Tag: Smallholding
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A timely encounter, festive preparations and the Solstice 😀
Monday 16th December 2019: I feel that this blog deserves a full date as it will be the last one for this year. I was going to do a round of pictures and I will if I can but the upload times are probably going to be very long so I may abandon it 😜…
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Windy, a passing & a family feast.
Monday 9th December: Oooo we are getting closer, not to Christmas but to the Solstice 😀 I am writing this at 7.30am on Monday morning ( that’s approx 15 hrs of darkness 🙄) and it’s still dark outside 😏 I have bumbled round and done as many indoor jobs as I can and am waiting…
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Cat & mouse, cockerels & the Sky.
Sunday evening Dec 1st: Sometimes on a Sunday evening after the blog has been published there are things I like to tell you about, tonight is one of those evenings. A real live game of cat and mouse was played out in the undercover back area. I think we don’t have many mice as I…
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Mud, wreaths & the Winter season.
Monday 25th Nov: Firstly I must apologise for not proofreading last weeks post before publishing it, I was under a time constraint but that was enforgivable 😜 Today I am having Josh and Flo while Shelley does a course so I was up early in order to get everything done before they arrived first thing.…
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Christmas cake & stir up Sunday
Monday 18th November: The weekend passes so quickly doesn’t it 🙄 Back round to Monday and it’s a sunny morning, not too cold and not raining so that’s a pretty good winters day 😀 I did the morning rounds, we still haven’t moved the geese but I have opened up the paddock gate for them…
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Rain, snow & sunshine all in the same week🙄
Monday 11th Nov: On the 11th hour of the 11th Day in the 11th month We will remember them. It’s another cold November day, it rained heavily overnight again but this morning the ‘lake’ has shrunk, it disappears quickly it’s just a case of too much volume too fast and it collects at a low…
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Winter preparations, Chutney & Sustainable Flower arranging 💐
Monday 4th Nov: It rained in the night, it woke me up so must have been heavy at some point. The ground underfoot quickly goes from dry to a bit of a mud bath and, except for when it’s freezing, I don’t expect that to clear now until next Spring 😏 I got on with…
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Sausages but no stars, pumpkin bread & Autumn gardening jobs.
Monday 28th October: It’s 1.30pm and I have had a cracking few hours outside, I went out at 7.30 to do the feeding etc and I’ve only just come back in apart from two times to make coffee 😀 First off I started with cleaning out the quail and the geese and then onto the…
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Minor mishaps, more rain & a jobs list 😀
Monday 21st October: We are rattling through the year now, always seems slower at this end than the warm end 😜 Weekdays mean I’m on the duty rota for the feeding and letting out of the birds. I do it slightly differently to John and prefer to keep the birds shut in while they eat…
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A lot of rain, a lot of wood-chip & a few celebrations 😀
Monday 14th October: Not raining this morning and it hasn’t rained overnight 😀 although by 12pm Mother nature just couldn’t help herself 😜 However I did manage to get some good jobs done before the rain started, John had cleaned both the big hen huts over the weekend and so it was my turn to…
