I thought it might be nice to pass the time sharing some photos we take during the lockdown. I'm finding things in the house and garden, plants are my starting point. This is a plant that flowers about four times a year; these were taken two days apart garden-7 by Dan, on Flickr flowers-12 by Dan, on Flickr
Nice to see the Christmas cactus in bloom. Mine used to be really early and over by now. I got some eggs from the butcher the other day. Free range, organic and white! Haven't seen white hens eggs for years.
So it's a Christmas cactus! It sits above a radiator and keeps giving us these wonderful flowers. Which breed gives white eggs? I heard someone talking about white eggs the other day, but I don't think I was paying attention.
What mine used to love was on an overcast but warm day, take them outside and water them all over with a watering can! I used to see the new growth afterwards all over them!
A handful of chicken breeds lay blue/green eggs. They're not commercial breeds and the eggs taste no different to white or brown, but they're a good money spinner to a certain shopper demographic.
Should add that would be the same demographic that would be horrified if they knew the hens were genetically modified.
I challenged my Workshop peeps to take ten photos of the same room every day for a week. Today is Day 4. Things are getting...abstract. Definitely a hen. A brown hen. Lynn rescues ex battery hensand gives them a decent end of life oncethefactory has declaredthem eggless Nearly all of them start laying again after awhile
We get blue eggs, white eggs and brown eggs from various breeds, depending on where we shop. I often poach different eggs together. We can tell apart some of the eggs with no difficulty. Often do a blind taste for my wife. Not saying it's because they are blue as such but that some eggs are far nicer.
Taste is down to what the hens have been fed on. Unless your eggs have come from hens that have been housed together and fed the same diet, then there will be variation in flavour.