Micha und Pine, told me they'd had a double-yolked egg off one of their ducks I had to tell them very sadly that we'd never had one from our ducks - only off our chickens.That was a couple of days ago, and lo and behold, this morning there was a monster egg in the bottom hut! And because our Campbell Hedda only lays white eggs this huge thing was either from Anabelle or Candida, amazing.
It weighs 109 g, the four eggs behind it, also from this morning, weighed 65, 65, 71 und 77 g. There surely must be 2 yolks in that long egg, don't you think?
To compare for size, front left is one of Hedda's big eggs from 5.5.
After I had to stand helplessly watching from a window yesterday morning how the three little brutes made Circle's head bleed I determined to grab her out of the hut this morning for some cream treatment. With John's help I managed to get her - she struggled like mad - and put tea tree cream where she'd been injured and lots of vaseline on the back of her head in the hope that the attackers couldn't get a grip. What did the ungrateful little madam do? Spent the next two hours trying to preen all that cream off!
It's mid-afternoon now and I've just come indoors from taking pictures in the garden and retrieving one of my garden clogs which I'd hurled at the drakes when they'd got Circle again ..... all seems peaceful at present:
Circle is hiding on the far right here.
After the disappointment with the frost damage I'd not been taking much notice of the garden the last couple of days, and while my back had been turned a great many blooms have suddenly made an appearance:
This yellow rose on the left was at the entrance to White Gables when we came in 1998. It had made a huge hedge, but then got diseased. I dug it all out, but transplanted a small piece into one of the long borders - where it, and especially its many and vicious thorns - made a nuisance of itself and I've been digging it up whenever I saw it sprouting. But it never managed to flower again .................. until now!
The alliums are opening their big, round, purple flower heads all over the place as well.
As I hadn't taken any pictures of Captain and his 3 girls lately I went down towards the big pond to see what they were doing, and a very peaceful scene greeted me:
It didn't stay peaceful for long; two or more mallards took off straight away and the others started walking towards the field to wait until I'd gone again. Of course, our little group of four sat up then to see what was going on,
so I thought I'd go and leave them alone.
On the way back uphill I thought John's painting of the outside walls of the extension looked great:
And looking to the left through the Weigelia - that's also started to bloom while I wasn't looking - there was another peaceful scene with the group of 9:
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