The Henpals Diary

[sandy]

Hi gang
I am SO excited, we have had SARDINES Mum brought a tin out of her pocket and put it on top of our bedroom. Of course I had just read sardines live in tins so I was getting very excited. I jumped on the bin so I could reach the top of the cube. I have to get up that way because I have little legs(Georgina says it is because I am dumpy) . Then Georgina jumped up before me in one go and tried to open the tin. Of course when Olive heard beak taping she was really interested. We got bored after awhile as the tin was left while we had our house poo picked, even Georgie jumped down. After what seemed AGES there they were, in a bowl along with 11 of our heads! Everyone was after a mouthful and thats all we got, it was a very small tin! Deirdre reckons mum only got a small tin incase we didn't like them. Gabby they are so delicious, we reckon our mum must have read your mums diary to even know about sardines(as long as they dont start reading OUR diary
DeeDee Mahoney. aka Deirdre is most impressed at your successful assignments, she wonders if mum would let her go live with you so she could enjoy some intelligent company, cheek!
Ginger, we havent had porridge, Beryl reckons we should stay away from it if it 'Wigs" you out. The neighbours had chips from a fish and chip shop(mum said thats where they come from) they look like yummy yellowy slugs but there is no point trying to liberate them as mum says we will NEVER have chips! We are getting some corn before we go to bed, tonight it was getting dark so mum threw the corn in one place. Bet she wish she hadn't because of course I had to exert my authority over the underlings and got shouted at, again.
Beryl wants to know what our new mission can be now as we have cracked the sardines and we do get sweetcorn sometimes but for how long? Will we get wormy pellets again next week? And what has mum put on one of our beams? It looks like a huge long worm(we will stay away after knowing what we know about huge long worms from previous reports) though this one is not a fat worm, it is very thin and has glassy bits on it! Mum got all excited putting it up, hmmm we will have to wait and see unless any of you troops have any ideas?
Sleep tight my friends
Signing off
Gwen X the hen (007)

[lancashire lass]

Ginger Spice reporting in - just wanted to let you all know that our mam must have felt reeeeeaaallllly guilty for depriving us of our treats and not only did we start to get nice things to eat again, she even opened a tin of sweetcorn and gave us some mixed with a bit of mashed pilchards. Yum yum yum - so much to choose from, I shouldn't have hesitated because before I knew it, Scary knocked me flying out of the way so I had to just grab what I could before it was all gone. We begged for more but mam was laughing at our full crops swinging in her face and told us we'd burst at the seams if we ate any more. Doesn't she realise that we are deprived of food for going on 15 hours a day when it is dark! As for feeding that rat, he's a noisy eater at night - twice now he makes an almighty bang and shrieks out loud. Partying while we are asleep is not on. Mam said that it won't be long before he goes away and then we can have the run all to ourselves again.

Mam also told us that we are turning into proper ladies now and for Christmas we'll be getting a make over in the run with a proper sand bath built and have perches and ladders so that we don't have to fly or jump down from big heights as it will hurt if we land wrong. But I don't want a ladder because that means my high rise run will become a tourist attraction and that bully Scary will then be able to reach me in my safe haven Mam says it will be fine because there'll be other levels with different things to play with. She's even been shopping online and bought us a special toy for Christmas called a suet cage - not sure I like the sound of that. I'll let you know how we get on with it.

Signing off, Ginger Spice

[sandy]

Hello my friends
Well Wiggy & Co looks like it is just us then! Gabby and troops have liberated the hidden sweetcorn and Ginger Spice & fellow zigazaggers not only have been promised xmas presents but they are having a built on gym and leisure department, well done girls
All we could garner today was one yorkshire pudding and two potatoes between 11 of us! For goodness sake call that miniscule mouthful a treat? Ginger did you put out an advent calendar in your nestbox or have you hung up a stocking on the wire netting? I tried pretending my phone wasn't working and could I borrow mum's tonight so I could see what websites she has been on,I know what websites are now cause mum sometimes sits in with us and messes about on her phone and Elsa always gets on mum's lap. After a conflab this morning I relayed all your news and instructed Elsa to stop trying to pull mum's hair out and look at what she is looking at on her phone. Mum of course said if I had broken my phone I was very naughty(I said Beth dropped it) I should take good care of property as mum spends enough on us already so I had to say ok its working now. Well no xmas presents on the horizon, Elsa did take her role very seriously as she cannot believe I was actually talking to her and not chasing and jumping on her(I may do that later) so I beleive her. We were thinking about doing a ziggyzaggy dance(sure mum dosent know the accurate steps) the way Iris walks she could put on her own dance. Hmmm so come on Gabs and Ginge Wigs and I are awaiting your eggpertise.
Signing off for now
Gwen X the hen (007)
xxxxx

[HenPen]

Yes, that is right, we are definitely in need of help from the experts please. I am very impressed by Gabby and Ginger Spice's many successes... They have clearly got their mums exactly where they want them - as it should be. Good work ladies. Mind you, nice try at getting your mum's phone Gwen. You're obviously a smooth operator.

I would just like to correct our Capt Ginger - she has got a bit above herself and come over all "Toodle pip" and "what ho". Anyway I was NOT wigging out, I was trying to twerk and zigaziga at the same time. Admittedly I may have not quite got it right and ended up going pkaaaaaa and running around in circles with my wings out, but after all I am self taught.

One thing she is right about though, I do think that porridge stuff is very suspect and clearly not to be trusted.

Tonight mum checked on us by looking in the coop with her torch - so I thought I would take my chance and tapped on the side of the coop with my beak, morse code: "we want corn and sardines now". Silly woman didn't understand me *sigh*

What about if we all write a note to Santa?

[KarenE]

Hello successful troops!

Well what a bunch of clever successful girlies we all are! We have all cracked the Liberate the Sardines Campaign (pilchards count too!) and Operation Sweetcorn can now be put to bed - till the next time we need it...

Wiggy, I'm sure we can think of something to help you and your flock out. If zigaziga-ing and twerking and grass in your beaks isn't working then we need new tactics. How are you getting on with your moults? And try to look really really cold because mums' go soft if you're moulting and look cold.

A letter to santa also sounds good. Maybe we should all do one. Can anyone write people language?

In the meantime, all my flock have gone on strike to show our solidarity with your flock. Nuggets says it's our chicken duty to stand by our sisterhood in their hour of need. Will anyone else join the Sisterhood Strike For Wiggy?

Gwen X Hen, I think the glassy wormy string might be christmas lights so definitely don't try chewing on it or anything or you may end up crispy chicken strips. Get Beth to do it.

Mum has spent a bit of time with us in the garden the last few days as she has been off work, and she keeps singing this song about decking the halls. Nugget thought decking meant punching someone (I don't think she has the breeding we do, Gwen and fellow lovely ladies on here) but not sure why mum would be singing songs about punching walls with boughs of holly. Falalalala-dadalada or something. I wonder if this is the vocals for the zigaziga dance? Either way she seems to be getting excited, and is eyeing up our poor scrappy holly tree and all the ivy that grows along our fence.

Today in our garden - OUR garden - a big spiky tree has appeared. It's living in a bucket of water at the minute but it's right by the back door. We will be very displeased if the big spiky tree is allowed in the house when we are not - it will trail water and leaves everywhere and we only trail a little bit of poo. Most unfair. Nearly as unfair as not giving us treats, of which we never get enough. Today is a case in point - we have ONLY had corn, mealworms, mash and bread which i think we all agree is nowhere near enough. Mum even had the temerity to offer us a raspberry. What is that all about henpals? What a liberty.

Ginger Spice - your Christmas present sounds BRILLIANT! We are all really really jealous of your home spa and gym. Let's hope the rat doesn't get a membership, it sounds like he's living far too wild a life with all that banging and partying going on all night. You could set your high rise run up as a sauna, but not tell Scary or maybe the heat will mellow her out?

I do like the sound of mums' Christmas shopping, it sounds very worthwhile for us all! We're not sure what shopping our mum is doing for us but Nugget said last year they had sprouts and carrots and potatoes and stuffing and all sorts of lovely food, including even a bit of Christmas cake for afters! We weren't here then so we hope it happens again.

That could be our new campaign girls! The Christmas Dinner For All campaign! Hands up all those prepared to fight this good fight??

Signing off for the night,

Captain Gabby
Active member of the Sisterhood Strike for Wiggy
The 'Christmas Dinner For All' campaign lead

[sandy]

Hello sisters of the sisterhood
Christmas present sorted for us, omg is mum having a laugh! Deirdre took over my phone she pointed out mum uses it sometimes in the daytime and apparently as she is a member of the SIC she could do more advanced things like look up any orders mum has done on line. Well she has ordered us a christmas hen pack from the place we were liberated from, I ask you apple cider vinegar and hentastic. Mum gave us this a few months ago, no one was terribly impressed, so thats it no sweetcorn,mealworms or those sardines Beryl suggested Deirdre change the order but it has already been despatched. Iris said well just do another order but no one has a credit card so that fell flat. I cannot understand why I am not being particularly rewarded as mum was so please Beth's feathers are all grown on her back and no juicy skin is exposed. I mean it is obvious I have finally listened to mum's chastising and stopped having fun with Beth I am hot a happy henny!
Wiggy we really need to put your plan (J) into action WRITE TO SANTA, whoever Santa is? Wouldn't we be better writing to the famous Ginger or Rocky? I bet they speak bok bok.
Gabby thank you so much for saving me from danger yet again, the long slim worm hasn;t lit up yet though(love your suggesting re Beth ) I am confused why your mum is looking after a tree? All our trees are stuck in the ground? I don't think a tree will replace you in your mum's affections, I mean can it bok bok at her, entertain her dustbathing or sit on her lap?
Ooh I am so annoyed I am sleeping in the bedroom on my own!
Signing off in exasperation
Gwen X the hen (007)

[sandy]

Whoa we had a bowl of spuds today(mum has put the photos of our elegant dining on her diary) don't know if we will get them for christmas though unless we make a dinner to take to god daughter as mum is a total
I am posting my photo, I think all members need to ID themselves here(maybe not the SIC? Beryl said S may be Secret, Dee says its Special, Iris thinks its Sardines)
Here is my member photo

And just another one as I know people tell me I am so cute

Signing off
Gwen X the hen (007)
Posting photos has exhausted me

[lancashire lass]

Hello Ginger Spice signing in - sorry I've not been around much.

Since the worming week without treats, we've been on a hunger strike and pretended we will only eat treats by ignoring the pellets just to let our mam know that we appreciate the lovely things she brings. But the portions have definitely been getting on the small side so we've had no option but to eat pellets when she isn't looking. Scary got so miffed, she decided to take matters into her own wings and we now have 2 bare bum girls in the coop. My high rise run still comes in handy which is why I'm not looking forward to the make over we've been promised.

Christmas presents? Oh and who is Santa? Our mam told us we'd been very good girls this week laying all those eggs, although when she took one look at Posh's bare bum, she didn't look particularly happy when she went into the house, and then came back with the nasty spray and a new one called purple spray. Posh tried to escape but mam picked her up and put her on MY high rise run and now there is purple stain all up the wall. Next Baby got the purple spray under her tail too - wow, that was a sight to behold and we all stood there looking at it in amazement. Baby was mortified and tried to peck it away. When I got picked up, I just got the nasty tasting spray and somehow, Scary got away scot free So not fair.

Anyway our mam tried to take some photos of us while eating a tasty snack of shredded red cabbage, sweetcorn and frozen peas with some corn mix and how she thought we'd pose for the camera when there was a feast going off is anyone's guess. Anyway, here's a photo of me with Posh and Scary - take a good guess who is the greedy hen while I have the slender figure of an athlete:



Baby showing off before she got the purple treatment



Anyway, better sign off to get my beauty sleep - I've got a new job helping mam clean the coop in a morning so I need my wits about me. Speak to you all soon,

Ginger Spice

[KarenE]

Hello henpals

Well Gwen X Hen, don't you look lovely in your henshots? I think with gorgeous looks like that and your winning ways, there's no way your mum could resist giving you a Christmas dinner even if she is a big vegetable. Admittedly you might have to share it with your flock but that's the drawback of living in a socialist collective (which is what Nugget says we are now, in our continuing fight to spread the Chicken Revolution)

Nugget and I are still in full support of Wiggy and co but sadly Toffee has broken with the Sisterhood Strike and continues to pop out an egg every other day. She says she can't help it but we think she just lacks self discipline and the will to fight the oppressive forces that continue to deny us our Chicken Rights. That's what Nugget says anyway.

We are most upset - we have been denied our free range time this weekend. An absolute disgrace, keeping us confined to our run is a deprivation of liberty (so Nugget says - I just call it a right effin' liberty!) Apparently mum and dad have been out Christmas shopping, so all we can say is they better have come back LADEN with lovely pressies for us. Mum stuck a bit of cabbage on a stick in our run but I ask you henpals - what kind of compensation is that? If it had been a sweetcorn lollipop... but no. As delicious as it was, it aint SWEETCORN!

Your snack sounds delicious too Ginger - your brilliant gym and sauna comes fully equipped with a gourmet restaurant!

And as for your Christmas pressie Gwen Xena - what a liberty. Cider vinegar? That's practically medicine! Don't drink any Gwen - it's probably bad for you. Let Beth drink it instead.

And Ginger - your Christmas pressie isn't the purple spray is it? Oooh I hope not, that doesn't sound good at all. I wonder why your mam has coloured you all in around your bums? Perhaps so she could tell all the good girls from the horrible nasty Scary one, so she knows who to give treats to next time.

So here are our official Sisterhood photos:

Nugget and Toffee, with Jasper in the background. Nugget is the feisty one in the foreground, Toffee the rather dozy one behind her.



And me. I am shy and retiring as we all know, so there aren't many of me looking my best (cos mum can't shoot my best side)



Signing off for the night

Gabby
Still an active member of the Sisterhood Strike for Wiggy
Christmas Dinner for All campaign lead

[HenPen]

Gosh I do feel honoured to have such gorgeous hen pals (and hen pals' pals!) - what beautiful ladies you all are.

Sorry it has all been a bit quiet from my coop, ladies, but I have been moulting and mum says I look half the size. I have been back on strike for some time and am not a very happy girl really.

But, despite this second batch of mini moult - which is just seems to be thinning the feathers out - I am still looking an awful lot better than Cupid and Capt Ginger. The bare bum thing appears to be catching, Ginger Spice, and so is the purple spray and disgusting anti peck stuff. We have all gone off mum, I must say. She says she is going to take some photos of the bare bum girls - how intrusive (I will try and steal them and upload them for you if I get a chance).

Ginger and Cupid have been under attack from the Phantom Bottom Biter, and mum says she can see where the ends of my feathers have been nipped off, but I am not a baldie because I move fast and anyway, I started off with more feathers than anyone else.

Amber is completely unruffled, full feathered and looking her usual glamorous self - and we all know why that is, don't we? She is the Phantom Bottom Biter. Mind you, Miranda isn't above the odd peck and nobody pecks her. I am rather surprised Ginger is a victim really, since she was second hen. I think there may be some movement in the ranks. Poor Ginge. Does this mean she will be demoted to Pte Ginger, I wonder.

Thank you for your supportive strike, girls. More than my rotten lot will do - it was four eggs today again. Sisterhood? Apparently not here.

Good news (sort of). We got sardines. Now there's not much, apart from corn and grapes and mealworms, that we all agree on, but it turns out we all HATE sardines. Bleurgh. So we won't be having those again.

I have drafted a note to Santa (he is a man who gives presents to you if you have been good... So that rules out Amber and Scary, eh?.... and he speaks all languages, even chicken). You are all welcome to copy it and add anything extra you want to ask him for, then leave it at the door of the coop. I have written mine in poo, as I didn't have any ink, but there is always LOADS of poo about:


Dear Santa,

We have been very good girls, except Amber, and would like a Corn on the Cob lollipop each and I would like to try some of those roastie potatoes things.

And Ginger and Cupid would like some new bottie feathers, and Cupid needs a toupée.

Miranda could do with a sense of humour
And Amber needs a heart and I need some courage and a brain.
(Oh no, sorry, mum says to get those things I have to write to the Wizard of Oz not Santa)

Lots of love
Wiggy and the girls.

Good luck fellow treat lovers,
Your good friend,
Wiggy Woo

[KarenE]

Hello henpals, Captain Gabby reporting in!

I'm so sorry you're still feeling grotty Wiggy, and that you have a naughty bottom pincher about the place. Now I like a bottom about as much as the next hen (who doesn't?), but I do not understand this fixation some of our sisterhood have with our posteriors and especially with our rear end feathers. Are they extra tasty? I have to say, ours are usually petty yukky especially when we're moulting or whatever, which we all are at the moment, although Nugget is insisting that us losing the odd feather here and there is NOTHING compared to the torment that she'd had to go through since the summer. She's such a drama queen.

You've shocked us all to the core though Wiggy. How - HOW???? - can you all - ALL??? - NOT LIKE SARDINES???? Even Nugget was speechless when she found that out. We all think that the purple spray must've interfered with your taste buds and so a Plan to deal with Amber is desperately needed. Do you have any big sparkly wiggly worms like Gwen Hen has, that perhaps you could persuade Amber to nibble on? Not to become crispy fried you understand, just to knock some sense into her?

You have worried Nugget with your sad tale of Ginger being possibly demoted. Nugget clawed her way to the top once our former head hen Rexie died. Since I read out about Captain Ginger, she keeps reminding us that she's a Commander and a benevolent dictator (as all good top hens should be) although i have a suspicion that true socialist collectives like wot we are supposed to live in don't actually have a hierarchical power structure. When I said this to Nugget, she just said she'd tell Toffee that i was really second in command (hence my rank of Captain) and not Official Bottom Hen as we have led Toffee to believe (she hasn't twigged that's why she's a Private) which would not be good news, as Toffee might make a bid for power and as we already know, she is MASSIVE. Not only would I be bottom hen again, I would be a squished flat bottom hen!

Crack on with that Amber plan Wiggy, we need to make sure that as a priority member of the SIC, Ginger is protected!

I'm afraid our supportive strike has gone a bit pear shaped. Toffee continues to willfully break ranks, in the belief that eggs = treats, and I'm afraid that another egg mysteriously keeps appearing in the nestbox. I'm convinced its Nugget, but she denies it and says I'm egging in my sleep. It's possible - I do sleep a lot, and she is a Commander. We tried Wiggy, but egging is mysterious!

we thought your idea of a letter to santa was excellent, so we used Toffee's poo (of which there is LOADS) to write ours. Nugget is going to hide it in her hole tomorrow - we googled santa and apparently he has elves (who are green chickens apparently) who will come and fetch our letter and give it to him.


Dear Santa,

We have been very good girls all year and have eaten our pellets and everything. We would like more sweetcorn in the freezer for us, and sardines and a Christmas dinner. We especially would like to have roastie potatoes too and yorkshire puds as we have heard they are very good and healthy for active girls like us.

We would also like Toffee to go on a diet and to poo less in our bedrooms please.

We would like all our henpals to also get lovely presents too, and can we especially ask that Amber in Wiggy's flock finds something else to chew on that isn't bottom feathers. Perhaps she needs lots of roastie potatoes too.

Nugget asks can she have a chicken revolution this year please?

With love from
Gabby, Nugget and Toffee

Signing off as I really must get my beauty sleep!
Captain Gabby

[HenPen]

Girls... girls... girls... Guess what? It worked! Already!
Clearly Santa likes poo letters more than normal ones, because I heard most humans have to wait until Christmas Day for their presents, but we got our corn on the cob lollipop early. yummy yummy (mostly) in my tummy

Look





And, oh dear, look at the purple bottom girls


(Poor old Ginger, what a humiliation. I look like I have a lumpy beak in this one, but it's just more of the getting food round your mouth and looking cute thing - after all, we want more of this yummy grub.)


(Cupid always has her bum in the air. You can't get a photo of her face. Isn't she a baldie? Poor thing, I thought, until she went for me and made me shriek and run.)

So obviously Santa is very happy to help a hen in need (of treats) - give it a go Gwen and Ginger Spice! Hope your brilliant letter works tomorrow Gabby!

I did mention the wiggly light up worm to Cupid and Ginger and they think that sounds like a pretty good Amber solution, but they are feeling pretty vengeful after having the purple spray and the nasty tasting spray (I won't be mentioning that I have put their bottoms all over the interweb. I don't want them crispy frying me!)

Wiggy Woo,
Member of the Santa Fanclub
Member of the No Sardines For Us, Our Henpals Can Have Them Alliance
VERY active member of the Christmas Dinner for All Campaign

[lancashire lass]

Hiya all Ginger Spice reporting in ....

Not much to add except our mam was so proud of us this last week - she had loads of egg orders and asked us nicely to lay lots of eggs. So we obliged, an egg from each of us, every single day. We know we are good girls and our mam tells us every day and how clever we are, but she seemed especially pleased because she had sold all the eggs and now had enough money to buy us an early present. Scary was so excited, she ran around in circles and forgot to eat any bum feathers (though I suspect the nasty spray had something to do with that)

So on Saturday mam went to the chicken shop where they sell all sorts of things for us girls and came back with a big bale of Bliss bedding for our coop (ooooooh, sounds er bliss), and a big bag of mixed grit (well, I suppose the oyster shell is nice but not the treat I was expecting) but then, wait for it girls a bag of treat with dried shrimp and silkworms in a yummy seed mix. Wow, forget the mealworms - the shrimps were so delish and moreish. Isn't our mam just the best This afternoon she braved the hailstones and dug up a big pile of earthworms for us too. And it's not even Christmas day yet - I wonder if there will be more? Maybe I will give Wiggy's suggestion a bit of thought and write a letter to Santa and we can have some sweetcorn lollipops too.

Going back to Scary, when Baby got purple sprayed on her bum, she was very upset but mam told her that she looked fashionably punk so now she is just so smug and proudly shows her rear end to all and sundry. Posh on the other hand is upset because no-one really notices hers. Scary has asked if I'd like to join the purple bottom club but I declined and have made sure I'm not in the vicinity of her beak. She still got me when I was busy eating but then she was racing to eat all the shrimp up and she was irked that I was sharing in the feast.

Well, better get ready for bed. Night night all,

Ginger Spice

[sandy]

Hello sisters far and wide(like Toffee )
Gwen Hen reporting in a bit late. I was going to beak yesterday but mum was too upset to let me have my phone! Posh girl Georgina didn't want to play yesterday so she got a lift upto the big house( I went there once when I was very poorly) I could see mum was holding her tightly under one arm and clutching the handle on the bridge with her hand. Mum was walking very slowly instead of doing her sliding action she usually does! When it was dark I opted to sleep in the bedroom cause no one else was in it, I was just dozing off when I had a scary dream. I dreamt that I was being smothered and squashed! I woke up with a start and I WAS being smothered and squashed, mum had opened the side door and was putting Georgie on my head. Mum made a loud noise, sad sorry to me and lifted Georgie up and put her down by the side of me. Well I wasn't going to share a bedroom with her, I might've caught something what with Georgie being sickly so moved to the perch. Georgie then followed me and had the cheek to squash up between me and Olive, who luckily was so dopey she didn't sleep peck me. Mum came down very early this morning, it was still dark but most of us were up. She looked so happy when Georgie went up to her and started pecking at her legs, so I guess she didnt have any dreaded lurgy.
Wiggy, you lucky hennies, we had the weirdest treat today which mum shared with the neighbours too, PINK STUFF? She scattered all this pink powder over the muddy bits when it was raining and then used out wonderful xmas present of the cider vinegar and poured it in the big puddles. We avoided the pink stuff like we avoid the lots of weird mushrooms that are growing in our run, mum said it smelt lovely, just like E.T.'s forest, who???
We cannot join in the egg revolt, today EVERYONE laid, though one was broken cause some dumbo laid it on the hard rung and it fell and cracked and one was a jelly softie which of course was Georgina's. Mum as had lots of big orders so we have been very good today, just hope egg laying for orders means treats for us! I am wondering if Millie,Lucy,Star and Silkiebabe(neighbours) are on strike because their daddy is expecting a lot of relatives over christmas and asked mum if he could have a dozen or so on xmas eve. We did give those girls a smug look.
Oh girlies all those purple bottoms, we must be behind in fashion cause my lot usually get purpled on their combs. Beth of course had a purple back, I had decided if I left it alone for awhile I would be in this Santa persons good books, hmm now there is no juicy exposed skin so I am deciding what other part of her I can peck at(after xmas of course).
Ginger Spice , lurve your photos by the way, why is Scary such a naughty girl? She looks just like Bella who was such a placid girl, we thought all bluebelles were quiet good girls?What are shrimps?They sound good but I was a bit worried about silkworms, do they look like the ones that come out of your bottie when you are having worming pellets? We have bliss bedding cause mum ran out of hemp, we dont care what it is as long as we can amuse mum by rearranging it when mum had put it down nicely.
Wiggy, we want a sweetcorn lolly, get your mum to put it on her diary and show mum what it looks like cause of course we dont want mums looking at OUR diary. Lurve your photos too, your naughty girl looks just like Star who is another total softie. Maybe Amber and Scary should live on their own together to sort themselves out.
Captain Gabby I lurve your photos too, you aren't kidding about Private Toffee are you?
I shall compose our letter to Santa tomorrow cause I am shattered but wanted to let you all know how gorgeous you all look(no one can be as gorgeous as me) .
Signing off for now
Gwen X the hen(007)

[sandy]

Dear Santa

Please can I have cream legs instead of pink ones, thankyou Iris x
I just want a quiet life, Deirdre x
I want lots of things to peck at please Santa, Olive x
I want mum to sit down more so I can have more lap time, Beryl x
I want to be top hen , Ruby
I would like a mirror please, Georgina
I would like never to lay two eggs at once, Janet
I would like to have lap time without Beryl pushing me off, Martha-Joans
I would like Ruby to start sleeping in the cube again! Elsa
I would like to live here for ever, please don't send me back to that other place, I will put up with being bottom hen, I can run faster than tubs(Gwen) Beth xxxxx
I want mealworms, sardines,sunflower seeds, maggots, mealworms,sweetcorn,the biccie I had when I was poorly, mealworms,roasties,spuds in jackets,mealworms and more mealworms, thankyou Santa person lots of love and boks Gwen xxxxx
(Tee-hee told the others Santa couldn't bring food)
Have a lovely christmas Nugget,Gabby,Toffee,Cupid,Wiggy,Miranda,Amber,Ginger,Ginger Spice,Baby,Scary,Posh,Scary,Spike,Bruce and Pat xxxxxxxxxxx


P.S.
This is Deirdre, Gwen we are not THAT stupid, all we really want for christmas apart from YOUR request is for you to talk chicken and stop conversing like a teddy growler