Off to get the straw at last. Our local farmer has collected a small load from Aylesbury of all places. His usual supplier hasn’t got any this year due to the poor Summer weather. Naturally the cost reflected the supply/demand model, but we have some for Christmas, and need more!
We wanted 20+ but Andrew and I have damaged shoulders, so we went for a low-loader approach which I wasn’t happy about. The rear overhang obscured the lights to a degree – visible but in danger of rear-end droop if the bales gave way to gravity.
Still, off-loading was easier! We ended up with 25 bales, and of course the dogs enjoyed helping.
Three months into playing in the tunnel, what is it looking like? https://youtu.be/L9Da85uCQUQ?is=4wKPIP_pLAxEz5gp
The cockchafer or the ‘doodlebug’, a nickname later given to the V-1 flying bomb of WWII…
The time is late afternoon, the date is early May, after some heavy rain and…
Our wild flower meadow and orchard is a riot of colour and activity from the…
and the Turkey is already fat! But rather incongruously she is in the garden! Not…