Comment by vodou
2 days ago
I remember this blog! It was posting diary entries 70 years after they were written. This was a good time in the history of Internet and the diary/blog ended at the dawn of the golden era of the "blogosphere".
George/Eric paid a lot of attention to how many eggs his hens laid. It almost became somewhat of a joke in the comments. But good content!
https://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/2008/12/01/11238/
Lots of great quotes (quite a few hen related):
> This morning a disaster. One hen dead, another evidently dying.
I am pretty sure he wrote more about hens and other birds than the ongoing world war.
My neighbor, who raises chickens for eggs, and has lost many to predation, has expressed grief over losing some of them.
She does not spend her time grieving the dead in various conflicts currently ongoing, although we both are saddened by them.
Proximity amplifies emotion.