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maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 2 Jul 2013 18:22

I live in an urban part of Winchester, people have cats, dogs, rabbits & canaries.
Whilst preparing my dinner, I thought I heard a chicken. Then heard it again.
This got me thinking, if I was my chicken would I find it's clucking annoying?
If it was my neighbours chicken, would I find the clucking annoying?

I heard the noise again. Definitely a chicken. Had my neighbours got a chicken?
I opened the back door.
It seems I had a chicken - it was in my garden!! She was beautiful.
Oh - and there were my cats.
I scurried next door - no answer. Asked a passing man if he knew who kept chickens - that's another 'mad old bat' mark against me. :-(

Rushed to the shed, found a huge box, only to find it had gone into next doors garden. Now it's disappeared.

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad)

PricklyHolly

PricklyHolly Report 2 Jul 2013 18:26

So what will you have for sunday roast now then?

:-D

Researching:
"If I don't see you through the week.........I will see you through the window". :o))

GeordiePride

GeordiePride Report 2 Jul 2013 18:32

I deduce from your report that fowl play may have taken place.

GP

KittytheLearnerCook

KittytheLearnerCook Report 2 Jul 2013 18:43

Did she leave you a nice egg??

Researching:
Brockhurst Newman Pelham Parsons West Sussex Birth information for Thomas Parsons born in Cork 1818 mother Mary father ?Charles

Nolls from Harrogate

Nolls from Harrogate Report 2 Jul 2013 19:02

We were in a car park recently and looking out there was the most beautiful golden cockerel he had come right up to the car looking for food so was obviously used them, he ate some biscuits we had then wandered away.

Researching:
Gilmour/McSherry/Boyle/Mason/Robertson

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 2 Jul 2013 19:04

The chicken escaped unharmed - just checked for feathers.
She left nothing but a little guano. :-D

However, just after the chicken episode, I was about to grind pepper into my mashed potato - when the lid fell off, scattering whole peppercorns into my mash, over the worktop and floor :-|
Not nice spitting out whole peppercorns :-(

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad)

RolloTheRed

RolloTheRed Report 2 Jul 2013 19:06

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpJqeJ4Vxyo
:-D

Researching:
The Man In the High Castle

Cooper

Cooper Report 2 Jul 2013 19:10

:-D

Researching:
Helm Tappenden, Kitchen/Kitchin,(London) Cantwell (southern Ireland)

ChrisofWessex

ChrisofWessex Report 2 Jul 2013 22:56

Maggie - that happened to me in Grasmere - had just been served watercress soup - I decided it needed a bit of pepper - well I got it - the bottom of the pot and contents landed in the soup!

There was a sudden hush around the restaurant!!

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 2 Jul 2013 23:18

:-D Chris.
At least I hadn't paid an arm and a leg for mine - and could spit the peppercorns out without being watched :-D

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad)