Tag: apples
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Winter preparations & trips out.
Monday October 30th 2023: The sun is shining this morning so that a good cue to get some washing on the go. I expect everyone else is all of a fuddle over what time of day it is exactly 😂 I had plenty of things I need to get done today as I seem to…
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An abundance of produce, grandchildren & flowers.
Monday 28th August 2023: Bank Holiday Monday, we spent the morning working, John was cutting down stingers and mowing, always plenty of mowing to do. I did plenty of propagating either diving up plants or digging up plants that have got too big for where they are and dividing and potting them up. If done…
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Plums, apples and sunflowers 🌻
Monday 14th August 2023: Another not so great summers day, I know it’s late summer but seriously it was more like autumn today. I am not sure we are going to get much of summer now, it would matter so much but Winter is loooooong and depressing enough on it’s own 😜 I decided to…
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Seed sowing, apple picking and the weather is swinging back and forth.
Monday 26th September 2022: Arrghh where is the year disappearing too 🙄 I will try to be a bit more efficient with writing the blog this week 😂 Today the weather is squally, windy, rainy at times with the sun occasionally appearing and definitely a tad cooler. I did think though that today would be…
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Cooler mornings and evenings, slow cooking & bulb planting.
Monday 12th September 2022: After last week who knows what this week will bring but one thing it’s already brought is rain! Seriously 😐 months of drought and high temperatures and then wham rain, rain, rain, when is a girl supposed to get the washing dry 🤷♀️ We had a dry day yesterday, that’s the…
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RIP HRH Queen Elizabeth II 😔
Tuesday 6th September 2022: I didn’t blog yesterday as I was still at Sam and Luke’s looking after the children until around 6pm, I called in to see Charlie, Macca and Oscar on the way home. We eventually got back in time to get some dinner on, John did the birds and the egg collecting…
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It’s hot and dry, that is all I have to say 🥵
Tuesday 9th August 2022: No idea what I did on Monday apart from cut a whole load of flowers for an order that was cancelled 😏 and went to my brothers in the evening for his birthday. The rest is a blur 😝 Tuesday: After making up a couple of jam jars, sorting flowers for…
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Lots of tidying up, some flower arranging & a bit of foraging.
Monday 4th October 2021: A nice day for the best part, a little rain in the afternoon but only quick showers really. I had decided how my day was going to go and got on with things only to get a phone call from John at around 9am. The job he was starting this week…
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Autumn is here, getting my stores in & preparing for Winter.
Monday 27th September 2021: Autumn made itself known this morning, we have had sunshine and warm temperatures for a few weeks now but this morning we woke to windy, rainy weather and the temps are a tad lower than they have been. The sun did break through though and most of the day was nice…
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A busy week, harvesting and processing & the reason for the busy week 🥰
Thursday: Yes it’s Thursday before I even realised I hadn’t written a single thing for the blog 🤣 Thats because I ha e been so busy I haven’t even had time to think about it at all. Most of the early week was wall to wall blue sky and it was pretty hot so that…
