Tag: flower farming
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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…
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It’s been a while, sorry 😣
September 2024: It has been ages since I last blogged and I am really sorry, I started so many drafts only to get caught up in life in general that they never made to publishing 🤪 It has been a busy few months, on the flower side of things business has been brisk, different to…
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Sunshine, flowers & a stolen flower shed!
Monday 24th June 2024: It seems like the months are whizzing past lol. Sorry about the lack of blogging I have either been too busy or too tired to keep up with it. Summer has finally arrived after all the rubbish weather and this week we have wall to wall sunshine which means of course…
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Flowers, Grandchildren & Rhubarb.
Monday 8th April 2024: It is still the Easter holidays for the children and Sam came over with the kids today. The farrier was due out and so she came over to get the horses in. She was worried about Biscuits feet as they didn’t look right and she has had laminitis in a previous…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Some lovely sunny days, some very rainy nights and flooding again.
Monday 12th February 2023: Wowzers I logged on to see a message from WordPress wishing me happy anniversary, 13 years I have been blogging, that’s some dedication isn’t it 😂 The sun has shone beautifully today and my first job was to walk up to the church and meet the lady in charge as I…
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I found a frog 🐸 some flower work and plenty of outside jobs done.
Monday 29th January 2024: First month of the year almost done we just need to get through February 😂 I started the day with a cook up, I am getting into a good routine with this and I have great freezer choices to show for it. We had roast chicken yesterday and so I wanted…
