Tag: self sufficient
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Happy New Year, here is to a much better 2021 😀
Now I know I said I wasn’t going to blog over Christmas but some days just warrant an jot down. Today Dec 21st is a day like that, first John gets the animals done and goes off Christmas shopping, I do a few little house bits and then set up to wrap presents. First I…
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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…
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Fog, rain, sunshine, Mincepies &
Monday 7th December 2020: I have had a busy but highly productive day today and smashed 10,000 steps by 3pm. First there was the morning routine and jobs, today that included cleaning out the ducks, cleaning out the guinea pigs and moving the one on his own into the cage inside the pen that the…
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Foggy weather, human lockdown lifted, avian lockdown imposed 😖
Monday 30th November 2020: Monday again 🙄 a good Monday this week as we come out of the second lockdown so by Thursday things will feel fairly normal again hopefully. The infection rate has decreased by a third over the last couple of weeks which is good news but we are still not out of…
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Foggy, frosty & freezing brrr, Winter has arrived.
Monday 23rd November 2020: An atmospheric foggy morning this morning and it had been cold enough overnight for a frost. It’s almost noon and I haven’t stopped this morning until now. With the mornings getting ever darker I said to John that I would take over the morning feeding etc so that he can get…
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Grey days, dark nights, roll on mid winter 🙄
Thursday 19th November 2020: It’s a dry day with some sunshine although it’s colder and breezier than it has been lately. I have been waiting everyday for the weather to be nice enough to go outside but the rain was persistent and it’s not much fun in the wet. Today however I got up, got…
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Seeds, avian flu & an amazing sunrise.
Monday 9th November 2020: First thing this morning I have a repeat blood test as my last lot are showing low leucocytes again 😏 That means increased risk of infection so I need to be a bit careful. Last night I was reading that the house sparrow is on the red list for conservation which…
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The first frost, the last tea at Nanas (for a while) and turf war in the skies above.
Monday 2nd November 2020: Morning 😀 It was very windy overnight and still some pretty hefty gusts first thing this morning, we are supposed to get drier weather from Wednesday I will look forward to that. This is the week that we potentially go into another semi lockdown, I say potentially as it still has…
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Darker nights, Halloween and another lockdown.
Monday 26th October 2020: Having been somewhat absent from the outside last week I thought I had better do a few bits today. But first there was a cake to cook and jelly to make for the VIPs, chocolate cake today as requested by Josh and strawberry jelly this week. I got some dusting and…
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The mighty Oak, lots of paperwork 😏 & procrastination 🙄
Monday 19th October 2020: Good morning Monday 😀 here you are again, I don’t get the Monday morning blues mostly because I’m not obligated to be at a place of work 😝 So it’s a lovely morning, dry, not too cold, the sun is trying to shine but there is quite a bit of cloud…
