Category: Friesland Farm

What a week we have had, hence the title, if we didn’t have a laugh about it, we would certainly be very down! Actually it wasnt so much as a bad week as one bad day, and I did check on the calendar that the Friday wasnt the 13th! The most awful discovery on that…

Well I hate to say it again but there are signs of an early Autumn! Just as the Tortoises came out of hibernation early, they are going to bed early too! I thought perhaps one of them was ill, he had taken himself off into the house, so after a day or so I thought…

August is upon us and this is the time of the year when as a gardener you take a look round and assess how things are going, what went right and what went wrong, why, and how to change it or improve it for next year. Unless you are a gardener extraordinaire there will always be…

Good morning, and at last we have had a few sunny days in a row! Make the most of it, there is definitely and Autumn chill in the air in the mornings! Last night we lost our electric supply at about 7.30pm, luckily we had just finished eating our roast but after about an hour…

I feel compelled to mention the weather again this week, awful, is the only word I can use, but if you thought it was a modern phenomena think again. I happen to have a diary written by a chap in the locality, it is for the year 1901, he was a farmer and most of…

I tried writing the blog yesterday, but it just wasnt flowing so I thought I would leave it until today when I might have better focus! Not much out of the ordinary has been happening this week although we have been very busy cutting back hedges, and generally smarting the front up, we have had a…

I usually write about general day-to-day goings on around the farm and the little things that are funny, but I read an article this week that reminded me why I got started in all this in the first place. The Food Standard Agency has  ‘approved  the sale of food from cloned animals without labels’. Shoppers…

I am conscious that every blog seems to have a weather report of one kind or another so today I am not going to mention it at all!! I kept my camera with me today and took three photo’s, one that made me laugh, one that was taken during a relaxation moment and one of…

I’m a bit late doing the blog today but with good reason, after a trip to dermatology, I am not allowed out in the midday sun, so needed to get all the jobs done first and blog later!! It’s a bit difficult with a lifestyle like mine but I am having to move with the…

Yesterday was the most awful weather here in the Shire, non stop rain and high winds, each time I went out to do the feeding I got drenched! On a day like that there is nothing more to do than light the woodburning stove, put the dinner in to slow roast and watch as many…