Chicken Day

Today, being in an Easter-y mood as we are, is hereby declared "Chicken Day".

Today we give thanks for the gift of the world's most numerous and useful bird. We will be carrying out the mystic ritual of Egg-rolling (not egg-throwing - that has to wait for Easter Day).

Charlii will be dressing up as a Rhode Island Red for today's Little Pebbles session.

We will all go and look at the Beaker Flock, and consider the lessons they teach us. How their strict pecking-order ensures peace and harmony.  How they toil not, nor do they spin, and yet Solomon in all his finery was unable to lay an egg - yet these little feathery girls can. What brilliance of design/evolution/random acccident/human meddling in genetics (delete as appropriate). We will give thanks for their innate knowledge of when to wake and when to go to roost - regular as a well-ordered Beaker Person.

And then we've got a special dinner. Don't want to spoil the surprise, but let's just say we've bought a catering pack of piri-piri sauce.