Tag: Friesland Farm
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Ducklings, a Blood Moon Lunar eclipse & finally some rain ☔️
Sunday night: I’m officially exhausted tonight, it’s close looks like it should rain but I don’t think it’s going to. There were a few other things I should have written on the blog but the technology was playing up and I was too tired to bother! Firstly that I picked around 2kg of blackcurrants as…
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Endless watering, plenty of picking and Cornish mackerel for dinner.
Monday 16th July: The dry, hot spell looks set to continue with no sign of rain 😏 although as I have said there is moisture in the air overnight so there is some respite for the plants. We were discussing the last summer we had like this which was 2006, very hot and dry though…
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Cherry pie, apricot jam and still no rain 😏
Monday 9th July: Up at 4.30am! Needed the toilet, starving, that’s the steroids, there was daylight so I figured I might as well get up an on. It was so wonderfully fresh and cool at that time of the day, even better than late at night, a welcome break from the daytime heat. Diesel also…
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Getting there, ramblings of an overactive mind and a thermometer malfunction.
Friday 6th July: 9.30am and I’m feeling better today, I only had to have a half hour sleep after getting up at 5 to water the garden lol, yesterday it was a two an half hour sleep so that’s progress, the pains have pretty much gone and the neuralgia in my fingers is back to…
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Apologies for the lack of a blog!
Thursday 28th June: Yep this is the first time this week I am able to write something, the Lupus had taken hold, looking back I can see I was on a slippery slope I just didn’t recognise the signs as they are different to the last, and only, flare I had. I knew I was…
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Forest gardening, Midsummer and a Harris Hawk
Monday 18th May: The weather looks set to be fair this week, no rain in sight which means lots of watering to be done! I’m pretty good this morning once I’ve taken something to help out so John did half the birds and I did the other half, we have 10 hatchlings in the final…
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Elderflower, more hatchlings and greenhouse planning.
Monday 11th June: An idyllic day, those are my thoughts of today, of course I haven’t done much again his morning so I can take the time to just enjoy what’s around me, sunshine, birdsong, gentle breeze, totally idyllic, I need to take more time to appreciate it in future I think. It is in…
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Edibles at last, another birthday & a successful adoption.
Monday 4th June: Rain first thing, I watered last night so that seems a waste of time but you never know how things are going to go! John is back as his proper job this week so I am on my own doing the feeding etc this morning. When I finished that it was onto…
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The humble pea, the mother of all storms and a Cotswold rally.
Tuesday 29th May: We arrived back after a couple of days away in Wales, it was scorching down there and pretty muggy much like the rest of the country and overcast here when we arrived back but still muggy. Everything is still alive thank goodness, the farm has been well taken care of and even…
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Goslings, wildlife pond & more fox attacks.
Monday 21st May: John is off again this week so he did most of the morning round, I followed behind doing the things he forgets to do! Then he spent the morning cutting wood and cleaned the floor of the POL pen in between. I did a bit of early morning hoeing and collected weeds…
