I set up a WhatsApp group for the locals, so I can let them know when I have eggs available.
“Hello Richard!” they’ll message, “Any eggs available today?”
At this time of year, with an average of 4 eggs daily, the answer is invariably ‘yes!’, and they’ll pop round, cash in hand, 20 minutes later.
There’s something deeply satisfying about the whole arrangement.
I also have a standing order (6 eggs/fortnight) and an advance order for Easter Saturday, so I have to watch supplies, but I still had 2 eggs at lunch today, as well as enough to make gelato and pavlova.
In news to warm the cockles of Henry’s, I planted out my potatoes today. Jenny has been chitting the Maris Pipers and the Charlottes since January, and now they’re looking alien enough to go in the ground. It’s also past the Spring Solstice, so the time is right, and in they go.
I’ve got 2 rows of six of each, plus a couple of tubs for the leftovers. It’s taken about 8 years but the main ‘physic’ patch in the garden felt like real soil this afternoon, so we’re hopeful for a decent crop.
Po-tay-toes
Consider the cockles warmed. However, we aren’t going to grow much this year. Instead I am digging a very large pond. On the hen front we have Egg Envy. Our hens are rather elderly and slowly dying off – we haven’t had any eggs for months.
I might have pond envy. Do send pics!