OK, it wasn’t all that deep, and as Al said: “It doesn’t even really count as a cut, in ground like this,” but it happened anyway, yesterday on the vernal equinox. And actually, from that point where he put the spade in for the pic, we need to dig down a further six feet, or [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Blue skies forever’
November 30, 2008
Beside the seaside…
That’s how it feels here sometimes, even though we’re actually 70 miles from the coast to both the east and the west. But the path through our field is a bit like a cliff path in places, and the traffic on the bypass in the valley tends to roar in a bit of a sealike [...]
October 28, 2008
Feeling down?
Then find a sunny autumn day with blue skies and go outside and clear some land.
Even if it didn’t need clearing Well, I don’t have that problem – mine certainly does, and clearing it is the best tonic in the world.
The weekend was a washout:
in which I only managed to shift one [...]
October 25, 2008
Deep bed 2
– plus me! Posing on my fork.
( I did do some work too I promise you, while Lyddie was busy with the camera..)
Actually, quite a LOT of work, when you consider that plot was completely overgrown just 2 days ago. Now it’s clear of couch grass roots and everything, [...]
October 7, 2008
Not much news, but a lot of pics
We’ve been plodding along, slowly shifting the pieces of collapsed shed and working on the vegetable beds – clearing them and emptying the compost bins onto them in time for spring. The latest grass seed around the willow tree isn’t sprouting – I think we might have sown that lot just too late in the [...]
