Category: Friesland Farm
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The normal routine, a few blips and some sad times x
Sorry this is late you will find out why when you get to Saturday 😢 Monday 13th April 2020: I’m losing track of how long we have been in lockdown now 🙄 I think we are going into week 4. The temperature has dropped by 10 degrees today, hugely noticeable. I am definitely struggling today,…
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Sowing and growing, reading & Easter 🐣
Monday 6th April 2020: And here we are again back round to Monday 😜 The weather is fair to good and so we were again working outside while we can. I spent the morning watering the greenhouse, moving things around, potting some bits on etc and then planting the first lot of mange-tout out in…
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What day is it? 😂 a missing guinea pig, did the cat do it? 🤔
I Monday 30 March 2020: And just like that it’s Monday again 😜 albeit different Mondays to what we once had as obviously John is at home. This morning he went out first thing to get the van an MOT, the government announced, the day after he had booked it in, that MOTs would be…
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Glorious days, another rabbit & work, work, work.
Monday 23rd March 2020: I have had the best day of the year so far lol, the sun has shone beautifully, it was warm and I have spent a day as happy as the pig in the proverbial 😀 After getting the morning rounds done we set about sorting out the tractor and chains to…
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Muddling on, madness & Mothers Day
Monday March 16th 2020: A cold start to the day but it yielded a glorious day which I took full advantage of. I started off indoors hoovering and polishing so that I could dedicate more time to outside 😋 Once the animal rounds were done I took the dahlia tubers from the back toilet and…
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A pandemic, turkey eggs & the first rhubarb
Monday 9th March 2020: Well it’s me on me tod this morning and it’s been an interesting start to the day. Firstly, the horse was out, how come it happens on my shift? This time of the year the grass is growing but not very fast and to be honest there is not a lot…
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Afternoon tea, potatoes planted & Jobs list ticked off.
Monday 2nd March 2020: The beginning of Johns week off, the weather is on our side for today at least. We both did the morning rounds then straight on with the job of the day, the fence at the end of the veg garden. This is a job that had to be completed in one…
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Painting, pancake day, leap day and plenty of rain 🌧
Monday 24th February 2020: Another Monday, another crap weather day, still blowing around and still raining on and off. Never mind though I had a project to do today, paint the kitchen, just the bottom end as the rest is tiled. It’s a good way to wonder where on Earth the hours disappeared too mind,…
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Crap weather, Dotty Iron Man rabbit & decisions, decisions.
A bit late, sorry 😜 normal service will return when I feel better 🤒 Monday 17th Feb 2020: We are back round to Monday again how did that happen 😜 The remnants of storm Dennis have still been felt, lashings of rain, some gusts of winds, to be honest I expected the lake to have…
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Cold winds, fence repairs, my seed stash and storm Dennis 😏
Monday 10th Feb 2020: Oooooh it’s Monday again 😏 Some Monday’s I don’t mind, the ones where the weather is fair to good but it’s cold out and we still have the blustery remnants of the storm so I’m not really feeling this one lol. Still the winds blew over night, not quite so fierce…
