2/30: Peaks

Of course there’s always the danger that I’ll get halfway through this month of posting and run out of things to say. Suzy tells me that we’ll make sure to Do Exciting Stuff to avoid that happening though. The first half of the month shouldn’t be too difficult, as I’m spending several days of it [...]

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Unstoppable menace

With so much rain falling recently, I erected a kind of shanty town in the vegetable patch in an effort to keep my tomatoes somewhat drier. Cutting black plastic sacks into sheets I tied them together as a roof over the plants, held in place by the canes that were already helping to keep the [...]

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Shepherds’ delight

There have been some wonderful evening skies recently, one in particular turning bright, startling pink in just the few moments I had turned my back to it, giving me quite a start when I turned back to the window. These pinks and blues have become quite commonplace for the moment, which is rather nice – [...]

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7 Days: Day 2 – Bright

This is what I do when snow falls, I sit and stare out of the window at it. Then I turn back into the room and can’t see a damn thing. We didn’t have all that much snow in the latest fall, but it was just enough to make the roads difficult. I’m hoping that [...]

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Snow days

A lot of the UK is under a layer of snow at the moment. Ours arrived Monday night and it snowed all Tuesday but didn’t settle. Then Wednesday came and the snow continued to fall and settled. Now it’s Thursday and the snow is still falling in tiny flakes from the sky, giving us about [...]

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It rained a little today …

but not all day …

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Another snow day

Just as I was bemoaning the lack of anything blogworthy and the fact I’d not yet written anything in the new year, another pile of snow came to town. Not as much as before, but enough to keep Mum off school and my head turned to the window, seriously impeding any progress I may have [...]

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7 Days: Day 2 – Treat

Making treats for the birds out of melted lard, chopped up lamb and fat, mixed together with a big bunch of bird seed. The ordinary bird feeders have been refilled and when the coconut half and fir cones full of the lardy seed mixture have hardened, the birds can have those to peck at too [...]

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