You've got to retain a sense of humour. Pruning Orchard Fruits This week's big job has been pruning the fruit trees and bushes. Thes...

Sunday 19th November 2017 A Prickly Job While Sue was inside making medlar jelly, I continued the job of pruning the gooseberries. Today...

Monday 13th November 2017 A birdy day The gorgeous, crisp weather continues. I spent the day cleaning the chicken houses and liberally ap...

12th July Elvis did not come out with her ducklings this morning. As I suspected, she is stepping back and letting them get on with growing...

The rabbits are back. Not many (yet), but one is in the soft fruit patch and one is making the occasional scraping in the flower borders. I...

When we started setting up the smallholding, I planted a few soft fruit bushes. They were very small and took a while to develop. Among them...

OK, we've already had the rhubarb and the asparagus. And most welcome they were too. But for the last couple of weeks harvest has bee...

Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me... Another computer gave up on me! But I've got it back now. Problem is, I go a c...