Keeping hens — and indeed all livestock — has proven tricky this Spring and Summer, due to the extreme heart, and lack of rain. The once green grass is now brown, dry and lifeless; my hens spend their ...

We usually think of rhyme as a musical device found only in poems. But, in fact, rhyme is the name of the game. Rhyme appeals so powerfully to the human ear that, if we listen carefully, we can ...