Building a hen house

I’ve been asked if the hen house I’ve started to build is based on a particular design and, if so, where did the design come from.

It’s not built to a design, nor were the broody coop and temporary run I’ve built from scratch.

This is partly from a desire not to spend money on designs (most of the books on building hen houses have poor reviews) and partly because all the designs I’ve seen assume that you have enough money to buy new timber.

Good energy, appalling company

Three years ago, the Other Half and I decided that we’d change our electricity supplier to one that only used renewable sources to generate energy.

We settled on a company that was then known as Unite, finding it via a page on the Liberal Democrat website that listed the company as the only energy supplier that used renewables only.

We’d come across a few mentions of Unite before that, but decided to click through from the Liberal Democrats and sign up as new customers.