We have rain. Lots of rain, with strong winds. My outside loving children are getting a little bit stir crazy. Being blown around, every time they step outside, is wearing thin. A new fun activity was required to fill their afternoon. I found three small cork boards (50p each!) whilst […]
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Hello Sunshine!
What a difference two days of sunshine make! Finally, we could enjoy the garden again. Cucumbers have been planted, clothes dried on the line, salad seeds scattered, grass has been cut. (Is it just me, or does everyone feel the house is tidier if the grass is short?) Our wild-rabbits-and-stray-chickens-in-the-kitchen-garden […]
Read moreWeekend Musings
Weekend musings: 1. Loved making the little knitted robin, but I could not imagine making lots of identical birds. They would all have to be different. 2. Out of all the seeds I sow each Spring, it is the cucumber seedling that is the most exciting to see emerge. At […]
Read moreGardening Journal: Start seed sowing
Joining in with Ginny‘s Saturday garden journal. I usually keep a written version that peters out at some point, but it would be good to compare one year to the next. Saturday 10th March Greenhouse: Now clear. Chickens have been using it as a dust bath this week. Kitchen garden: […]
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