Forgive another boring Veg and Hen blog

Kate Winslett has hatched out 2 chicks so far, and seems to be coping well juggling chicks eggs and sudden motherhood. She is a hefty fat hen , so I have worries that she may crush them as she did her own eggs, but so far so good! The sides of her nesting box seem a little steep for any unsteady chick to be able to climb back in if accidentally turfed out, so I have banked it up with sawdust, other than that I have left them all well alone.
The daughters of the lady that was buried last week have visited the allotment almost daily. They bring bread for the hens and biscuits for the pigs, and I think the peace that the animals bring them obviously helps with their grief just a tiny bit.- funny how that can happen eh?
Today's main job has been the broad bean harvest, an hour and a half sped by as I shelled hundreds of pods ready for the freezer whilst listening to Radio 7's production of It Had To Be Murder which was the original book which the film Rear Window was based upon. The book was ok but not a patch on Hitchcock's psycho babbling film production! And there was no Thelma Ritter character!
This afternoon I had a phone call from the girl from Penyfford asking if she could take Poppy off my hands. She is a nice girl with a mass of animals at home, who knows her stuff when it comes to hens, so of course I said yes. She collected him this afternoon and he was quite well behaved when I caught him. I will be sorry to see the boy go, but I must get a little less sentimental when it comes to the cockerels, I cannot have too many. So with a sign he is off to pastures new and I am left with the bouncy Scotty, the reliable Rogo and the diffident Stanley oh and not forgetting the bantam males Roger and Pirrie.