yesterday evening, the sun popped out and was surprisingly warm.. as though it was July or something.Today though, the weather forecasters were right with their 100% chance of rain prediction. It has rained hard, all day. Must sort out a rainwater toilet flush system…
We still indulged in more belligerent gardening, well harvesting anyway, and dug [...]
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More fun at the hobbies, crafting weekend. We (himself and I) used the peg loom for the first time. We have been dyeing fleece for many months now, and this is what it looks like peg loomed. We need to dye yet more before it’s the right size.
I did not intend it to have so [...]
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Terrible weather.. stormy and rainy. Poor plants are taking a battering.
On the plus side, friends have organised a crafting weekend, a great idea - we all come together and do our various hobbies. We have been spinning, knitting and peg looming. And I finished the jumper for my son.
Finally! I finished a project before he [...]
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It’s been raining heavily all afternoon, so aside from regular trips to the hen run to try to collect the eggs before the rats do, I have been indoors, and have done a load of cooking for the weekend.
I made pumpkin scones:
A courgette and feta quiche:
some jam tarts (well you know how it is… left [...]
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The question we had to ask ourselves yesterday, was why were two eggs left behind? And we feared it might be that they were bad, and there was a slight wiff, though that might not have been both.. Although not sure that rats are that discerning, as the eggs were due to hatch today, we [...]
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the eggs under our broody hen are due to hatch tomorrow. She’s a good girl, sits tight, and only gets off the nest once a day to eat and poo, and we don’t see her, but see the evidence. Today, when he was checking the animals before work, himself saw she was out eating, so [...]
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as promised, here are pictures of our ‘chicks’ - they are about 3/4 size of the other hens. They are now 12 weeks old (makes you think about the rate those intensively farmed hens grow eh?)
They are supposed to be marans, and two black ones look like it.. but the golden browney one doesn’t much.
what [...]
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picked our first - yay. There are many reasons to grow your own veg, and one of them is for peas. Peas freshly picked from the garden are the tastiest (the ones that make it as far as the kitchen!). Even made it worthwhile picking in the wind and rain in our wellies and raincoats [...]
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