Sunday, 23 November 2014
Bread and Butter... 1/07/2014
This week's aggravation of and old back injury has restricted activities, however bread and butter making went ahead as planned. Tomorrow morning's breakfast is looking promising...... Thanks to the Baynes family, http://www.northumbrianpedigree.com/ for the wonderful cream used in the butter, their milk and cream is highly recommended! I must get some bees, the table is looking bare without honey!!
Farmer Jonny 22/06/2014
Jonny has taken a short break from tree surgery for a few months to help on his girlfriend's father's farm. At the moment they are busy cutting and baling silage for the dairy herd, and working around sixteen hours a day!
Helen, who is planning to start a land management degree at Harper Adams University this year, enjoyed a bit of time riding with Jonny while he was leading the bales into the yard this morning. I sense that she is keen to try a bit of tractor work herself........
Helen, who is planning to start a land management degree at Harper Adams University this year, enjoyed a bit of time riding with Jonny while he was leading the bales into the yard this morning. I sense that she is keen to try a bit of tractor work herself........
Underneath the Spreading Greengage Tree...!! 21/06/2014
It was a glorious, sunny and hot morning up at the cottage, Boris our Muscovy drake was enjoying a few minutes resting in the dappled shade of the greengauge tree while the ducks were laying, and swimming in the pond. Boris no longer goes in for this "Cleanliness nonsense"!!
Sadly the afternoon has been overcast and disappointing.
Sadly the afternoon has been overcast and disappointing.
Wild Dog Roses 19/06/2014
The broom flowers are starting fade at the cottage and the seed pods are forming but the wild dog roses are now coming into glorious flower.
Rosa Meg Merrilees 18/06/2014
At the far end of the field at the cottage, behind the young Horse Chestnut tree, our lovely old collie Meg is buried. A couple of years ago and after a long search, we found this rose to mark her grave. Appropriately a "dog rose" Rosa Meg Merrilees, which always flowers quite early in the season and is now in full bloom, providing an excellent reminder of our dear old dog. Well worth the long drive to the Larch Cottage Nurseries just south of Penrith in the Lake District to find this rare rose.
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