Yesterday I asked you to identify what this was:
Arjan and Dad Who Writes thought it was a giant courgette. Don’t they know that giant courgettes are actually called marrows? Arjan I can forgive because his first language is Holandish (or is that Netherlandese), but for Dad Who Writes there is no excuse. Go away [...] Read more »
Amy’s school had their harvest festival last week, which was good because we had a particular revolting brand of tinned spaghetti in the cupboard we needed to get shot of. I often think that there should be some sort of international UN or NATO version of harvest festival; where all the wealthy western [...] Read more »
Due to a pretty crappy day at work yesterday I didn’t have sufficient levels of optimism to check to see if the chickens had started laying. Which meant that when I had a look today I was greeted by a rather impressive bumper crop of first eggs.
By the looks of it I’ve got [...] Read more »
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I’ve really made some headway in the garden this year. Over the past 12 months it’s gone from looking like this:
to this:
Ok, so they are taken from different angles, but you get the idea
However fortunes have not all run smooth on Old McHughes’ farm over the past couple of weeks.
On the plus side [...] Read more »
Last month I got a brand new lawn mower. It’s one of those man-powered push along ones, and I must say I’m very happy with it. I’d previously been using an electric one that Craig had given me. It had been sitting in his garage unused for years. The mower cut the [...] Read more »
I know you’ve all been pretty desperate to find out what’s been going on with my chickens whilst we were in the US. Well, they got bloody huge, that’s what happened.
In just six weeks they have gone from from this:
To this:
Pretty amazing stuff.
They aren’t fully grown yet, that will take another [...] Read more »
These are the things I am doing at the moment:
Working full time
Looking after the kids two days a week
Organizing the logistics of the Dales Walk
Fundraising for the Dales Walk
Training for the Dales Walk
Blogging nearly every day
But perhaps that’s not enough. Hercules had twelve labors and I’m only managing six. I need to up [...] Read more »
Many people say that gardening with children is an ideal way to introduce them to basic scientific experiments. Today Amy, Evan and I have been finding out if it is possible to move more dirt inside the house than there is outside.
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In July of this year I shall be walking 78 miles in 6 [...] Read more »
This is a picture of the field that adjoins our garden. It is neglected and bramble ridden and has no useful purpose other than providing us with blackberries in the autumn. It’s potential is great, and I have many romantic ideas of how I would use it to raise livestock and grow vegetables.
Finally [...] Read more »
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