This fine dude is Trumpet, He is one of our chickens, number 2 in the pecking order, number 1 is Bruno...(update 06/Dec/04: Unfortunatly Bruno has passed away, he has gone to the big hen house in the sky! he dropped off his perch during a thunder storm! he was our Rhode Island Red Cock, then the hens in order Phoebe, Sheila, Snowball, Madras, Korma & Rogan

lincoln Castle

Lincoln Cathedral

The Ducks: Fat, Boy & Slim seen here on Duck Island, a nuclear free zone and independant state in the middle of the Ducklantic at Northfield Farm during the big freeze of Wed 28th Jan 2004

The First chick of 2004 arrived on Sun 22nd Feb, seen here with proud mum Phoebe, it's been named Tikka !

NEWS FLASH.....Slim is no longer! The drake we thought was a duck, known as Slim, seen above on Duck island has been extradited to whence he came for falsely impersonating a duck! !

Tikka is now 6mths old and working her way up the pecking order !

Pheobe strikes again!............. 10 new chicks this time

Tikka at 6 Mths