Creating a B&B garden
The polytunnel is going up in an effort to have it ready for the spring planting. It’s a distraction in some ways as it’s meant a LOT of digging and levelling and hefting of wheelbarrows and wheelbarrows and wheelbarrows of…
January change of pace
It’s maintenance time! The last jollities of New Year done and dusted, so up early, on with the wellies and out into the orchard to get the polytunnel up (all year greens for me, breakfast for guests, and a little…
Life after hens
The reptilian glare of a chicken is quite off-putting. Chickens seem so alien, compared to other birds – robins and blackbirds – with their exaggerated walk and scaly legs, and that beady eye. It’s so very hard to imagine that…