June 12 launch

by | May 28, 2010 | Writing

So – the Barracks Lane Community garden chicken launch was good fun.  Lots of people squeezed into a yurt to hear me read from my tome, and to grill me on the pros of keeping chooks. Questions from what to feed them to how to kill them…Only problem was...

Chicken jumpers

by | May 25, 2010 | Writing

My aunt Wendy has just sent me a hilarious missive – a leaflet that says, Help us knit hen jumpers! Reading my chapter about 007 the ex-bat, she was reminded of the time she knitted woolies for bald battery hens. Her charity ‘Little hen rescue’...

Media coverage – May 22

by | May 24, 2010 | Uncategorized

So – the Mail and the Guardian ran my chick lit on the same day. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1279939/Hen-pecked-How-pair-chickens-urban-garden-taught-family-lessons-life.html...

WIN A COOP

by | May 20, 2010 | Uncategorized

With the launch of the book comes a competition with a fab coop as the prize – go on, don’t be shy – you know you know the answer, even before you’ve read the book!