Wednesday 1st June (Chickens and not Bunnies)


Mr. Kite looked out of The Joint window to see four  clucking chickens. Two were brown, one white and a dominant grey-black one. Now being a bird-watcher Mr. Kite noted they all had different coloured  plumage and feet. However they were all the same shape as they strutted along in a group clucking happily as they picked at morsels of food on the ground.

These 'cluckers', living not too far away from Bourg-en-Bresse, have serious competition and have to meet high expectations because poulet de Bresse is a superior chicken and is the only chicken in France granted an appellation d'origine controlee. Mr. Kite thought that these four chickens, although not superior, were pretty smart free range chickens. The question Mr. Kite ask is, 'who will eat them; the fox or the people?

On a breezy cloudy day Mr. Kite has decided to watch birds from the comfort of The Joint. So far the list is Magpie, Blackbird and Jay. Later a Robin popped by and a Red Squirrel entertained Mr. Kita and His Lady by climbing onto a plastic chair to leap onto a table and then walk up a hammock string into a tree and away into a drey.

Now on a cool rainy day in the France the bar opened early and Mr. Kite had a tipple of Leffe Blond and a few Kronenbourg's. Cheers from Mr. Kite.