Category: Friesland Farm
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The farm, The fair & then to Guernsey 🇬🇬
Monday 16th Sept: Not a bad morning, overcast but warm enough and perfect for me to be getting on doing some jobs I want to get sorted. First the usual rounds, feeding, watering and letting out. Then onto watering some seedlings, winter spinach, radish and french beans, water the poly tunnels and then pick a…
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Bindweed, hazelnuts & a goose egg!
Monday 9th September: I have a diary that belonged to someone that lived in the cottage just up the road from where we live now, my Dad found it when Sue bought it and renovated it. It covers two years and is mostly about the weather, the routine, and small daily happenings, nothing unexpected, nothing…
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Jammin, not the musical kind 😜
I decided to change the theme layout of the blog this week to keep,you on your toes 😋 Monday 2nd September: Oooo we are proper rolling into Autumn now. Dad and Sue enjoyed their week and did some helpful jobs around the place, mowing, picking, weeding etc John was off as well and got a…
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The wrong shoes, plum moth and hard working Mums 😀
Monday 19th August: whoo hoo Monday again 😬 Not a bad day weatherwise so far, cool enough, a touch of sun, no rain and no wind 😀 After doing the morning stuff I got on in the garden, not veg gardening, today I am giving that a rest but flowers instead. I have a few…
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Apple picking, baking day & the Wildlife Park day out 🦁
Monday 12th August: A decent morning considering last nights storms, I helped John do the animals then got on with tidying up the hay bay in the barn. The hay gets everywhere once it’s opened, we have the big round bales, and most of it is now gone but I bagged up the last bits…
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Courgette soup, new hens, stormy weather & Tussie Mussies.
Sunday eve: I took a couple of ibrufen and as John was watching the F1 I decided to go outside and do a bit of pottering. Firstly I watered the tunnels and was delighted to see that the cucumbers and melons have begun to grown quite quickly, then I potted in some plants, blackcurrants, lupins…
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My birthday 🎂 caterpillar missiles, Lammas & a corn dolly.
Monday 29th July: Lovely morning, sunny but cool enough early on, John did the birds while I fed the torts and the rabbits/guineas, then I got straight on with some cleaning as Sam, Mia, George and Lucie are coming for the day today. As I have said before the self employed don’t get holiday pay,…
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Twins 😍😍 and most other jobs can wait 🤪
Monday 22nd July: Overcast this morning but muggy, I did the morning rounds but just before that and before we let anything else out we moved the ducklings, who are now 11 weeks old, round to the duck pen where they have more space and a bath they can get in if they want too…
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A fledgling, a rat, hopscotch and turkeys 😜
Monday again! 15th July: A pleasant enough overcast morning so great for me to get some stuff done. I mostly did picking and weeding, courgettes, French beans, broccoli , a pepper 😀 some cucumbers, raspberries, a few strawberries and blueberries and some flowers for the kitchen. I potted up a few strawberry runners for next…
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Found me Mojo, the kittens explore & ‘crappy to happy’
Monday 8th July: John is at home today and so he did the morning rounds and then went off to get feed, it meant that I could get straight on with the job of the day, housework 😜 not just a quick flick of the duster and a whizz with the hoover but strip the…
