Have been worried about Fizz, my lovely blue egg layer, the last few days. Caught her sleeping outside in the run a couple of mornings, once surrounded by belly feathers. I've also caught her on the nest box a few times, but no egg. Then today she just lay down in the run and didn't move at all. Also she hadn't laid for a few days.

So I brought her in the house and fed her some porrige with grapes and raisins - whereupon she nearly took my fingers off! No problems there then. Did a humongous poop in my laundry basket - quite normal.

Decided to go for warming the undercarriage in case she was brewing a softie, so dunked her in a sinkful of warm water for a while then gave her knickers a blow dry. She didn't mind this too much - sat still and shot me the odd evil eye every few minutes.

That done, popped her back in the run and locked her in whilst the others were free ranging. She disappeared into the eglu and sat on the roosting bars in a major sulk, then shuffled onto the nest box to sleep again. That's when I realised that, rather than having a stuck egg, she might actually be broody - in which case warming her undercarriage was maybe not such a good idea.

But she finally pulled her finger out and layed an egg a couple of hours later, jumped up and ran out to rejoin her friends as if nothing had happened. Little madam!

I've got a small plastic greenhouse thingy with loads of seeds in it - tommys, peppers, lettuce, cucumbers, radish etc. As it's been such a lovely day I left the front cover rolled up. Went into town to take James for his drum lesson and when i came home 2 hours later the wind had blown the whole thing over and I was left with a heap of plant pots, compost and mangled seedlings.  I could have cried! In the end I did manage to rescue the tomato and pepper seedlings. Also rescued some lettuces that were nearly big enough to start cutting (rinsed them and served them up with tea! ). Need to do a bit more work tomorrow tidying up and replanting my radishes and cucumbers. At least the hens enjoyed themselves digging through the spilled compost for juicy lettuce seedlings. So they'll all have the runs tomorrow. At least someone enjoyed eating them!