Dinner..

The hens are laying like mad! I picked up about 17 eggs this morning and a short time later I went into the hen house and there were four hens all laying in the nesting boxes and several others queuing up!  Billie and Cliff came for supper and we sent them away with a whole tray!

We had a really lovely supper with Billie and Cliff. I did duck patė on English toast, chicken breast with chestnuts and apple and chocolate tart with a praline and cornflake base. I should have made the tart earlier as it was still warm and would have been better if it was cold. Oh well! It was a lovely evening - Billie and Cliff are very easy and nice. Poor Billie is knackered - she's had a really stressful time doing the accounts and with being overdrawn and problems with their internet and carte blue machine and she fell asleep at the table. Very flattering that she felt relaxed enough to sleep like that.

My plants are doing well - It's a week ago tomorrow that I planted them and there are 6 butternut squash showing their heads already and a couple of water melon. None of the other melons are really coming up yet, but nevertheless it is very exciting.