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It was Millie’s birthday so we invited her to the farm for afternoon tea, a walk in the woods and a fry-up. We sent her home with tomatoes and cucumbers from our bounty. We need to stagger the planting next year so everything is not ready all at the one time. We baked a cakeContinue reading “All Day Breakfast”

Our posts always show photos taken in the sunshine when we can do stuff outside, so I thought I would show you some taken in the unrelenting precipitation which is part of life in this part of the world. I sometimes wonder if we could share the love and blow some clouds to the aridContinue reading “Singin’ in the Rain”

Our art student is back for holidays until her new student digs are ready. So she has been casting her arty eyes over the farm. Here are two of her fab photos.

Warning***rude vegetables in this post (and I’m not talking about the cucumbers) I don’t think I have introduced you to Margo the ferret. She likes to come out and have a mad half hour running about like an animated draught excluder, all the while making “puppuppuppuppupp” sounds. She was after my beer, sorry Margo, itContinue reading “Does this remind you of That’s Life with Esther Rantzen?”

Warning*** this post might be a bit rude/disgusting On Friday evening, we had imbibed a glass or two of the red stuff with a lovely steak dinner. The Experts invited us over to their abode for more wine, so of course we agreed. During the course of consuming several more bottles, the midges came outContinue reading “Touching Cloth”

Early August and the temperature has dipped already. We had a flood of water off the fields threatening the patio and the polytunnel. When it dries, if it dries, we need to get the local agricultural contractor to fix the broken drains and scrape the drive. We have all been feeling cold, so we gotContinue reading “Thinking About Winter”

As you know, Cushy Butterfield has arthritis. She also has an abscess in her hoof which was cut out by our farrier. So now when she goes out to the field she has to wear a welly to stop dirt or dampness getting in as that will encourage the nasty bugs in her hoof. SheContinue reading “Cushy Butterfield’s Welly”

This week saw the blackcurrants achieve full ripeness. They were hanging like grapes so we decided to make jam. GSS followed us with his camera to get a photo-montage feel to recording the process. I can’t wait for the blackberries to be ripe. We have lots of them. I’ve heard you can get damaged pickingContinue reading “In A Jam”

We are coming up for a year on the farm. Whilst I’m trying to think up what we can do for a party whilst still in partial lockdown, I took some time to look at photos taken when we got the keys last year (on the left hand side below) and how the place looksContinue reading “What a Difference a Year Makes”

Millie came to visit yesterday so Geordie Smallholder hitched up the trailer to the tractor so that those of us nursing sore joints could go see the waterfall at the very southerly tip of the farm. The journey down was very bumpy and Doofus sat on me the whole time. He weighs a ton btw.Continue reading “Journey to the Edge”