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People have decorated and given eggs to each other for hundreds of years, as a symbol of new life that grows in the spring.

Week 6: Why buy presents when you can give eggs?

As building work continues at the Pearson’s, Lucy has discovered how to keep the builders happy: baking cakes with the chickens’ eggs!

One thing that I have learned so far, as someone new to chicken keeping, is that eggs make it much easier to say thank you. Not big overblown gestures, but just a simple: ‘Cheers, I appreciate what you did for me gift with eggs’.

Thank you

As regular readers will know, there is building work going on at our house. The back has been demolished and an extension is being constructed. You hear of lots of horror stories about this sort of thing, but thanks, in part, to our four lovely chickens and the cakes I have made with their eggs, that hasn’t happened here.

Dave, our builder, is partial to a coffee and walnut cake with his builder’s tea. But making cakes is not my forte – they’re often known as Pavement Cakes! So in order to remedy this and Dave’s penchant for coffee and walnut cake, I decamped to my mother-in-law’s to learn the art of baking.

When elevenses came round (yes, builders do really have elevenses) the next day, Dave and his team tucked in to the best cake I have ever made! 

The next opportunity I had to say ‘cheers’ was when the roofers turned up a few days later… Again, amid the brick dust and chaos, out came the frying pan and I cooked them all bacon and organic free-range egg butties. Now the roof looks absolutely fantastic!

So to all of you out there who are wondering how to say a meaningful ‘Thank You’ to someone, don’t say it with flowers, say it with eggs!

This has got me thinking though, how can we show our appreciation to our chickens?

More of that next time!

Next time: cooking a feast

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