Tag: rain
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Ash die back, plenty more rain (seriously that will do now thank you) & basically it’s all about the weather and how crap it is 🤣
I Monday 17th May 2021: New week, new mindset 😁 Starting today we can now eat inside cafes, restaurants and pubs etc, whoop, moreover we can go inside other people’s houses and we can hug. Yeah I will skip the last part if you don’t mind, apart from direct family I wasn’t a hugger before…
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More rain 🌧 some planting up & my 2nd vaccine 😁
Monday 10th May 2021: OMFG! I have just typed up today’s page and accidentally discarded it 🤬 so I have to start again, I was initially distraught then I realised it was only Monday so I hadn’t lost that much 😂 The weather looked promising this morning, not cold, not too warm, not too sunny…
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A cold week, plenty of rhubarb & delicious mushrooms.
Monday 3rd May 2021: Bank Holiday Monday, in a normal year there would be plenty of days out to choose from but this year 🤔 add to that the weather forecast and well let’s just say we might as well stay at home 😂 Which is of course exactly what we are doing, I have…
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Jam, asparagus soup & May Day 🥰
Monday 26th April 2021: Still on the chilly side for April and no sign of it warming for the next two weeks. Best to dress for the cold and take layers off I think 🤔 This week John has a full week of ‘proper’ work so I will mainly be here on my own bimbling…
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Nice weather to begin with, then wind and rain and then just continuous wind 😝
Monday 8th March 2021: Good morning and good morning to all those children who are finally returning to school today and big high five to the parents who have been home schooling ✋ Hopefully today marks the beginning of the road to some kind of normality later this year 🙏 When I think about the…
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Valentine’s 💘 goose eggs & seed sowing begins.
Monday 15th February 2021: I am feeling more optimistic this morning about the weeks ahead, I think the weather really does have an effect on my moods and outlook. Today it is much milder, yes we have had rain and yes that is a pain going straight from a frozen solid week to a soggy…
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Freezing 🥶 Thawing & Valentines 💘
Monday 8th February 2021: Morning 😀 it’s 9.30am and I have sat down to have a coffee. I have already been out and rolled a wheel of hay to the paddock with John and fed the horses, lit the Rayburn, got a loaf of bread proving, got lunch and this evenings dinner organised, put some…
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Spring begins its awakening, and then plummets back into winter 😝
Monday February 1st 2021: Imbolc, the midway point between the Winter solstice and the Spring equinox, the beginning of the return of Spring, St Brigid’s day (who also happens to be the patron saint of chicken farmers amongst others) there are plenty of customs and traditions surrounding the day but for me it is definitely…
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A LOT of rain 🙄, a bit of creativity & Spring is coming (I promise 🥰)
Monday 25th January 2021: Morning campers 😀 it is a fine sunny morning this morning though the snow is still on the ground and it’s freezing the Sun is glorious ☀️ Amazing how it lifts your spirits even in the depths of Winter. As you can guess, this morning was all about breaking water buckets…
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Christmas is coming, covid is still here & thieving gits!
Monday 14th December 2020: Good morning everyone, did you spot my error on last weeks blog? I forgot to finish the title off and just left it hanging so apologies for that 😝 Not a bad start to the day early on, John was off today (kind of) and we had one particular job to…
