April's Showers Arrive Late I wouldn't be English if I didn't open with the weather. We've finally has some of this... Rathe...

Finally it rained! A little at first, on my birthday. Just an hour or so, but enough to wake the grass up a little. We had been enjoy...

Sunday 1st April Is this an April Fool's Prank? Wet does not describe it! The whole smallholding has basically been transformed i...

Monday 21st November 2016 Until this weekend I only knew one Angry Angus, a farmer in a little place called Break on the Shetland Isles. Bu...

9th July Rainwater harvesting for the polytunnel Heavy rain when I woke up, so I hastily hooked up a hosepipe to the overflowing water but...

The rest of the world may bemoan the onset of rain, but anybody who lives off the land and still maintains an affinity with nature will appr...

Despite the screen on my phone last Sunday, I had to wait till Thursday before we had any appreciable rain. This was our first rain for almo...

Water from a tap and water from the sky are two completely different compounds.   A few days ago I connected up the hosepipe to fill a...

Yesterday was cider making day. A small group of us spent the day cutting, bashing, squashing and squeezing a third of a ton of apples. The ...