Tag: cold weather
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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…
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Mud, wreaths & the Winter season.
Monday 25th Nov: Firstly I must apologise for not proofreading last weeks post before publishing it, I was under a time constraint but that was enforgivable 😜 Today I am having Josh and Flo while Shelley does a course so I was up early in order to get everything done before they arrived first thing.…
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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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Asparagus frittata, grapes forming & the ducks are a no show ☹️
Monday 29th April: I’m feeling full of positive energy today 😀 The Sun is shinning and before doing anything else other than breakfast and showering, I have been out and cut the asparagus and rhubarb to put out for sale. Some of the asparagus I have kept back and made an asparagus frittata/crust less quiche,…
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Seeds, Snow and Stars
Monday 28th Jan: Trees, or rather planting trees, is very much in focus at the moment as far as the government and environmental departments are concerned. Do you remember a few months ago I put some cherry pips into the fridge to undergo stratification, a period of cold that will simulate Winter, well it’s time…
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Mixed weather, a unexplained death and a bit of baking.
Monday 21st Jan: I was up early to get a look at the Moon, sadly it was too cloudy and I couldn’t see anything at all ☹️ Today is labelled as Blue Monday, it’s a Monday morning in January they are all blue 🥴 The upside of the last nights cloud cover is that it…
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Creations, Christmas decorating and Cruella de Vil
Sunday evening: We moved 74 hens in the dark lol, each crate takes 12 hens and we have two crates, the last crate we squeezed the extra in as it’s not very easy pushing the loaded wheelbarrow through the wet mud 😜 They are now in the back pen which is fox proof, just as…
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A week to reflect and remember
Monday November 5th: Remember remember the 5th of November gunpowder treason and plot We see no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot. And why not, it’s a very good excuse for a big bonfire and some amazing pyrotechnics, soup and hot dogs 😀 Years ago we used to do ‘penny for the Guy’…
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Winters here ❄️ Samhain & a disappointing sweet potato haul.
Monday 29th October: Winter arrived with a bang this weekend and this morning it’s cold with a widespread hard frost brrrr. We were up early of course because the body clock doesn’t fall back along with the digital ones 😜 We have the usual ‘well it’s really an hour later’ conversations during the first few…
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Organising, fruit bread fail & hibernation time.
Sunday evening: We had a young lad come up and get some muck for his Mums roses on his old tractor which promptly broke down ☹️ but he sorted it out and got it going again, I think it’s fabulous to see a youngster working with old machinery otherwise it will be a skill that…
