Hello and welcome to The Compost Bin. I'm Compostwoman and I live with my family in rural Herefordshire. We have nearly four acres of garden and woodland, all managed organically and to Permaculture principles, which we share with Chickens, Cats and assorted wildlife. We also grow a lot of our own food, run courses in all sorts of things and make a lot of compost!

I am a Master Composter and have spent more than a decade as a volunteer Community Compost adviser with Garden Organic and my local Council.
I'm a self employed Environmental Educator so I run workshops and events where I talk about compost, veg growing, chicken keeping, cooking, preserving and sustainable living. I also run crafts workshops and Forest School/outdoor play sessions in our wood.

We try to live a more self sufficient lifestyle here, as best we can, while still having a comfortable life and lots of fun.


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Friday 19 December 2008

A visitor in my kitchen today

While I was wrapping some presents in the lower kitchen today, I went to throw some crumbs to the hens, and the "back door" robin came and sat on a bucket by the opened back door. He/she often does this, and occasionally gets some crumbs or bits of food....

but today the silly thing decided to come INTO the house to get the crumbs...

and then got panicked and couldn't get out again..
I eventually managed to catch the poor, scared little bird in my hand, it let me gently take hold of it and release it outside again.

but not before it had blessed my kitchen floor.....
Sidney was VERY annoyed that he had missed a "lunch on the wing". I had had to throw him out pronto during the robin catching session, as he came to see what all the fuss was about and wanted to do his own brand of "helping"! so I had to unceremoniously throw him out of the kitchen while we caught the Robin and released it.
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5 comments:

  1. Anonymous20 December 2008 at 15:43

    wow, what a tame little robin.

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  2. Anonymous20 December 2008 at 19:17

    Oh bless, we adore Robins and have a curious visitor most days to our garden. Its amazing how brave they can be!

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  3. Anonymous20 December 2008 at 19:17

    Oh bless, we adore Robins and have a curious visitor most days to our garden. Its amazing how brave they can be!

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  4. Greentwinsmummy21 December 2008 at 10:08

    oh how wonderful! I adore robins,I associate them with my grandad & whenever I see one I take it as a wee hullo from him
    GTM x

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  5. Compostwoman21 December 2008 at 17:15

    The Robin tried to get in AGAIN today!

    I am going to have to watch it if I have the back door open I think, as whilst I am honoured a Robin wants to be with me, I don't think a kitchen with 4 cats in it is a very good place for a Robin to be!

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