This morning the rain is driving across the fields and downs in silver swathes. Glad to say the young pullets and cockerels all enjoyed school yesterday and came home over excited and then suddenly fell asleep. Today, although eager, they shivered and shuddered down the footpath and across the field to the shelter of the little sheds that were their classrooms, stopping only to shake the rain from their backs and then scurry along again. I find there is something cosy about being inside a shed in the heavy rain - as long as there aren't any leaks - and Mandy, Binny (a rosecomb who likes to scruddle in a bin) and I - cosyed down and watched the rain splattering outside the barn door. Harvest was happily sitting in her pool enjoying the deluge, but all the rest of us were tucked away in the stable and barn, or underneath Bird and Ellen's house. Oh! And Kizzie is sunbathing in unbroken sunshine and temperatures of 30 degrees. Gordon x