The vegetable patch is usually a very sunny and protected place to be, but our windbreak of sitka spruce has grown a little too enthusiastically in the past two years. Even on a sunny day like today the vegetable are shaded for almost two-thirds of the day. It will be worse come autumn and winter. [...]
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Earthing up
1 June, 2012
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About two-thirds of our potatoes have finally come through, enabling me to earth them up for the first time today. The long, cool and overcast spring make it unlikely we’ll have new potatoes to eat at the end of this month or even before mid-July but, fingers crossed, we hope to lift first ones in [...]
Read more A pig of a day
26 May, 2012
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The sun is shining, the temperature is in the mid-20s and our Berkshire pigs need to cool off. Yes, it’s another job for Two-Legs. Once or twice a day I go out with the buckets and a watering can to replenish the wallows and give the pigs a shower. Delilah, who’s out with a litter, [...]
Read more ‘Go away, I’m busy”
25 May, 2012
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Humans may enjoy pushing mowers around, lifting stones, knocking in fence posts and wrestling with sump plugs, but a Border Terrier knows the hardest work is done with eyes closed in a cool corner.
Read moreA long day’s work
24 May, 2012
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Up at 6am. Breakfasts made, lunches made. Other Half packed off to work. Boys dressed and pushed out the door for school. Pigs and chickens fed and watered. Wallows filled. Out mowing at 8.10am. Shifted to working on the drystone dyke after an hour. Back mowing at 11am.
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