Category: Friesland Farm
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Runner bean chutney, Christmas mincemeat & Pontack sauce.
Monday: Again already!Good job we took the afternoon off yesterday as it rained, a lot and it’s still soggy this morning. John is mostly at home this week give or take a couple of little jobs to fit in. The new chickens will arrive Wednesday so still need to finish everything off in their hut…
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Apples, tomatoes and another grandchild on the way 👶
Bank Holiday Monday: Phew what a scorcher of a day that was, hottest on record for the time of year, floods and hurricanes in Texas, wildfires in Oregon and also Australia these are coming up on my news feeds from Facebook friends around the world so I better not complain it’s too hot 😝 I…
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Blackberries, bantams and a drone.
Monday: Peculiar day but then I wouldn’t expect anything less with a solar eclipse happening even if we can’t see it. The weather was just an added peculiarly, my weather app showed black clouds, just that, no rain or anything so I couldn’t really work out what the day was going to do, well it…
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Hatchlings, butter making and Plum sauce.
Monday: Mid August and summer appears to have left us lol, dry this morning but colder than I would like for the time of year, the rain was not far away either! Did the rounds all was well then turned on the water in the big tunnel and forgot to turn it off until later…
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Greengage, Victoria’s, its a plum week 😜
Monday morning: I have done the feed rounds this morning and got a soaking while I was at it, that fine drizzle is a pain you go out thinking it’s not that bad but somehow it manages to seep in and drench you. To be honest I am knackered this morning, still tired from 9…
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Butterflies, pitta bread & Countryfile Live 😀
Monday: I was a bit preoccupied last week what with visitors and John off and forgot to mention that I got some bantam eggs and they are now in the incubator, we also had no hot water as the immersion heater went on Friday so cold showers all round until its fixed, I have ordered…
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Short and sweet
Monday: I thought I was doing really well this morning, John is off for the week to do farm stuff providing he doesn’t get endless phone calls 😜 and we were up for an early start. The weather is a bit crap for July and Dad is visiting so I thought I will get some…
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A potato bird scarer, self set potatoes, apple jelly.
Monday: All was going well until I discovered that all my lovely pears have been stripped from the tree, it was loaded with them and now they are all gone? One of two things, either we have night time visitors picking their own or more likely the bloody rooks are doing it, we have had…
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Courgettes, courgettes and many more courgettes 😜
Monday: It’s cooler this morning which means it’s a lot easier to be motivated as I’m not sweating doing the morning rounds. I did a bit of watering but we are expecting rain tomorrow so I have left most of the garden, if it doesn’t come I shall be watering for hours 😝 Went to Millets…
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Life on the farm, warts and all 😜
Monday again 😜 Where does the time go? Still no rain and things are looking a bit desperate, I watered the fruit trees we planted in the front paddock as they are only a couple of years old and look like they are flagging. After doing the feed routine and nothing untoward happened, I went…
