Tag: chickens
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Keeping busy, drying herbs & VEDay celebrations.
Monday 4th May 2020: We are still in the depths of the global pandemic, not that anyone needs reminding but it’s good to look back in a few years time and see what was going on lol. We escaped for a few hours today, a few hours we will never get back, queuing 😜 We…
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Rain, Dads funeral & getting on with it.
Monday again! 27th April 2020, not a year we will forget in a hurry, a worldwide pandemic that has had massive impact on the way we live. There have been negatives but I’m hoping there will be some real positives that will change the way we do things both for the benefit of the environment…
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Muddling through, plenty of sunshine, still in lockdown.
Monday 20th April: I am not sure how this week will pan out regarding the Smallholding blog, to be honest I think I will just be going through the motions 🙄 John went to pick up another load of wood from some trees a friend cut down, I have spent the morning between, watering the…
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The normal routine, a few blips and some sad times x
Sorry this is late you will find out why when you get to Saturday 😢 Monday 13th April 2020: I’m losing track of how long we have been in lockdown now 🙄 I think we are going into week 4. The temperature has dropped by 10 degrees today, hugely noticeable. I am definitely struggling today,…
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Muddling on, madness & Mothers Day
Monday March 16th 2020: A cold start to the day but it yielded a glorious day which I took full advantage of. I started off indoors hoovering and polishing so that I could dedicate more time to outside 😋 Once the animal rounds were done I took the dahlia tubers from the back toilet and…
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Afternoon tea, potatoes planted & Jobs list ticked off.
Monday 2nd March 2020: The beginning of Johns week off, the weather is on our side for today at least. We both did the morning rounds then straight on with the job of the day, the fence at the end of the veg garden. This is a job that had to be completed in one…
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Crap weather, Dotty Iron Man rabbit & decisions, decisions.
A bit late, sorry 😜 normal service will return when I feel better 🤒 Monday 17th Feb 2020: We are back round to Monday again how did that happen 😜 The remnants of storm Dennis have still been felt, lashings of rain, some gusts of winds, to be honest I expected the lake to have…
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9 years of blogging, ‘dragons’ & storm Ciara
Monday 3rd February: Oh my goodness WordPress has informed me that I first registered and posted 9 years ago, 31st Jan 2011 😲 It seems I have been banging on with my blurb for quite a long time 😜 My first blogs were short and sweet lol, they have got a lot longer over the…
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Knowledge, pasties and twiglet sitting.
Monday 20th January 2020: Morning 😀 another hard frost last night, lovely jubbly. John has gone off to ‘real’ work this morning leaving me to do the morning rounds which I don’t mind in the least when the ground is firm underfoot 😜 I listened to another podcast this morning, gardening related naturally, this one…
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Stormy weather, goose eggs & pod casts.
Monday 13th January: I had a cracking evening last night, by that I mean cracking nuts not having a good time 😜 I thought I’d better get started on the nuts if I do half an hour here and there I will soon have plenty of nuts to snack on or use in cooking. Turns…
