Category: Friesland Farm

That last week seems to have shot past, the weather has not been up to much has it, cold winds, very cold nights and only one or two days when we saw the Sun, still we make the best of what we have got because we can’t change it! The most eventful time on the…

You will remember that I wrote last week about never being able to recall what I had been doing even though I had been busy all week, well this week I decided to write everything down, so now I know exactly what I have done 🙂 Monday started off with writing the blog then going…

I love the weekends when everyone one is home and the activity level is high, but I also quite like Monday mornings when normal routines resume and peace and quiet are all that is heard once more.  The dogs especially get more vocal over the weekend when there are lots of comings and goings, a…

Spring is officially here, although it seems more like Summer at the moment 🙂 The weather is beautiful, its uplifting after the long cold Winter and our motivation has gone into overdrive. We have had a very busy week and an even busier weekend, lots of tidying up to do and general maintenance such as altering gates…

I had a lovely weekend being thoroughly spoilt with presents, meals out, a bit of garden centre shopping and some Skyping with my lovely girls and their partners, I hope every Mum and Mother figure out there enjoyed themselves just as much. Spring is definitely leaping forward, the Equinox will soon be upon us and…

What an absolute stonker of a weekend for mid March! We couldn’t have asked for better weather than that and I hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did 🙂 I have been busy this week preparing the beds for imminent planting of vegetable seeds and plants, the weeds have been cleared in…

It is beautiful and sunny today but the North East wind is biting, over the weekend we have had an enormous amount of rain which is desperately needed but does mean the paddocks are squelching underfoot! During the week when the weather was a little better I spent one day weeding and digging over the…

I am an early bird this morning! I have had my medication upped for Thyroid and finally feel ‘normal’ again, consequently I have been very busy this week able to do jobs that should have already been done. I made a huge list of jobs that I would normally look at and think ‘when am…

Yet again I can’t believe how quickly the week has gone, I have found the energy and inclination to do quite a few jobs this week so maybe that’s why it has shot past. Firstly I replaced the roof on the greenhouse, the one that collapsed during the gales towards the end of last year,…

The type of week I have had this week, is the reason I began the blog in the first place, to make a permanent log of the things that are great and go according to plan and the things that go wrong. In my limited experience of this smallholding life I have found that things tend…