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His hens have produced almost 30 chicks over the summer, and Hugh's looking to the young cockerals to provide the main course for the feast. The trick of course is working out which are the boys and which are the girls. Not always easy with youngsters. Being free-range, farmyard birds they're on the rangey side, but Hugh also has a cunning plan for cooking them to ensure maximum tenderness. He joins local potter Tim Hurn at the potters wheel and together they create ten chicken bricks (or at least Tim creates them and Hugh cocks his up). The bricks are to be fired in Tim's immense wood-fired kiln, that needs constant stoking for 2 days and a night. It's a great excuse for a bonfire night party, and Hugh has offered to provide firey home made pizzas for the revellers. It's also the time of year for the final flush of wild mushrooms - perfect for Hugh's Autumn Feast if only he can find them. Hugh's mushroom mate John Wright has long harboured a fantasy of searching from the air and thank