Lucy on July 3rd, 2011

Prologue: I wrote this about 5 weeks ago and never published it. Whoops. I’ve been so busy. SO busy - very sorry for the lack of blog updates. But I will be blogging again soon. Promise.
I’ve just been on a pre-lunch potter, and discovered that in just one square metre of our pretty substantial nettle [...]

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Lucy on March 20th, 2011

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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Lucy on March 19th, 2011

This post was written earlier this week - sorry about the delay!

I’ve had to swap my days at work this week because at 4am on Monday morning, I was wide awake with a dodgy back that spasmed and would not let me rest. At 28, this is a muscular problem that I’ve lived with for [...]

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Lucy on February 26th, 2011

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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