Tag: Smallholding
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Workshops, meetings and finally some rain 🌧
Monday 9th May 2022: Woah what a full on morning I have had this morning. First though, after I published the blog yesterday afternoon we had a situation. John shouted, you better come out here the goose is not well, it’s backside is hanging out 🙄 I go out and sure enough the goose had…
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Flowers, singing for Beltane and and bit of rain 😁
Monday: 25th April 2022: A new week, tad chillier this week in the morning but it did warm up as the day went on. John had to phone the doctor this morning about his arm, who sent him to the MIU (who didn’t want to see him at the weekend) for an x-ray, when he…
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Tulips, Bluebells & other non flower stuff 😝
Monday 18th April, Bank Holiday Monday: Taking it fairly easy today , every day is a work day but some are more work than others 😂 John spent a couple of hours burning all the rubbish, that is cardboard rubbish and tree clipping rubbish from a few weeks ago then he spent the rest of…
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Planting, sowing and picking.
Wednesday 13th April 2022: Ooo it’s Wednesday and so far I haven’t written a thing 🤪 That’s because I was pretty busy Monday doing all the usual jobs, some bits in the greenhouse, watering everything that was looking dry, housework and some paperwork bits. I had to get that all sorted because late afternoon I…
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Direct sowing, flower crowns & a steam train ride.
Monday 4th April 2022: Weeeee it’s Momday again and this week I am covid free 😁 It was raining this morning which is brilliant because we have not had any rain for ages and the water tanks are getting a bit dry. I think we have a good bit forecast on and off this week…
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🦠 it got me 🙄 a bit of baking & everything else.
Monday 28th March 2022: I spent most of the day doing bits and pieces, pottering, call it what you will. I got a few plants in the ground in various places, watered some of the pots and watered the greenhouse but apart from that nothing major. There was plenty I could have got done but…
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Spring cleaning, sad news & my first bouquet 😁
Monday 21st March 2022: A new week and I will try and keep my fat fingers under control 😂 The temperatures are looking great for the week ahead climbing up to 19c which will be great on the one hand but on the other I will be monitoring how well I feel out in it.…
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Fat fingers 🤪 lovely weather and so plenty to do.
Oh ffs 🤦♀️ fat fingers meant I missed the target of save draft and hit discard by accident arrrrgggghhhh. It’s Thursday and I have lost Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 😝 Basic round up of lost days 😜: I mostly spent Monday and Tuesday in the greenhouse and potting up self set seedlings and plantlets such…
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Seed sowing, tree cutting and a trip to the Wildlife Park.
Monday 7th March 2022: Weeeeeeee sliding into another week 😁 Today the weather has been lovely, the sun came out and although the breeze was a tad cold it was delightful working weather. So that is exactly what I have been doing, working outside, I had decided if it was raining I would do housework…
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Sowing, Planting & 2nd place (I will take that 😁)
Monday 28th February 2022: There was a beautiful pink glow in the sky this morning before it turned to drizzle. To say I felt sick yesterday when Putin started talking about Nuclear alert was an understatement and I am sure that the vast majority of you felt the same. How is it in this day…
