Having found out that Nutmeg was not the breed I was told on the phone, I have been hankering for a couple of real pekin bantams, so today we went down to Thorne's Garden Centre in Letchworth, where they have a good range of chickens. Unfortunately they had sold out of the gold partridge pekins, so we chose a lemon cuckoo and a black. They are extremely cute, and very tame compared to Angelica, which is just what I was hoping for.
Poor Richard - his wife has turned into another obsessive chicken lady!