Tag: rhubarb
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Afternoon tea, potatoes planted & Jobs list ticked off.
Monday 2nd March 2020: The beginning of Johns week off, the weather is on our side for today at least. We both did the morning rounds then straight on with the job of the day, the fence at the end of the veg garden. This is a job that had to be completed in one…
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Back to normal, stuff to sort & Winter flowering shrubs.
Monday 6th January 2020: I have enjoyed having John at home for three weeks but this morning I am also happy to have the place back to myself as he goes off to work early. I think it’s the sense of back to normality and there is definitely a lot to be said for doing…
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Garden produce, borage & hot weather.
Monday 24th June: It’s very humid today, no Sun so that’s great for me but, sweating and glasses steaming up hinders work 😂 On top of that my cold has now turned to sinusitis, bloody brilliant 🙄 I can’t breathe through my nose very well and that even makes eating difficult lol. Having said that…
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Last of the planting, some picking & Johns birthday
Monday 3rd June: Well rested after a weekend away it’s time to crack on 😜 After sorting all the birds out in the morning it was straight into the garden to see what’s been happening and what needs to be done. I planted the cucumbers, loofahs, some tomato plants and the dahlias, all a bit…
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A busy, tiring but highly productive week 😀
Monday 18th March: Not a bad morning, not too cold, not raining and not windy 😀 so after I did the animal feeding etc I got stuck into a bit of gardening. I had two beds in mind to get done, the first is the very far bed, this has fruit in it, Cherry/pear/apple trees,…
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Seed sowing, incubating & poultry processing
Monday March 11th: It’s still windy! Generally we have a day or a night of windy weather then that’s it for a while, it seems like it’s been windy for weeks 😜 and it’s not finished yet as the weeks forecast still has high winds making an appearance. Our weather patterns are definitely becoming more…
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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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Bad start, got better, life is good.
Monday 30th April: A woeful morning right from the off, early morning call to John, his Mum is being admitted to hospital after an incident, I do the morning rounds, and we have had a fox massacre in the back paddock. It has gone in through the window on the roof and massacred the hens…
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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…
