The weather has turned chilly over the past couple of days, so we’ve stepped up the harvest and started stripping all the remaining soft fruit from their bushes. It was the turn of the gooseberries today, with the Other Half and I steadfastly ignoring a swarm of wasps to pick the last 1.5kg of berries. [...]
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Archive | August, 2010
A typical late summer’s day…
29 August, 2010
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The rain has been bucketing down here, again. Much of the croft has at least an inch of water sloshing over it, turning into rivulets and then streams as it washes down the hill. On top of that, it’s blowing a gale with trees losing branches, rubbish blowing in from all around, and buckets blowing [...]
Read moreWhere did all the grass go?
28 August, 2010
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Compare this photo with the ones taken 10 days ago. It doesn’t take a sow and seven piglets long to clear a 20 metre by 20 metre outdoor pen. When the litter is weaned at eight weeks of age even this remaining grass will be almost entirely gone. Photo by the Wee ‘Un.
Read moreHens may have mycoplasmosis
26 August, 2010
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We may have a case, possibly two, of mycoplasmosis in our chickens. Earlier today I noticed one of the Scots Grey hens sneezing. I caught her and immediately noticed she was a little less heavy than she should be. The hen also had a slight but noticeable rasp to her breathing, an elevated temperature and [...]
Read more Foraging for dinner
26 August, 2010
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We’re having home-made fennel sausages (or fish for the Other Half) for dinner, so I sent the Wee ‘Un out to collect three different vegetables to have with them. He decided we’d have new potatoes, baby carrots and swiss chard, then happily set about collecting them. Delicious.
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