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Went surprisingly well! We all kept forgetting it wasn’t actually Christmas Day for everyone else…

Pseudo! Tomorrow is our first Christmas Day – Ding and Dong are at Dong’s for the real day. First time I’ve sat down in 6-7 hours. Turkey is jointed, stuffed, covered in butter and bacon and sitting on a bed … Continue reading →

Moved gooseberries, planted three raspberries, all the strawberries, 18 garlic, 11 shallots and something like 45 onions. Spread manure on Friday on the potato patch. Temp 4-17 degC – plan is to repot the chili next Friday. Also planted the … Continue reading →

I thought I’d share a few new blogs I follow with you: Operation Rubber Boot – My cous Tolly and her boyfriend Matt have gone on a round the world trip for something like 18 months. It’s early days but the … Continue reading →

Woo! Tree #2 had evidently sneezed at some point and I have something like 1.5kg windfall medlars! I think that’s enough for anyone to be getting on with…

Week and weekend just gone, 4-22 degC and the broad beans in the mini green house, and the onions and some shallots on the step all growing like weeds. No difference between manured and non-matured beans so looks like the … Continue reading →

Could be temperature, could be temporary. Could be both… Week gone – 2-23 Weekend – 9-22

I’m watching River Cottage. HFW went “flesh free” for the summer – no meat and no fish. He’s not a vegetarian and isn’t planning to become one, but it’s part of the “eat less meat” campaign, as as a culture … Continue reading →

Yesterday was part of my birthday celebration! We (Mum, Dad, Nan, Ding, Dong and me) went to Colne Valley Railway and had lunch on a train – steam and diesel (the engines supposedly swapped, but we couldn’t see from inside … Continue reading →

The bagfull of chestnuts became 487g chestnut crumble/flour today. Boiled for 3 mins then drained, cut each one in half and scooped out the crumbly innards. This worked better over peeling them as the inner skin stayed in the shell, … Continue reading →