Tag: rhubarb
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Ash before Oak 😏 a bit of creativity and it’s still cold outside 🥶
Monday 5th April 2021: Bank Holiday Monday and you couldn’t have got a more different day than yesterday 😂 Yesterday we were basking in good temps with wall to wall sunshine and today there is a cold North wind and it actually snowed at one point! To be fair I am writing this at 4.30pm…
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Hollibob booked 😀 an allergic reaction & and a tractor that won’t go 🙄
Monday 22nd March 2021: What a ridiculous morning and not even smallholding related 🙄 Holidays were being released from 8.30 this morning and so I was ready and good to go, an hour later and it’s obvious the website had crashed spectacularly, nevertheless I continued to refresh, refresh, refresh meanwhile I could see the prices…
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Micro veg masterclass, pricking out & the first crop harvests of the year.
Monday 15th March 2021: It’s Florence’s 3rd birthday today 😀 it is such a terrible shame that we have not been able to spend the time with all our grandchildren the way we would want to 😞 hopefully this coming summer we can make up for lost, precious time. March 15th is synonymous with ‘beware…
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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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Surprise! Mid week interlude 😀
I thought I would do a quick round up of the photos of produce I took over the 2020 growing season in date order so you can see how the year progressed. I love how vibrant the colours all are and can’t wait to start harvesting again this year. What I really should do is…
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Windy weather, picking and freezing & John returns home.
Monday 29th June 2020: It very windy today, I’m sure we don’t normally have winds as strong as this in June 🙄 yesterday was the same, strong enough to damage plants and whip bits off of trees 😏 I spent the night on my own here which is only the second time in 11 years…
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Wall to wall sunshine, endless watering means early mornings 😜
Monday 25th May 2020, Bank Holiday Monday: Time and tide wait for no Man as the saying goes, nature keeps doing its thing regardless of any pandemic (and getting on better because of it I suspect) and the natural flow of the year gently rolls on 😀 I, and others I know, have enjoyed the…
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Sowing and growing, reading & Easter 🐣
Monday 6th April 2020: And here we are again back round to Monday 😜 The weather is fair to good and so we were again working outside while we can. I spent the morning watering the greenhouse, moving things around, potting some bits on etc and then planting the first lot of mange-tout out in…
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Glorious days, another rabbit & work, work, work.
Monday 23rd March 2020: I have had the best day of the year so far lol, the sun has shone beautifully, it was warm and I have spent a day as happy as the pig in the proverbial 😀 After getting the morning rounds done we set about sorting out the tractor and chains to…
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A pandemic, turkey eggs & the first rhubarb
Monday 9th March 2020: Well it’s me on me tod this morning and it’s been an interesting start to the day. Firstly, the horse was out, how come it happens on my shift? This time of the year the grass is growing but not very fast and to be honest there is not a lot…
