Tag: Vegetables
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Rain, homegrown passata and a broken tractor 😕
Monday 24th August: Rattling through the weeks, I think like most people I will be glad to see the back of 2020, while not wanting to wish my life away it’s been a tough year by anyone’s standards 😜 It’s just gone 2pm and I am all plummed out I reckon, I spent the first…
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Changeable weather, plenty of produce, especially plums 😂
Monday 17th August 2020: Up and about this morning get some veg picked, I think I need a bigger basket 😂 loads of tomatoes this morning and the conference pears were ready to pick. After sorting it all out, putting some out for sale, finding homes for the rest of it, I got started on…
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Hot, hot, hot, wet, wet, wet & work, work, work 🥵 ☔️ 🏋🏻♀️
Monday 10th August: Monday again, it comes round with prompt regularity 🤪 I set the alarm for an early morning as it’s been so hot and I really need to get a few jobs done. I did hit the snooze button three times before I finally got up at 5.30am. The air was deliciously cool…
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Lunch in the City 😲 plenty of plums & RIP Benny 😢
Monday 3rd August: This morning I whizzed around and got a few things done ( made two banana loaves and a greengage and vanilla tart) before going out for lunch in Oxford with Charlie as a birthday treat. We went to The Alchemist, the food was delicious and it all felt very safe and social…
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Plums, Lammas & plenty of produce 😀
Apologies for the lateness of this we are still having problems with the landline and internet and uploading is difficult 🤪 Monday 27th July 2020: It’s wet this morning and we have had some terrific downpours over the weekend, great for the garden not so great for getting outside 😜 The phonline saga still continues…
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A trip down memory lane, the twins 1st birthdays and the phone line saga continues 🤬
Monday 20th July 2020: John is working again this week, I am not sure when he will next have any time off now things seem to be getting back to normalish. Before he went he did the morning feeding and letting out, I did the horses water and found some greens for the guineas, quail…
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A pick ‘n’ mix of a week 😜
Monday 13th July 2020: It was a sunny start though the sun seems to have disappeared behind clouds now which is great for me. I did a bit of picking first thing this morning, rhubarb, dwarf beans, courgettes, a marrow, beetroot, salad turnips, French breakfast radish and white globe radish plus a few blueberries and…
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Hedgehogs…plural 😀😀 gremlins & the weather 😜
Monday 6th July 2020: Oh my days where is the year going 😏 July already and the world is still in the grips of the pandemic. The UK has eased lockdown measures and at the weekend pubs opened their doors for the first time in over three months. We did not rush out to go…
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Windy weather, picking and freezing & John returns home.
Monday 29th June 2020: It very windy today, I’m sure we don’t normally have winds as strong as this in June 🙄 yesterday was the same, strong enough to damage plants and whip bits off of trees 😏 I spent the night on my own here which is only the second time in 11 years…
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Curveball INCOMING……………🙄
Monday 22nd June 2020: And here we are back round at Monday again, still in the throes of a pandemic but hopefully coming out the other side slowly. We have had a constant day today, plenty of jobs and constantly busy. We started off with a bit of tractor work which John did, dragging the…
