Tag: chickens
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Back to normal, stuff to sort & Winter flowering shrubs.
Monday 6th January 2020: I have enjoyed having John at home for three weeks but this morning I am also happy to have the place back to myself as he goes off to work early. I think it’s the sense of back to normality and there is definitely a lot to be said for doing…
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A happy and healthy 2020 🥳 to you all.
New Year’s Day: We have had a lovely Christmas and are looking forward to the New Year. In between the two we have had Johns Mums funeral, an occasion which is always bitter sweet I think, on the one hand you are saying goodbye to someone you will never see again and on the other…
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Christmas cake & stir up Sunday
Monday 18th November: The weekend passes so quickly doesn’t it 🙄 Back round to Monday and it’s a sunny morning, not too cold and not raining so that’s a pretty good winters day 😀 I did the morning rounds, we still haven’t moved the geese but I have opened up the paddock gate for them…
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Rain, snow & sunshine all in the same week🙄
Monday 11th Nov: On the 11th hour of the 11th Day in the 11th month We will remember them. It’s another cold November day, it rained heavily overnight again but this morning the ‘lake’ has shrunk, it disappears quickly it’s just a case of too much volume too fast and it collects at a low…
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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…
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A lot of rain, a lot of wood-chip & a few celebrations 😀
Monday 14th October: Not raining this morning and it hasn’t rained overnight 😀 although by 12pm Mother nature just couldn’t help herself 😜 However I did manage to get some good jobs done before the rain started, John had cleaned both the big hen huts over the weekend and so it was my turn to…
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Lots of rain, passata & baked beans 😜
Monday 30th Sept: Oh don’t you just love Monday mornings 🙄 I wanted to get on but the gremlins are at it again, half way into feeding the electric trips again 😏 Our electric consists of 4 fuse boxes each one reaching further out into the farm, so the main box is in the kitchen,…
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Jammin, not the musical kind 😜
I decided to change the theme layout of the blog this week to keep,you on your toes 😋 Monday 2nd September: Oooo we are proper rolling into Autumn now. Dad and Sue enjoyed their week and did some helpful jobs around the place, mowing, picking, weeding etc John was off as well and got a…
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The wrong shoes, plum moth and hard working Mums 😀
Monday 19th August: whoo hoo Monday again 😬 Not a bad day weatherwise so far, cool enough, a touch of sun, no rain and no wind 😀 After doing the morning stuff I got on in the garden, not veg gardening, today I am giving that a rest but flowers instead. I have a few…
