A few weeks ago our nest was about as empty as it could get.  Neither of our boys were planning on coming home for Easter and their Christmas visit was long behind us.  As I moved the chick incubator into a son’s old bedroom I couldn’t help being struck by the irony of hatching eggs [...]

  If the conditions of our northern roads are not bad enough all by themselves, we have to contend with a virtual Noah’s Ark of animals doing the 20 metre dash across our highways and byways. There seems to be even more than the usual flashing of hooves, paws and wings in front of my [...]

 An egg is truly a miraculous object; the purple and red foil, the dark chocolate shell, the creamy centres. How do they get those in there?   It’s another that miracle I didn’t gain more over Easter than I did.  I think I burned off all the calories running up and down the stairs to check [...]

With hatching eggs winging their way towards me through the postal service I dug out my ancient incubator and set it up in a spare bedroom and soon had it clucking along at a perfect 38 degrees Celsius.  A friend had a question about the hatching eggs.  “How do they ship them?  In an insulated [...]