Tag: cold weather
-
Preparing for the year ahead.
The weather has warmed a little but it’s still only around 3/4c most days, sometimes with a heavy fog, plenty of conspiracy theories online about this 🙄 We have managed to do a bit outside although there comes a point when fingers and toes are protesting a lot and that’s the time for me to…
-
Cold 🥶
That’s a bit of an understatement! It has been freezing this week, not by some standards around the world but definitely by ours. The thermometer in my greenhouse registered -5 on the coldest night which means it was at least -8 outside and that didn’t really let up during the day either. Needless to say…
-
Happy New Year 🥳
I totally lost my way when it came to the blog during the last year, I started writing a piece so many times that I have a plethora of drafts I now need to delete! What was wrong? Writers block, lack of confidence, nothing to say? A combination of those and more I suppose but…
-
I am in print 😊 a surprise party & Easter weekend.
Monday 25th March 2024: What a fabulous way to start the week, despite the early morning rain and grey skies, I had notification that I am in print in a magazine 😊 An article in ‘The Country Smallholder’ written by Jack Smellie, is all about the change of direction into flowers here on our Smallholding.…
-
A few trips out, a couple of cream teas & flowers, flowers, flowers.
Monday: I have a week of social events ahead of me which makes a change from being here all week and working. Today was the first event which was a regional meet up of Flowers from the Farm members from the South East. We met at Chippy Flower Farm which is about half an hour…
-
Rain, cold and finally some sunshine.
Monday 26th February 2024: Not frosty this morning but we have a cold wind instead 🙄 It’s lunchtime and I am just sitting down writing this up while I wait for my beef broth to defrost and heat up in the pan. Apart from the usual jobs one of the first things I did this…
-
Funeral flowers, fencing and frosty mornings.
Monday 19th February 2024: Decent enough weather today even if it is a little colder than the weekend. I was up early as I needed to deliver pedestal flowers to the church for a funeral today, John dropped me off and it was a brisk walk back. The traffic is still awful due to another…
-
Sorting appointments, seeds and poly tunnel.
Monday 8th January 2024: It is a tad colder now and at least the rain has stopped. This morning a flock of long tailed tits arrived which nearly always suggests a period of cold weather looming. I spent the first couple of hours trying to sort out appointments etc, trying being the operative word as…
-
Bookkeeping, wedding flowers and cosy nights.
Saturday: Ooops I forgot all week to write anything, I have had a busy week and so that is partly the reason not just bad memory 😂 I had flowers to do for a local residential home on Monday and then flowers for a small wedding on Tuesday and also I had Oscar so I…
-
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…
