Domestic pecking order
Chickens, apparently and slightly ludicrously being the new rock 'n roll, or the new black, or whatever, it has all been getting very hip round ours.
In the spirit of my new 'just do it' motto - which has got me into all sorts of situations, but that's another story - I have, this week, acquired three ex-battery hens.
And very lovely and comical they are too with their funny little ways, despite scary dinosaur feet and beady, all-knowing eyes.
Family looked at me like I had fallen off my perch, obviously, when I first hatched my plan, younger teenage son saying he wanted a dog not a bunch of baldy hens.
And husband, despite spending hours putting together coop and Fort Knoxing it against foxy-type visitors, with a competitive they-are-not-getting-the-better-of-me incentive, declared he was then washing his hands of the whole project.
He had more than done his bit thanks. He was blocking his ears and singing loudly from now on in.
Come the rescue day though - with, I have to say, a brilliantly efficient and friendly service put in place by the Battery Hen Welfare Trust - everyone mucked in to settle in the Threadbare Three.
And by the end of the week sons were collecting the odd egg and showing no fear.
Husband has done a complete U-turn, of course, and is now boss of the hens which is a bit, I tell him, 'clucking annoying' to be honest.
Still, family and hen bonding has gone better than expected, and I even stopped myself naming one after my mother-in-law.
You can't really call a hen 'Janet' now can you, however tempting it is.
Joys of the checkout
You have plenty of life's little irritations up your sleeve, it seems.
One reader silently screams in the supermarket when check-out staff make no eye contact with her and chat loudly about their drunken nights out with colleagues.
And another has steam coming out of her ears when people walking on the pavement have no awareness about getting out of way.
An irritation shared is an irritation halved remember, so keep them coming.
Now, eyeballs rolling and eyebrows rising together.
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