Posted in being greener, general wittering, grow your own food, house and home, self-sufficiency, vegetables on 10 May 2008 | No Comments »
very hot here today - which actually got in the way a tad, of all the things I wanted to get done - as wilting was not on the list! I burn so easily that I mostly avoid the mid day sun.. perhaps I should take to siestas!
By 4 it was just perfect - and [...]
Posted in being greener, frugal living, general wittering, house and home on 9 May 2008 | 2 Comments »
I have mentioned a few times that we have too much lawn.. despite digging lots of it up for veg patches.. and plan to bring the fruit garden into the lawn next year.. but still we face the irony of cutting the grass being the only time we use motorised machinery to do any work [...]
Posted in general wittering on 6 May 2008 | No Comments »
I don’t know why I keep listening to weather forecasts. They so often get it wrong. Sometimes they even get the current situation wrong! - it will say pouring with rain now .. and its sunny! Mostly they tell of gloom.. half an hour’s rain means rain is forecast.. not sun…
The forecast was wrong for [...]
Posted in general wittering, grow your own food, recipes, self-sufficiency on 3 May 2008 | No Comments »
a very good day - we took part in a community event and walked around a wood owned by one our neighbours - really inspiring, planted twenty years ago, and looks wonderful. We would like to put some trees in for coppicing - we don’t have enough land to supply ourselves with firewood, but we [...]
Posted in being greener, frugal living, general wittering, house and home, self-sufficiency, tagged solar energy on 29 April 2008 | No Comments »
I remember my mum once telling a visitor that the reason they were insulating the loft was because the garden was falling into the river.
It’s logical really - let me explain. My parents had chosen to buy a house with problems, and a large garden, rather than a perfect house with no garden. ( See? it [...]
Posted in general wittering, house and home, self-sufficiency, tagged nettles on 27 April 2008 | 8 Comments »
We have far too many nettles.. in the hedges, in the ‘wild’ areas (such as around the pit of despair), but most annoyingly in the fields. The fields were let go a great deal before we got here and the fight against the nettles seems never ending. They are out as far as two metres [...]
Posted in general wittering, grow your own food, house and home, self-sufficiency, vegetables, tagged butterflies, scything, vegetables on 26 April 2008 | No Comments »
Lots of flowers out in the garden now, the bluebells are out in force, and we have white and pink ones in the garden, as well as ordinary blue ones in the lane and under the trees. Also see a surprisingly large number of butterflies.. are they early or am I just mis-remembering when they [...]
Posted in chickens, general wittering, grow your own food, tagged chickens on 24 April 2008 | No Comments »
Despite Stoney pointing out that chickens are better at numeracy than sheep.. they are still stupid.
We have 4 hens… one is brooding her chicks, and one is not laying (and if she keeps this up.. the word ‘casserole’ might be mentioned a bit more), so that leaves us with two hens laying eggs. In the [...]
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