Category: Friesland Farm
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Lots of sunshine ☀️ Jobs completed (at last) and thunderstorms ⛈
Monday 16th April: Had a very busy day today! Mostly in the garden, I made a little strawberry bed inside the fruit cage and planted strawberry’s that had set themselves in various places, then I spent the rest of the time tidying up, pots that had got blown around, plants that didn’t make it through…
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Amazing smells of Spring, First pick of Rhubarb and new Guinea pigs.
Monday 10th April : Damp this morning with fine drizzle 😐 however it feels ok temperature wise. Did the morning rounds, 1 egg from the new ladies and evidence of eaten shell, I suspect as we moved them into the outdoor run, we actually do have a rat nicking them, no other reason for them…
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Beginnings, progress and endings.
Bank Holiday Monday 2nd April: Still raining 🌧 rained heavily in the night and as a consequence we now have the lake we usually have AND a tributary stream flowing into it across all the side paddocks, the hay barn is flooded, the stables are flooded, in fact, everywhere is bloody flooded. I know I…
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Jobs to do, manic egg sales and Eostre celebrations
Monday 26th March: A good productive day, John is off this week so we hoping to get a fair bit done, that’s the plan anyway! John went off to pick up a new batch of POL hens while I did the morning rounds. In the pen where we keep them he has installed some new…
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Wild garlic, pizza (but not as we know it) and springing forward.
Monday: 19th March I’m not sure if I like marking off the weeks with the date, time seems to fly past even faster! It’s still cold, the wind is still coming from the east and it’s bitter, hopefully it won’t be much longer before we see the temperatures rise, I’ve seriously considered moving somewhere warmer…
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Rain 😐 more bloody snow 😟 and a new Granddaughter 😍 😍
Monday 12th March: Monday morning and not a very inspiring one at that, the rain hasn’t stopped since late last night and everything is sodden this morning, the paddocks are mostly puddles of dirty water, the yard is turning into a stream and the veg beds, well let’s just say not much point even looking…
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Wormer, propagators and Laaaandon Town.
Apologies if anyone received a messed up copy of this weeks blog, I had a malfunction 🤪 Here is the correct one 😀 Monday 5th March: Pleasant enough this morning if a tad colder than yesterday. On the rounds this morning I was thinking we now have a lot of cleaning to do as the…
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The beast from the East and all that goes with it!
Monday 26th Feb: It is cold this morning but not as cold as I was expecting it to be but time enough for that. Did the morning stuff had to break all the water buckets and was glad we filled them yesterday, though prolonged cold will obviously bring problems further down the line. Made a…
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Cabbage seeds, cookery books and bird boxes.
Tuesday 20th Feb: Back to the routine today after a short break and guess what, it’s windy! It woke me up around 4.30am something was banging around luckily I eventually fell back to sleep, woke up again at 7 and it’s still windy. The greatest thing about the wind is that it’s drying up the…
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Wind, a fence and some much needed R&R 😀
Monday 12th Feb: What a fabulous day, after the endless miserable weather we have had today was welcomed with, let’s get busy, thoughts. To begin with it was still frozen but without that cold wind, so I began tidying up, putting away, picking wind blown paraphernalia up. By mid morning it was thawing but still…
