Tag: cold weather
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Freezing 🥶 Thawing & Valentines 💘
Monday 8th February 2021: Morning 😀 it’s 9.30am and I have sat down to have a coffee. I have already been out and rolled a wheel of hay to the paddock with John and fed the horses, lit the Rayburn, got a loaf of bread proving, got lunch and this evenings dinner organised, put some…
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Spring begins its awakening, and then plummets back into winter 😝
Monday February 1st 2021: Imbolc, the midway point between the Winter solstice and the Spring equinox, the beginning of the return of Spring, St Brigid’s day (who also happens to be the patron saint of chicken farmers amongst others) there are plenty of customs and traditions surrounding the day but for me it is definitely…
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A LOT of rain 🙄, a bit of creativity & Spring is coming (I promise 🥰)
Monday 25th January 2021: Morning campers 😀 it is a fine sunny morning this morning though the snow is still on the ground and it’s freezing the Sun is glorious ☀️ Amazing how it lifts your spirits even in the depths of Winter. As you can guess, this morning was all about breaking water buckets…
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Winter jobs, winter food, winter weather.
Monday 18th January 2021: I like typing 2021 it feels very futuristic 😂 Monday morning again and the weather is ok, you can tell when the weather is just ok as the English don’t mention it, we tend to talk about extremes, isn’t it hot or it’s cold enough to freeze the balls off a…
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Another lockdown, freezing, snowy weather and jobs indoors.
Monday 4th January 2021: Having decided we will go to the shop as minimally as possible I am busy ploughing through the freezers, luckily they are full of all kinds of things especially veg and fruit, what we don’t buy I can make, bread, biscuits, cakes, pies, yep we are pretty sorted and to be…
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Happy New Year, here is to a much better 2021 😀
Now I know I said I wasn’t going to blog over Christmas but some days just warrant an jot down. Today Dec 21st is a day like that, first John gets the animals done and goes off Christmas shopping, I do a few little house bits and then set up to wrap presents. First I…
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Foggy, frosty & freezing brrr, Winter has arrived.
Monday 23rd November 2020: An atmospheric foggy morning this morning and it had been cold enough overnight for a frost. It’s almost noon and I haven’t stopped this morning until now. With the mornings getting ever darker I said to John that I would take over the morning feeding etc so that he can get…
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Grey days, dark nights, roll on mid winter 🙄
Thursday 19th November 2020: It’s a dry day with some sunshine although it’s colder and breezier than it has been lately. I have been waiting everyday for the weather to be nice enough to go outside but the rain was persistent and it’s not much fun in the wet. Today however I got up, got…
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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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Cold winds, fence repairs, my seed stash and storm Dennis 😏
Monday 10th Feb 2020: Oooooh it’s Monday again 😏 Some Monday’s I don’t mind, the ones where the weather is fair to good but it’s cold out and we still have the blustery remnants of the storm so I’m not really feeling this one lol. Still the winds blew over night, not quite so fierce…
