The Deluge The final figures will probably show a slightly drier year than average. But in truth, most of our rain in 2017 has come in about twelve days. It has been a year of long dry spells, then periodically we get "a month's worth of rain" in a day, as the weather commentators say.
Just in case we were falling behind our allotted average, we had fifteen hours of constant rain last night, pretty much from dusk till dawn. Next door's horse paddock was looking more like a lake.
Two traditional Christmas dinners in a row were very nice, but a third would be stretching it. So today I cooked up my first ever risotto, using up a small pumpkin and half of what remains of the turkey in the process. It was rather yummy and not a sprout in sight. There is a great website for turkey recipes at www.britishturkey.co.uk so the turkeys who think they got away with it when they spent Christmas day alive and well may still be in for a surprise!Thursday 28th December 2017
The Luckiest of Turkeys
Not only have the turkeys survived Christmas, but they also have a new home. The old pig enclosure is too ramshackle now to ever hold pigs again and just fills up with nettles, presumably thriving on the enriched ground. The only animals on the farm who will enthusiastically eat the nettles are the turkeys, so this seemed like logical place to move them to. The other advantage of this plan is that we get back a substantial lump of the orchard and the turkeys are further away from our boundary with next door. Hopefully I can let one or two out occasionally and they will still hang around the vicinity if the others remain in the cage.
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| The turkeys have moved in next to the trio of Ixworth chickens |
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| The orchard is much more open now |
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| The turkeys have settled in quickly |
I have been sleeping a lot lately. My guess is that I've been fighting off some sort of virus. But yesterday I had more energy. It was the first time this holiday that I have spent most of the day working outside. And today I awoke at 4am and just didn't feel like going back to sleep. I dressed up warm and headed out to the stables. The ground was sparkling and flurries of snow were falling from the sky. For we have entered another cold spell.
Main job for the day was taking Arthur to the vets for his vaccinations, but before that I wanted to clear the stable area. In a couple of days time we are showing several other people how to dispatch and process chickens and ducks and we need a tidy covered space in which to do it.
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