Displaying 11 to 20 of 216 results for John Lomax
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Land and fencing for sheep
Sheep are very tidy grazers and can make a significant contribution to the good management of grassland, but they need s…
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Our first honey
John extracting honey We are beginner beekeepers - John, my father-in-law, is the main man. We bought one complete hive a few months ago and they seem to be doing well.…
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Bitter
No, not me! Dan and John's home brew. It's from a kit - Woodforde's Wherry, I think, and it's ready - 40 pints of it. And it's lovely. The method of…
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Commuting
I've been up to Dalmore today, with Lorna, our daughter. She has special needs and will be going to a lovely day centre in Arbroath after she leaves school in June. She got to see…
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Getting in the last fruit trees
We had set ourselves a target of planting all the fruit trees by the end of March. This morning, all that remained of the 70 trees we bought were four pear, to be trained up the…
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Wood storage 2
Dan started boarding the end of the barn at the weekend. Looks pretty good and certainly breaks the wind. Barn boarding He and John have also been fencing (for a change…
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Fencing Five Acre Field
Dan, John and our friend, Steve, started the fence to divide the Five Acre Field yesterday. Steve was showing Dan and John how to do the strainers properly - I think they will…
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Snowy, the wanderer
Our White Leghorn, Snowy, has not quite grasped the concept of fences. All the other hens stay in the run, but Snowy gets out every morning and does her own thing. By afternoon,…
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The Bothy 8
The stonemason is working away on the front face of the Bothy, despite the soaring heat. Can you believe it's the end of September? Bothy stonework in progress The…
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Workies
Dan and Mark, and Ben, who's 15, were at Dalmore today helping John get the furniture out of storage. They fancy themselves as "workies" in the white van but they're more Crane…
