Tag: seed sowing
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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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Garlic harvest, wildlife mornings & a tad of the wet stuff.
Monday 18th May 2020: A new week 😀 still in a global pandemic and life has taken a slower pace for a majority of us. I wonder how many will continue to take it much slower once the threat is over. John has decided that when he goes back to work he is going to…
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Monday 11th May 2020, still in the midst of a global pandemic and this feels like the 33rd week we have been at home lol though in reality I think we are going into week 8? As always there are plenty of jobs to keep us busy here and for that I am very grateful.…
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Keeping busy, drying herbs & VEDay celebrations.
Monday 4th May 2020: We are still in the depths of the global pandemic, not that anyone needs reminding but it’s good to look back in a few years time and see what was going on lol. We escaped for a few hours today, a few hours we will never get back, queuing 😜 We…
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Rain, Dads funeral & getting on with it.
Monday again! 27th April 2020, not a year we will forget in a hurry, a worldwide pandemic that has had massive impact on the way we live. There have been negatives but I’m hoping there will be some real positives that will change the way we do things both for the benefit of the environment…
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Muddling through, plenty of sunshine, still in lockdown.
Monday 20th April: I am not sure how this week will pan out regarding the Smallholding blog, to be honest I think I will just be going through the motions 🙄 John went to pick up another load of wood from some trees a friend cut down, I have spent the morning between, watering the…
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The normal routine, a few blips and some sad times x
Sorry this is late you will find out why when you get to Saturday 😢 Monday 13th April 2020: I’m losing track of how long we have been in lockdown now 🙄 I think we are going into week 4. The temperature has dropped by 10 degrees today, hugely noticeable. I am definitely struggling today,…
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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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What day is it? 😂 a missing guinea pig, did the cat do it? 🤔
I Monday 30 March 2020: And just like that it’s Monday again 😜 albeit different Mondays to what we once had as obviously John is at home. This morning he went out first thing to get the van an MOT, the government announced, the day after he had booked it in, that MOTs would be…
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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…
