Tag: Vegetables
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A farewell, a home brew & Christmas cards
Thursday 4th November: Again it’s midweek before I think of sitting down to write the blog, not sure why that is happening but I will try to be better otherwise I forget things. Monday I spent the morning cleaning and then making some banana bread in the early afternoon before doing the afternoon feed and…
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Half term antics, a wedding & Samhain 😁😁😁
It is Wednesday and I realise I have not written a single thing for the blog! The main reason for that is that I have had other things on my mind and plenty to do that is not Smallholding related. Tomorrow is Charlotte and Maccas wedding day 🥰 and so as you can imagine I…
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A mixed bag of a week 😏
Monday 18th October: I had fully intended to get a fair amount done today but in the end I didn’t. The one thing I did do was to get the tortoises inside ready for the winter sleep. I found Voldy pretty easily he was still out and about, when I started searching for big billy…
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Wood chip, garden bounty & a change of plans.
Monday 11th October 2021: Must try harder to write every day and not forget like I did last week 🤪 Already this morning the plans I had have changed and it’s only 9.30 am. I had a phone call from a tree company who are working in the area had want to bring wood chip😁…
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Lots of tidying up, some flower arranging & a bit of foraging.
Monday 4th October 2021: A nice day for the best part, a little rain in the afternoon but only quick showers really. I had decided how my day was going to go and got on with things only to get a phone call from John at around 9am. The job he was starting this week…
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Autumn is here, getting my stores in & preparing for Winter.
Monday 27th September 2021: Autumn made itself known this morning, we have had sunshine and warm temperatures for a few weeks now but this morning we woke to windy, rainy weather and the temps are a tad lower than they have been. The sun did break through though and most of the day was nice…
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Surprise 😲 a day trip & ooopsie I forgot 🤪
Sunday afternoon: thought I would just add this in as I did do a bit in the afternoon, I hadn’t intended to but John said it was going to rain and be really windy 🙄 I thought, in that case I had better do a bit of picking while it was sunny and dry and…
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Tomato soup, a picture & a relaxing weekend.
Monday 13th September 2021: The morning after the weekend before 😂 and while it took us a week to put up the hen do village it only took a couple of hours to take a lot of it back down. There is a lot left to remove and sort out mind you and that is…
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A busy week, harvesting and processing & the reason for the busy week 🥰
Thursday: Yes it’s Thursday before I even realised I hadn’t written a single thing for the blog 🤣 Thats because I ha e been so busy I haven’t even had time to think about it at all. Most of the early week was wall to wall blue sky and it was pretty hot so that…
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A bank holiday, more of the harvest & the sun finally came out!
Monday 30th August 2021: Bank Holiday Monday, it’s nice having an extra day at the weekend, shame we can’t do it every weekend. We set the alarm for 6.30 this morning even though it’s a holiday, better start practising for the working week ahead, John has jobs to go to and I have plenty to…
