Tag: Autumn
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Seeds, avian flu & an amazing sunrise.
Monday 9th November 2020: First thing this morning I have a repeat blood test as my last lot are showing low leucocytes again 😏 That means increased risk of infection so I need to be a bit careful. Last night I was reading that the house sparrow is on the red list for conservation which…
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The mighty Oak, lots of paperwork 😏 & procrastination 🙄
Monday 19th October 2020: Good morning Monday 😀 here you are again, I don’t get the Monday morning blues mostly because I’m not obligated to be at a place of work 😝 So it’s a lovely morning, dry, not too cold, the sun is trying to shine but there is quite a bit of cloud…
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I’ll give the sourdough a miss 😝 butternut squash soup and indigo rose tomatoes 🍅
Monday 12th October 2020: The pandemic continues though I have to say it seems like it is happening elsewhere and I hope they don’t end up being famous last words 🙄 Seriously though we seem to be in a bit of a bubble here, the last outbreak before and during lockdown didn’t really seem to…
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Sourdough starter, Christmas cake & a couple of little failures 🙄
Monday 5th October 2020: After the dismal weather at the weekend, this morning the sun was shinning thank goodness, it’s soggy ground underfoot but at least it’s not raining for the moment. John did the morning rounds and my first job was to tidy the boot room and give it a bit of a clean,…
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Lavender oil, a lovely walk and plenty of walnuts.
Monday 28th September 2020: Would you look at that, we are back round to Monday again 🙄 Some tasks just happen without any planning of them and that’s what I have been doing this morning, an unplanned task, still one that needed doing just wasn’t on my radar. The cleaning out of the greenhouse, two…
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Harvesting, soup making and a trip out of the shire 😀
Monday 21st Sept 2020: You may remember, but probably not lol, that I bought a tea bush (sapling actually) Camellia Sinensis, well it’s been steadily growing and although it’s still not very big it does have quite a few leaves on it. Hopefully it will get big enough to make both green tea and black…
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Autumn pickings, a smack in the eye and a house of horrors (bit dramatic Dawn) 😝
Monday 7th September: We’ll here we are again back round at Monday, the children have either gone back or are going back this week. Seems like life is returning to normal except the daily reports of the virus numbers which in some countries are scarily huge 🙄 Cases are rising here, well they are going…
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Winter preparations, Chutney & Sustainable Flower arranging 💐
Monday 4th Nov: It rained in the night, it woke me up so must have been heavy at some point. The ground underfoot quickly goes from dry to a bit of a mud bath and, except for when it’s freezing, I don’t expect that to clear now until next Spring 😏 I got on with…
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Sausages but no stars, pumpkin bread & Autumn gardening jobs.
Monday 28th October: It’s 1.30pm and I have had a cracking few hours outside, I went out at 7.30 to do the feeding etc and I’ve only just come back in apart from two times to make coffee 😀 First off I started with cleaning out the quail and the geese and then onto the…
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Minor mishaps, more rain & a jobs list 😀
Monday 21st October: We are rattling through the year now, always seems slower at this end than the warm end 😜 Weekdays mean I’m on the duty rota for the feeding and letting out of the birds. I do it slightly differently to John and prefer to keep the birds shut in while they eat…
