Tag: goose eggs
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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…
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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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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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New chicks, a bit of rain, plenty of gardening.
Thursday 4th April: 🙄 What can I say, this is the first time in just over a week I have been able to function properly, I gradually went from bad to worse, my joints swelled, my muscles were all inflamed, I had chronic pain and I felt really lousy, freezing cold and very sleepy. Luckily…
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A Wedding, a death & a bloody great pot hole 😜
Monday 4th March: Cold and blustery this morning but at least it’s not raining. I have not done much but the usual today what with house guests and all. Finally the family secret is out of the bag, yesterday we surprised Dad and today Adi, my other brother was surprised with the arrival of Joe,…
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A moment to cherish, plenty of jobs & visitors.
Monday 25th Feb: Frosty, sunny, glorious 😀 A new week 😀 John has returned to work today I don’t think he is in the best of moods as I made him do some work at the weekend as well 😬 but as I explained we have to get some stuff done while the weather is…
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The Artic, home to sunshine and fresh oranges.
We are back from our Artic adventure, it was epic, we had force 11 seas 🤢, hurricane Eric blew in blizzards and cloud cover which meant we didn’t see one single scrap of the Northern Lights ☹️ but we had an amazing time. The scenery was fantastic, the temperatures were not too low except for…
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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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Lots of sunshine ☀️ Jobs completed (at last) and thunderstorms ⛈
Monday 16th April: Had a very busy day today! Mostly in the garden, I made a little strawberry bed inside the fruit cage and planted strawberry’s that had set themselves in various places, then I spent the rest of the time tidying up, pots that had got blown around, plants that didn’t make it through…
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Cabbage seeds, cookery books and bird boxes.
Tuesday 20th Feb: Back to the routine today after a short break and guess what, it’s windy! It woke me up around 4.30am something was banging around luckily I eventually fell back to sleep, woke up again at 7 and it’s still windy. The greatest thing about the wind is that it’s drying up the…
