Home is where the heart is

25 March 2015

Chocolate Bunny quite likes his new sign, but suggests it would more appropriately be placed on the front door of the Joyfallee house. 

Lateral thinker

21 March 2015

Hildegarde von Joyfallee is putting her skills learnt while practising to be a chicken spy to good use. She often manages to remain unobserved by her friends to scoff up the random pile of oats that descends on occasion from the heavens, thus avoiding the melee over the more obvious oats in a cup (a tussle from which she inevitably emerges the loser). To assist in her task she whispers a mantra that she is rather proud to have invented, lending heavily on ideas she picked up while reading about Arya in The Game of Thrones: “Black as a shadow, still as a salad sandwich, quiet as a feather duster”. 

Her invisibility-cloak-like ability doesn’t always stand her in good stead, however, and oftentimes sees her being trampled in a rush of chicken feet when the oat cup is emptied and the oat pile discovered.

Decor

6 March 2015

For the very latest in décor, it’s hard to go past the rabbit cushion as a must-have, up-to-the-minute lounge accessory. Rumour has it that contestants on the Block have snapped these up for their secret weapon room reveals. 

Top Brass

1 March 2015

The newly self-appointed CEO has declared Joyfallee a Banana Republic. He is not quite up to speed with the meaning of the term, but firmly believes that anything involving bananas has to be good.

Manager in the making

28 February 2015

Chocolate Bunny loves to lend a paw in the Home Office. Yesterday he took on the job of lying under the desk and catching up on some Zzzzs for the team. At this point in time his upcoming performance review is looking shaky. 

The Prodigal Chicken

19 February 2015

Joyfallee is wreathed in smiles today - that which was lost is found. Yesterday Etoile Filante failed to report to barracks for the evening roll call. One of the residents of Joyfallee was to be found far into the night fruitlessly, and increasingly mournfully, searching and calling for the errant Etoile. The worst was feared and it appeared Etoile may have lived up to her name (shooting star), with a bright and glittery, but much too short, life. The above mentioned Joyfallee resident was again out at first light, this time looking for feathers with a heavy heart. You will imagine, gentle reader, the surprise and joy that greeted the appearance of the AWOL Etoile Filante, feathers in situ and unruffled, at the chicken house door, looking for breakfast. Etoile has remained tight-beaked about her overnight escapades, but, given the paucity of eggs at Joyfallee, the involvement of an illicit egg-exchange racket is not beyond the bounds of possibility. 

The Ghost of Chickens Passed

7 February 2015

“It was a dark and stormy night”…and Princess Sparkles was regaling the other chickens with tales handed down (or more accurately clawed down) from chicken to chicken. She was keeping them enthralled with the story of Lucy-Falcon-Chicken – so named for her penchant for perching on the nearest falconer’s arm. From here, as legend has it, she would launch herself into space and fly for a distance of at least 6 inches before plummeting to earth in a flail of flapping wings, guaranteed to capture any airborne creatures unwise enough to remain in her path. On hearing this tale of derring-do Hildegard began to wonder if she should give up her ambitions to be a chicken spy and take up a more lofty calling -  although she envisioned she might need the aid of a step ladder to reach the arms of any passing falconers.