Chicken Boy: My Life With Hens (limited signed copies) Kitchen Ware and petrol pump

and petrol pump

The rounded handles offer a comfortable grip

The simple foliage

particularly the red Espelette pepper

but its upright growth means that it can be planted in a container or a smaller garden

Chicken Boy: My Life With Hens (limited signed copies) Kitchen Ware and petrol pumpGrowing up in an ex mining town in Nottinghamshire, the other kids in the playground called Arthur Parkinson 'Chicken Boy' due to his fascination with everything fowl. But the quiet fulfilment of keeping hens became his sanctuary, a tonic for mental and physical health, and in this memoir he details his connection with hens, his family and the natural world.