November 2024
Beds / Bedding plants / Hedging
Monday 11 November, 2024
Sunday 3rd November
So we got home on yesterday after a lovely week in Gardenstown. The weather was kind – the only rain was on the Friday. It’s just a great wee place – made even better by the advent of a fish and chip van on a Thursday teatime. That was the only time our car turned a wheel between arriving and setting off for home.
Sadly, the pub was closed – it’s changing hands and there was some legal hold up – but Eli’s, the café, was open and just as good as we remembered. Next year, we’ll book a later week so we don’t have the dogs mixed up by the changing of the clocks and so we can go to the village bonfire – which, this year, was the day we left. Although, by the size of it, we thought we might be able to see it from Carnoustie. Apparently, it’s the time for the village annual clear-out of anything that will burn.
Frost / Weeding / Sitooterie
Sunday 17 November, 2024
Monday 11th November
Dan finished the preparation for the hedging plants and got the first bed planted up yesterday. I think it looks pretty good.
Final bed prepared forhedging.
He and Andy also split and stacked more wood. A session next weekend should see the backlog (pun intended) dealt with. The woodstore looks fair braw.
Sitooterie / Bert / Soup
Monday 25 November, 2024
Monday 18th November
It’s very cold. Dry and sunny but must be -2C and it hasn’t changed much all day. The outside taps thawed out about 4pm, long enough to let me fill the sheep’s water and the ponies’ trough in the barn. I had to use the spare drinker for the chooks this morning and both are now in the feed store overnight. My plans for weeding, of course, didn’t come to fruition. And won’t tomorrow, according to the forecast, so the plan is to prune the blackcurrants, gooseberries and blackberry.
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