I thought you might be interested in how Geordie Smallholder spends his day so I followed him around the farm yesterday. I don’t think he was very pleased as I had my phone camera set to flash all the time and I kept blinding him. That’s the price of fame lol.
Big Red won’t start 
Sorted..ah
The first task of the day was to take the recycling bins up to the road end for collection. However, having not been used since last week, and since it was raining, Big Red didn’t feel like going out. GS had to perform a laying on of hands and then got the defibrillator out. Big Red started after that. Sorted. GS took the bins to the main road and left them out before the collection wagon came, but it was all a bit rushed.
Next it was time to take Doofus for a walk, but that was not without incident either….
“First you must feed me so that I have energy for my nefarious plans today”
“Nope, you get fed at night and you have a full bowl of crunchies, and you are meant to be vermin control, so go control vermin, but not birds.”
“Why you no let us out?”
“Because it’s raining and the mud is bad for your wee feet”
“Hey, where you go? You didn’t feed me! I will trip you up when you back, you know!”
“I’m not talking to you till you let us out.”
“Up to you, Timbo, up to you.”
After walking the dog, GS did the rounds of the farm.
Can you beet it? 
Spare me the gutter
After tea, there was ordering parts needed for more guttering required, then it was lunch.
GSM made two delicious cakes, chocolate, and a plain sponge sandwich. GS couldn’t decide which one to have after his sandwich, so he had a piece of each. I did too, they were great.
Planting in the polytunnel 
Our first planting
We planted seeds and onion sets in the polytunnel to try to gain a step on the short growing season we have here. We are also trying to do succession planting so that we can offer fresh produce over as long a period as possible to our future veg box customers. Our first produce should be available in July and will mainly be salad leaves, cucumbers and tomatoes.
Butter sugar and milk heated slowly 
All melted 
Slow boil 
Getting there 
All fudgy and delicious 
Beating for reduced graininess
I made tablet successfully for the first time. Well, I say successfully but I over beat it and it’s very creamy, so much so that it’s not really tablet. Melts in the mouth though. I will see if I can keep some for the Experts, but it’s very delicious and good on ice cream yum.
The Geordie Smallholder 