At Last! A New Hen House

Martin upgrades to a recycled plastic coop and run. But all does not go quite according to plan…

- Martin Gurdon

The Facebook message was appropriate: ‘Did Mrs G trick you into her humane husband trap with a piece of chocolate cake?’

I’d uploaded a picture onto the Facebook social media site of our attempts to put together a Solway Recycling hen house and extended run, after I’d become trapped inside it. My wife found taking a picture of this happy scene irresistible. You might ask ‘why didn’t he look at the instructions?’ Well, this hefty structure arrived without instructions explaining how to put it together.