14th August 2023

Thank you, Hannah Britt of the Daily Express, for this full page feature sharing some of our story, top tips and featuring our book! I love this central photo, showing…

How exciting – Our book was featured in The Daily Mail today!

Find out more about Living the Good Life in the City here.

When our friends at Omlet got in touch to say that they were writing a new book about chickens and could I contribute, of course I said yes! The Omlet team have been coming to Hen Corner for staff training over many years and so it was no surprise when it was my quiche recipe that they asked for, as they’d each enjoyed it for lunch on our courses.

I love June. It’s halfway between New Year and Christmas, usually very sunny, and the month of my birthday! As the temperatures continue to soar, let’s see how we can all handle the heat and, with a little bit of planning, keep our cool…

We are blessing our apples trees with a good old wassail in this month’s column, The Good Life in the City, in Country Living Magazine. Including tips on winter pruning and planting new fruit trees…

I know that there’s National Week for almost anything nowadays, but this week, 10th-16th August, is celebrating two of my favourite things that I’ve been especially excited about recently.

I’ve been making marmalade for many years now, every year that we’ve lived in the corner house (that’s been 12 years), and for a good few years before that. I remember the first time that I stocked up on Seville Oranges, I had great plans to boil up buckets of the stuff, unfortunately, I learnt some important lessons the hard way.

We’ve been keeping hens in London since 2007 and it was on moving to the house in the corner of the street, the following year, that opened up the possibilities of increasing the size of the flock, indulging in different types of chickens, and welcoming others to come and see how easy it is to keep chickens in a London back garden.

This week, Hen Corner celebrated it’s 8th Birthday! Looking back we’ve had some great fun, however, we’ve got a sneaky feeling that the best is yet to come…
When guests come and join us for our courses, we tell the story of how Hen Corner began…

Country Living Magazine’s Spring Fair moves to Alexandra Palace and they are building us our very own chicken enclosure in the Small Holding Garden allowing us to bring a selection of chickens with us for the week!  Read all about it here.