Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

5 February 2013

Radish-the-Resident-Chicken was less than pleased with the King parrots that came in response to her Tasty Treats strategy. She classed them as more "pretty-boy" birds that would not be able to organise a chook raffle **, let alone be of use fighting for world domination in her avian army.

**NB: Radish is under the impression that a chook raffle involves lots of chickens lining up to buy tickets to win fantastic prizes, like a bag of worms. Hopefully she won't find out the less palatable truth.

The cockatoos cometh

3 February 2013

That's more like it! Putting out all manner of tasty treats, Radish-the-Resident-Chicken is using the "Bread and Circuses" approach to attract applicants to her avian army. She has struck gold, or at least sulphur, with the arrival of a fierce flock of fighting cockatoos.

Contemplation

27 January 2013

Amidst the detritus of Christmas / New Year celebrations, Chocolate Bunny is in a pensive mood. He is puzzled by his complete lack of success, despite his best efforts, in obtaining an i-anything. Undaunted, and ever the optimist, he is now planning his approach to the Easter Bunny that, he imagines, may see him launched into the beckoning telecommunications i-world.

The Help

24 December 2012

Chocolate Bunny LOVES to help with the Christmas wrapping...and secretly checks out whether there are any telecommunications-device presents with his name on them.

Chocolate Bunny day dreams

17 November 2012

Over a leisurely, alfresco dinner, Chocolate Bunny plans his Christmas wish list. The top items to date are the latest i-phone, i-pad and i-carrot.

Egg envy

14 October 2012

The Snork Maiden's elation at learning how to lay eggs is short-lived. She now has serious egg-envy, and can be found frequenting chicken chat rooms at all hours of the day and night, trying to pick up some tips on laying super sized eggs, in an effort to out-do Radish.

Echo’s Most Excellent Adventure

23 September 2012

Disappointed that the hatching of her army of eggs is taking longer than she expected, Radish has placed an advertisement at the local shops for avian mercenaries. She has only had one response to date - from Echo the Eclectus. Echo made a special trip to Joyfallee for an interview. He tried to convince Radish that he would be an outstanding asset to the army - he would be able to distract the enemy with his bright colours and raucous voice, allowing Radish to dart in for the kill. Radish was less than impressed and advised him not to give up his day job. Having spent his last cracker on travel to Joyfallee, Echo is not sure how he will get home again, but he is not too worried, as he is quite enjoying his mini-break...apart from the advances of the strange brown hoppity thing with unnecessarily long ears, who seems never to have been introduced to the concept of personal space.

Radish’s brilliant idea

18 September 2012

In her quest for world domination, Radish is hatching a clever plan to populate Joyfallee with an army of hundreds of mini-Radishes. The first step involves finding a secret place to lay her eggs where no one will ever, ever find them....

The appearance of eggs

9 September 2012

Despairing of ever being taught anything even vaguely useful by Radish, The Snork Maiden has taken matters into her own claws and worked out how to lay eggs....hooray!

Mrs Beaut turns her hoof to cultivation

Horses' Birthday 2012

Inspired by the chickens' horticultural activities (including vigorous digging and scratching in mulch, controlling insect pests by eating them without fear or favour, and almost continuous production of fertiliser), Mrs Beaut has taken up gardening in her dotage. She is especially proud of the crop of daffodils she has grown in her paddock.

Radish dreams of glory (again)

30 June 2012

Radish-the-Resident-Chicken takes the "resident" part a little too literally and believes that, with 5 acres over which to roam, all self respecting chickens should spend 99.9% of their time at the front door of the "Big House" (and leave copious amounts of chicken by-products as testament to the time spent there). 

Regrettably she has caught sight of the rabbit show jumps set up indoors for the entertainment of Chocolate Bunny. She is considering trying to pass for a rabbit (obviously pretending that her wings are ears), so that she can enter rabbit show jumping events. She figures that she will be a shoo-in to win all of these competitions as she will be able to fly over all the jumps (cleverly disguising her wings as madly flapping "ears")...she has visions of Olympic glory and is checking out cheap flights to London.

Chicklet Bunny

June 2012

Frustrated by the continued blanket ban on his access to telecommunication devices, Chocolate Bunny spends his time working on his best chicken impressions (standing on two legs and pretending that his ears are wings), in the hope of scoring a guest appearance in the Chicken Diaries.....dream on Choccy.

Free at last!

24 June 2012

Having completed their intensive training at chicken claw/boot camp, Anzac and The Snork Maiden are now free to roam the length and breadth of Joyfallee. They passed their training with flying colours and are now proficient in essential chicken skills like coming when called and being patted without complaining. They seem to spend a high proportion of their time putting as much distance as they can between themselves and Radish.

Radish and the compost bins

12 May 2012

Radish-the-resident-chicken has now become the self-appointed Queen-of-the-Compost-Bins. She takes her new position very seriously and can be found guarding the compost treasure from all would -be invaders. She has diligently been practising her defence tactics on Anzac and The Snork Maiden, and is optimistic that suitably fierce chickeny squawks, and rapid fire pecks will keep the bins invader free.

Radish's prayers are answered

25 April 2012

Radish-the-Resident-Chicken, to her surprise and delight, discovers after a lifetime of 
being the bottom of the pecking order, the joys of being Top Chook.

Day 1: Anzac Day. Two very beautiful chickens arrive and attempt, graciously, to fit their new names - Anzac (of course) and The Snork Maiden. They are a lttle overwhelmed by sky, grass, and Radish-the-resident-chicken. Radish, intoxicated with previously unexperienced power, sets about teaching them exactly who is the leader of the pack......or flock.

   

Day 4: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" - Radish-the-Resident-Chicken, and erstwhile lowest in the pecking order, now insists on being addressed as "Your Majesty".

Day 5: In which Anzac and The Snork Maiden are coming to the realisation that being a chicken at Joyfallee involves a lot of being picked up and patted. They greet this with a mixture of good grace and bewilderment.

The New Arrivals

25 April 2012



Welcome to Joyfallee Anzac and The Snork Maiden!

The Chicken Diaries - In the Beginning

March 2012

After a lifetime spent with the company of her chickeny mates, Radish-the-Resident-Chicken has found herself alone, having outlived all of them. 

She misses them all the time…or most of the time…except for the times when she remembers that she was always at the bottom of the pecking order. This position in the chicken hierarchy made for a somewhat troubled existence, in which she was often to be found being chastised by her feathered companions, or roaming the 5 acres of Joyfallee in search of her friends, who developed a clever knack of avoiding her for much of the time. Radish was blissfully unaware of this avoidance behaviour, happy in the misconception that the sudden disappearance of chickens while she was  preoccupied catching worms was a natural phenomenon.