6:30 am.Woke up. Slowly realised it was too light. Promised snow must have arrived. Disappeared under duvet. 7:00am alarm goes off. Contemplate getting up. Soon after, I hear my mobile phone, down in the kitchen. Beep. A text message has come in. Hmm. Early morning text plus snow. School […]
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A Jolly Good Egg!
After what seems like months of no eggs, one of our old girls have laid. Yeh! Not bad considering that there’s not a spring chicken among them. Five hens aged between 3 and 6 years old. Maybe they are feeling the days drawing out again.
Read moreBright Spikes
We had a proper hard frost this morning. It was still there at elevenses, when I finally rushed out and took some photos. It was so cold that the little frost spikes had grown longer in the meantime. I love the frost. It brightens up the day. Every outside surface […]
Read moreElf Point time again!
It’s Elf Point time again. The children have been eagerly waiting for these little felt magnets to appear on the fridge. So eagerly that they practised getting elf points for a few days before. Like a rehearsal. I was tempted to introduce an Elf on the Shelf to the household, […]
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