Lucy on October 1st, 2011

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 [...]

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Lucy on February 4th, 2011

Batten the hatches!
It’s REALLY windy today. At least my new greenhouse panes are still in situ though - hurrah (above is a picture of me trying very hard to get the pane to fit).
I should be rattling through some freelance work at the moment, but the truth is, it’s gone 10am and I’m propped up [...]

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Lucy on September 6th, 2009

I’ve not been doing much on my Smallest Smallholding lately. Bit of grass cutting, tidying, tiny bit of weeding and raking up fallen plums and apples.
But one job I have been keen to do regularly is collect seeds. I can’t remember if I’d posted about this before (and I could just stop being incredibly lazy [...]

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It sounds like some of you had just as a good a weekend as I did last week. And I can’t believe that already, I’m in the middle of yet another weekend. The week just seemed to zoom by. As much as I love the weekend, it worries me a bit that time seems to [...]

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