Tag: Friesland Farm
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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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Gardening, cooking, clearing out, a little bit of everything this week.
Monday 14th January: Another non weather morning, slightly cold but dry, I keep waiting for some ‘weather’ to arrive and am keeping my eye on the long term reports. Not from the press as they are always predicting some major event that never happens but from the met office, there has been some ‘catastrophic’ event…
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Random thoughts, tree pruning, and fox v hens.
Monday 7th Jan 2019: A whole new year to start planning for 😀and we are already well under way with the plans for the new greenhouse which I am very excited about, I do sometimes think if I had my time all over again I would have liked to work in the walled garden of…
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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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Rain, mud and rabbits and rats 🤪
Monday December 3rd : Oh what a dismal morning, never mind, onwards and upwards. At some point last night the electric tripped on the sockets in the office, I can’t find the offending item as everything seems to be fine now? After the epic family feast yesterday I don’t feel too bad considering, I thought…
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Daffodils planted ✔️ trees planted ✔️ and a bucket of twigs.
Monday November 12th: A pleasant November morning, sunshine, not too cold, a little bit of mist hanging low over the fields. John did the animals and birds and I did a bit of early morning tidying up, we had coffee then he went off to work and I sat down to order some lightbulbs for…
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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…
