Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[BDutch]

Isn't it odd how we remember the rogues? I was recently in a pub in London that claimed to be the oldest licensed premises there, and it counted Dick Turpin among its clientele. I guess it helps us form a quick mental picture of what things looked like at that sort of date.

Had to look that one up with google.
Never new highway men lived in an era when there were no highways.

The Dutch are probably more ashsmed about their villains.
But maybe even worse, we had slave trade villans in that time at sea and around the world of which the government was proud of. They even made statues for them.

I don’t know many legends of robbers and highway men in NL. Only one from Belgium (Jan de Lichte, bit like a Robin Hood but not with a happy ending) and a group called the Bokkerijders, that terrorised the south of the Netherlands/ Belgium when we were still one country.

Ps. De Bende van Jan De Lichte' can be seen on netflix.

Edited a forgotten o.

 

[Perris]

The Dutch are probably more ashsmed about their villains.
But maybe even worse, we had slave trade villans in that time at sea and around the world of which the government was proud of. They even made statues for them.

Bristol had one of those that made the news recently, when protesters pulled it down and threw it in the docks
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-52954994

 

[ManueB]

I've been busy. Families meeting friends and family spread all over Bristol. A wise policy in my book is not to let the various factions talk too much before they've got to know the person they are talking to a bit. This requires acivity. In my younger days this may well have involved the stiffest hike the eldset could cope with or some other sport type acivity; anything that keeps them slightly out of breath works well.
Saturday there was an age range from 32 to 70. One of the City guided tours seemed appropriate so that's what we did.
I'm not going to go through the stories associated with each picture. If anyone is that interested they have the city and enough info in the picture to find the history on the internet.
This is the oldest pub in Bristol. Blackbeard the privateer used to drink here.View attachment 3300613
This is one of Banksy's pieces of street art.
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Not Banksy.
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Cavalier and Roundhead having a dual. This is linked to Cromwell dismantling Bristol castle stone by stone.
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Very expensive houses.
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The last surviving section of the city wall.
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A couple of interesting buildings with history.
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I have no idea why this picture is in black and white.
Another of Blackbeards haunts and also the pub where Daniel Defoe met a real live castaway on which the story is loosley based.
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Thank you for the photo tour. It does seem like a beautiful city with an interesting history and cultural life. I must admit all I knew (and loved) of Bristol was the trip hop scene. And Banksy whose art I don't know whether I appreciate, but who I fell in love with when he funded the rescue boat Louise Michel.

It was mostly dry with occasional bursts of sunshine when I set off for the allotments. It started raining when I got there, stopped for half an hour and then carried on until after I had left. They did get out but weren't interested in staying out in the rain. Most of us sat in the new coop, me and a couple of others on the roost bar. I was just waitng for some smart arse to come along and ask me if I didn't think I was taking this chickens stuff a bit far.
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A donated bag of layers pellets from one of the allotment holders.
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Another label for you @Perris .

I don't think you're taking it too far A good architect will do some UX and why not test himself if his finished work meets it's goal. So, how confortable did you find the roost at Shadrach's folly ?

Saw Amadeo dancing round Neath this morning ... he may still have yet to crow, but his hormones are flowing - and he seems to have skipped the jerk teen phase and gone straight to behaving like a proper gentleman roo

I told you he would be a Don Juan ! Jerk teen is not for a rooster of his royal lineage .
If I may ask without being nosy, how is your flock doing healthwise ?

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good morning X Batts drizzled in the night here. Fall has fallen 57 today.

 

[Shadrach]

I wouldn't want to spend the night sitting on the bar.

 

[BDutch]

I wouldn't want to spend the night sitting on the bar.

Of course. In Dutch we say in the bar (café) or at the bar (where you order a beer in the café) . Sounds both a lot better than on the bar (on the roof or between the pints.

Edited typo.

 

[Shadrach]

Well, after a weekend of socializing I must confess to being somewhat fazed.
They've all gone home now and the next lot arrive on Thursday.

The capricious weather isn't helping. The run is awful. The tarpaulin is doing what I paid for and keeping the water out and according to an old friend who came down to the chickens with me, isn't going anywhere.
I can't adequately describe what a long term disaster sweeping the bedding and shite on to the floor and leaving it has been. Earth will turn to mud but it drains well compared to the layers of bedding. The chickens are using the roost bar in the day to get their feet out of the mud in bath coops. I think I'll make some portable roost bars or find some stumps.
The sun shone and then it didn't.

 

[Perris]

If I may ask without being nosy, how is your flock doing healthwise ?

We're good thanks; no sign that anyone else is ailing, at the moment

 

[Perris]

I can't adequately describe what a long term disaster sweeping the bedding and shite on to the floor and leaving it has been. Earth will turn to mud but it drains well compared to the layers of bedding.

Has anyone tried putting a layer of gravel down? the chickens will dig it in of course, and it will need topping up periodically, but it would keep their feet cleaner and drier while improving the drainage as it works in.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Birds on their roosting tables tonight tax paid