Displaying 151 to 160 of 216 results for John Lomax
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Buster / Landscaping / Wildlife area
Monday 31st January Can’t believe it’s the end of January already. Winter has been remarkably kind this year so far – let’s hope we don’t pay for…
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Inverness / Diary / Dawn
So, it’s Thursday and I haven’t written anything in my diary for this week, but here goes. Monday 30th September This is easy, because we drove to Newtonmore to…
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Orchard planning
Since it was raining today and Dan's tweaked his back, it seemed a good use of time to sit down and look again at the plans for the orchard. We do try to spend time on…
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New pen for meat birds
We’ve raised a couple of batches of meat chickens every year for a few years now. We usually buy two batches of 10 or 12 birds, one in April and one in August. This pretty…
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Planting and planning
Well, it’s starting to feel like spring might be on the way. It’s been pretty dry and we’ve had a couple of really nice sunny days. However, we’ve also had…
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Brownies / Cider / AGMs
Monday 10 September Windy with sunny showers, Still warm. Started to pickle shallots, process apples and roast tomatoes The calves pushed through a poor bit of fence…
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More homes for cows
When we bought our first two weaned calves in autumn 2010, we housed them in the old byre. It’s fine for two beasts, but I wouldn’t want to put any more than two in…
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Trampoline / Pigs / Vegetables
Monday 25 June The good weather continues. The grass in the fields has stopped growing though. Still, it’s long enough to hide two calves. Spot the calves. I thought…
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Farm walks / Camembarry / Honey
Monday 6 August John topped two paddocks this morning – mainly to take off the thistle flowers. Some of these were quite short and he had to cut a bit lower than I would…
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Rhubarb / Roo / Ace
Monday 15th March March 15th is the day the Rural Payments Single Application Form (SAF) opens to farmers. I was tempted to stay up last night until midnight plus 1 minute…
