Gets tricky when a blackcurrant bush is in the way though. And think He found the gooseberry bush rather painful.