Category: Garden
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2021 – June
After the miserable weather in May the sun finally came out to play. And finally time for the long planned revamp of the outbuilding we call ‘the barn’ (A bit grandiose, but not sure what else to call this large structure) This was a major undertaking, and involved us bringing in a foreign worker from […]
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2021 – February
Brrr! It’s been chilly this month. The first half of February the temperature hardly rose above zero. But we did finally get some snow! (We seem to just get frosts here mostly) and it hung around for a while. This gave us a chance to do a little more indoors work, hanging the sliding doors […]
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2021 – January
January had its fair share of cold days this year. Although we escaped the snow this month, there were a lot of frosty days. Down to -5 in the polytunnel, so it must have been much colder outside. So it was a month with a tendency towards hibernation, and catching up on Christmas presents. Towards […]
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2020 – December
Another quiet month here. Not too much happening in the garden, as the weather was quite frosty and there was Christmas to look forward to. I did make a start on pruning the fruit bushes though. And Helen helped me replace the arch which had fallen when the main support tree died and most of […]
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2020 – November
All quiet here this month, with a second lockdown in place we had no visitors again. We did take ourselves out for breezy walks along the seafront. It began to look very autumnal, lots of misty mornings and plenty of fungi appearing Time to start putting the garden in order for Winter. Fuchsias and other […]
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2020 – Aerial shot
We are fortunate that a local photographer (https://www.davidjgilyeatphotography.co.uk/) has a drone, and took some pictures of our house. Here’s the best one showing the main cultivated area between the lane and the caravan site. I’ve also included a cropped version with the main areas labelled. Clicking on either will bring up a larger version of […]
