I’m sitting here at quarter past nine on a Saturday morning wondering whether I ought to be going out for a run, making a start on my freelance work this morning, tidying the house or perhaps tidying the back doorstep for the milkman (as of last Monday, we now have organic milk via our local [...]
The last you heard from me, July was a busy month and I was generally running around going “Arrggghhh! Stuff to do!!!!”. Halfway through August, that hasn’t changed one iota, as generally the list of Things to Do lengthens, and my freelance work remains (thankfully) steady. A couple of weeks ago, we managed to get [...]
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We’ve been working on clearing out an overgrown corner of the Smallest Smallholding so we can have a Mediterranean-style eating area with loads of wildlife/bee-friendly, drought-tolerant plants. It gets sun pretty much all day and the soil is incredibly poor… but that’s OK for some plants! A massively, huge, immense job but I’m determined to [...]
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Well I’ve gone and done it. After three or more years of waiting for Rich to have the time and inclination to build my greenhouse staging, I bit the bullet and ordered some online, just to get me started. It’s three tier staging - 4ft long and 2ft wide and about a third of the [...]
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