Tag: Smallholding
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Wreaths, a new path and delphiniums in November!
Monday 7th November 2022: A new week, lockdown begins for the poultry 🫤 they have no idea why they are not allowed out but so far so good on day one 🙄 Apart from the rain at the exact point I had just got my outdoor attire on to go out and feed and collect…
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Halloween, a lost (and found phone) and poultry lockdown 😔
Monday 31st October 2022: I feel better this week and thank you for all the kind words 😁 I think I must have had a virus that but not really presenting itself as anything major in particular just lots of little things that were pulling me down. Weirdest of all was the sensitive scalp 🤷♀️…
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Pumpkin flowers, wreaths & the clock change 🫤
Monday 24th October 2022: Ok I have been a little tardy with the blog posts apologies for that. I am feeling very ‘meh’ about everything at certain points in the day, generally late afternoon and evening when I would usually do the write up. I am more tired than usual, it’s starts off ok in…
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It’s definitely Autumn 🍂
Monday 3rd October 2022: What a beautiful morning, it started off with a pink sky which bathed everything in a glow at dawn this morning and then the sun came out in glorious autumn fashion. I decided a creative morning was in order and so I gathered up plenty of foliage to make an autumn…
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Seed sowing, apple picking and the weather is swinging back and forth.
Monday 26th September 2022: Arrghh where is the year disappearing too 🙄 I will try to be a bit more efficient with writing the blog this week 😂 Today the weather is squally, windy, rainy at times with the sun occasionally appearing and definitely a tad cooler. I did think though that today would be…
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Tidying, bulb planting and Malvern
Monday 19th September 2022: The day of The Queens funeral. I have seen a few momentous occasions over the years but never have I been so proud to be British as I am today. A day of mixed emotions, sadness that we have lost one of the greatest women of our time, thankful that we…
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Cooler mornings and evenings, slow cooking & bulb planting.
Monday 12th September 2022: After last week who knows what this week will bring but one thing it’s already brought is rain! Seriously 😐 months of drought and high temperatures and then wham rain, rain, rain, when is a girl supposed to get the washing dry 🤷♀️ We had a dry day yesterday, that’s the…
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RIP HRH Queen Elizabeth II 😔
Tuesday 6th September 2022: I didn’t blog yesterday as I was still at Sam and Luke’s looking after the children until around 6pm, I called in to see Charlie, Macca and Oscar on the way home. We eventually got back in time to get some dinner on, John did the birds and the egg collecting…
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Blackberry picking, IBC tanks and The Wedding Day 🥰
Monday 29th August 2022: Bank Holiday Monday 😁 It has been a chilled and relaxed BH nothing too taxing today. After getting the morning jobs sorted I did the final touches to the wedding flowers, boxing them all up depending on where they are going to over the next couple of days. Bridal and bridesmaid…
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Tomatoes, flowers & a new Grandson 🥰
Monday 22nd August 2022: A fairly nondescript kind of day as far as the weather went, not too hot, not too cold, not too sunny, not too rainy. We did have a tiny smattering of rain but nothing worth writing home about, could have done with a bit more to be honest. Once the morning…
