what did we manage to get done

so this weekend we had a long list of tasks to tick off. how much of this did we manage to do?
Firstly, Saturday we did indeed manage to get to Middle Farm, Muffin’s been a few times and knew what to expect and was lookng forward to it. Boo had never been and was very [...]

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update for rach on boo’s tomato plants

excuse lighting & composition but i thin you get the idea, they’re growing – even the growth challenged one in the background that was planted at the same time as it’s two siblings in the foreground!

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It’s raining again!

grr i want to get out in the garden but i can’t.
 the jobs list for this weekend is growing….
clean the greenhouse including the glass (well what glass we have left after the winds!)
erect the shed acquired from the lovely Elly and Kevin on freecycle
plant out the peas that i sowed the first week of seed [...]

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lots is happening in the garden (and the dining room)

we had a very productive weekend with Tom getting lots of bits and pieces done but also with me, yogi and boo getting lots done…
 boo helped me plant the potatoes, earlies and 9 maincrop (the maincrop had chitted themselves in storage so we thought we’d give them a try as we had room for some [...]

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seedlings and other things

the girls have been having fun, proving that a new baby in the house isn’t necessarily going to change life…

Tom & Boo have been busy making all sorts of cookies and things

and Boo has been looking stylish, what i love is that nothing in the picture (apart from her shoes) was bought brand new, it [...]

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just over one week later (posted late)

well, yogi has now been with us 8 days. she’s lovely and she’s definitely not going back!

 in terms of birth stories i’m not going to go into great detail but i will say that it was a very quick labour which it’s taken us quite a bit of talking to get our heads round. not [...]

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