The Free Range Egg and other stories
I feel the need to wax lyrical about the free range egg. This could be due to the fact that two people I know now supply me with them on a regular basis,the scone queen and the godson. The scone queen brings them into work whereby I leave out 2.50 for half a dozen. On the occasions I visit the godson, a far greater investment is required to support his back garden industry and I have been known to part with a fiver!Now I realise that this inflated offering is probably teaching the 13 year old a bad business lesson but I feel very virtuous and it does appear to make these eggs taste even better....or so I tell myself. Now the fact that I have these suppliers means that I don't have to go as far as keeping chickens myself...the latest must- have accessory.I reckon the Mad One would be great as a chicken breeder as lord knows every egg that goes past her gets fertilised ! Newly Single has a few interesting hen stories by the way, one including the kidnap and solitary confinement ( in ...