Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Helen and the Hen

This is Kerstin Rodgers' photo, taken at Vauxhall City Farm and published in the Record Mirror in 1982.
About four years later I went back with a group of kids (I was working as a youth worker at the time) and picked up another hen. City kids- they refused to sit next to me, or anywhere near me, on the bus on the way back, because they thought it was so disgusting to touch a hen.
The horse clearly thought that she was the star of the show.
Kerstin has a food blog at marmitelover.blogspot.com
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6 comments:

  1. Anne4:04 pm

    Brilliant photo!

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  2. Helen McCookerybook4:22 pm

    Ha ha! Kerstin's a great photographer and it was a really good laugh doing this. That farm had the biggest pig in the Universe in a shed.

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  3. Anonymous6:38 pm

    I didn't realise you wrote freight train!

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  4. Helen McCookerybook7:10 pm

    Probably not the one you're thinking of, Anonymous.
    the Helen and the Horns one, here:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJOzHmS6Zqk

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  5. A Jockey3:52 pm

    There's also that Disabled Riding Centre in Mays Lne. Bnt. (plenty of "Nags" there)

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  6. Lestor Piggott4:29 pm

    Is that Horse running in the 4.30 @ Kempton Pk. Whats the Odds!

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