January 2024
Happy New Year and all the best for 2024
Monday 1 January, 2024
Happy New Year and all the best for 2024!
Here’s the last two weeks or so in images.
Tuesday 26th December, Dan had a bonfire. Still burning on Wednesday morning .
Home, 29th December. Before the next storm.
Ivy / Cables / Flood
Tuesday 9 January, 2024
Monday 1st January
Well, here we are, all bright eyed and bushy tailed for a new year! Garden is going to be top of the agenda along with finding some decent teabags.
Tuesday 2nd January
Right, list making and taking the decorations down were the orders of the day.
Wednesday 3rd January
The cows are due their annual Bravoxin top up by the middle of the month; I’ve ordered, or whatever is available this year.
Garden / Fluke and worm testing / Owl mittens
Monday 15 January, 2024
W/e Sunday 14th January
Not a whole lot happening. The weather has turned dry and cold, which is great and water levels in the fields are dropping.
The man we’re hoping will do the landscaping in the front garden came to see it on Friday and is preparing an estimate. These photos are as it is now; Dan and Murdo have burned all the brash and we can actually see the space better now. Feeling quite excited. And Dan’s ordered the sleepers for the retaining walls in the sunken garden.
Storm Isha / Fire and ice / Murphy
Monday 22 January, 2024
W/e Sunday 21st January
Once again, not much to diary.
The snow lasted until Saturday, then a thaw set in followed by rain. Sunday saw Storm Isha hit; I think we missed the worst of it. The plastic sheeting covering the b=veg beds relocated, but there’s no point putting them back on yet.
Dan and Murdo had more fires on Thursday, so now the old pig pen is clear and ready for planting, but that won’t be done until the autumn. Sunken garden and front garden are the focus for now.
Jocelyn / Hedge / Wheelbarrow
Monday 29 January, 2024
W/e Sunday 28th January
Storm Isha has been and gone and so has Storm Jocelyn. Thankfully, the only damage was the relocation on a sheet of black plastic from the vegetable garden to the door of the plant room.
Storm damage.
On Burns Night, we had a traditional meal of haggis, neeps and tatties. Even after all these years, I still get a buzz from wandering out into the garden and pulling fresh vegetables for dinner – in this case, a neep. It was very neepy.
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