Swift Half update - 9th November 2010

• Another horrible start to the day with high winds and horizontal rain. Better (MUCH better) is promised tomorrow, but on Thursday we'll be back to horizontal driving rain and gale force winds again....
• Malu brought his first mees inside the house last night - alive of course. I chased him out with it (a young woodmouse) - and he decided to play with it for over an hour.
• Cutlery (our "special hen") polished off the mangled corpse this afternoon. Sometimes this surprises people - when they hear of the predatory nature of hens. On more than one occasion, I've had to chase the hens 'round the garden as they tried to rip apart a live frog they'd caught in the long grass surrounding the pond. Hens eat meat - live meat - and enjoy doing so....