Geek Alert

Men are geeks
Its a fact of life.
It is not a criticism , it is merely an observation!
Readers may think that I am just a bit of an animal geek ( what I don't know about hen psychology can be written on the back of a postage stamp!) but the real truth of my geek abilities centre around a phenomenal /sad bastard knowledge about every 1970 disaster movie
(In 2001 when I started a Film Studies degree at Sheffield University I  even got a merit for my essay on "The role of women in the disaster Movies of the 1970s")
There is a geeky blog that I regularly visit....affable psychiatric nurse Dan  over at http://allthatcomeswithit.com/ provides an eclectic look at the modern world and also provides in his sister blog  "The Midnight Movie Club" a wry look at those non arthouse but nevertheless entertaining movie productions of the 1980s and 1990s!
Dan and I met when he took four Indian runners off me to augment his little poultry flock and recently he asked me to wax lyrical over my three most favourite disaster movies (my ramblings have been recorded and added to his weekly movie podcast !)-http://itunes.apple.com/podcast/lee-dans-midnight-movie-club/id348480956
If you enjoy movies and like to listen to a blokey chat go to his website and give Lee and Dan's Midnight Movie chats a go.....its great fun

I will end with a sadish little postscript. Cora, who has sat patiently on her eggs for nearly two weeks was attacked by another hen who managed to get into her broody box. She was driven off her nest and the eggs were stone cold when I finally came to check on her.

I gave Cora a huge feed then I replaced her non viable eggs with fresh ones as bless her, she remained terribly broody. It is not ideal for an already slightly weakened hen to re sit on eggs but she is so broody there is little else I can do.