Tag: cold weather
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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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Flowers, singing for Beltane and and bit of rain 😁
Monday: 25th April 2022: A new week, tad chillier this week in the morning but it did warm up as the day went on. John had to phone the doctor this morning about his arm, who sent him to the MIU (who didn’t want to see him at the weekend) for an x-ray, when he…
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🦠 it got me 🙄 a bit of baking & everything else.
Monday 28th March 2022: I spent most of the day doing bits and pieces, pottering, call it what you will. I got a few plants in the ground in various places, watered some of the pots and watered the greenhouse but apart from that nothing major. There was plenty I could have got done but…
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Note to self, plants arriving & worrying world events 🙄
Tuesday 8th February 2022: Yes Tuesday 🤬 I have completely lost the draft I started yesterday 🤷♀️ I am having a mare with technology at the minute, slow to load everything although my provider says all lines in are working correctly. I began to think I had been hacked so changed all my passwords including…
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Goodbye January, a baby announcement & a Sloe Gin competition 😁
Monday 31st January 2022: The last day of January and while I would never be one to wish my life away I am certainly glad we are another month nearer to some warmer weather 😁 John has gone to work this morning which meant I was on the rota to do the rounds, it is…
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Busy week, painting projects & preparing to flower farm 😁
Monday 24th January 2022: Milder than it has been, dry and the ground is not frozen yay that means I can get outside and get something done. First though I had to get the animals all sorted as John has gone to work for a couple of hours but will be back mid morning. As…
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A wassail, a new logo & some seedlings.
Monday 17th January 2022: Old twelvey, 12th night (pre Georgian calender) Wassail day 😁 Another cold and frosty morning and I was on the morning duties as John went off to work. After doing that (a little late as I spent an hour on FaceTime with my brother in Aus) I got on with making…
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Cold frosty weather, a game changing bit of kit & a birthday lunch.
Monday: Grey, dull but mild enough for Winter. John still has his tooth problem and it has got worse not better but he went to the dentist this afternoon and they have given him stronger antibiotics. Because he is not sleeping well he was late up this morning and late going to work, he had…
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Cold, wet & lots of research 😁
Monday 3rd January 2022 (Bank holiday): We have done quite a bit of work over the holidays and there is always plenty more to do but I decided not to do outside work today, I just feel I needed to get some things done inside. John however has been working outside sorting out the duck…
