Sometimes it seems to have been much longer but the latest batch of pigs have been with us for almost a month now. In fact they’ve just turned 3 months old and are settling in very nicely. Their home in the original pig pen has held up fairly well despite their best efforts to trash the …
An update on the chickens is long overdue and particularly relevant now that spring is arriving in the North Pennines. This last winter has been a real eye-opener because both flocks of chickens went through a fairly drastic moult. We hadn’t seen that at all during the first winter here so it was a bit …
I’m constantly reminding myself of the good fortune in having a selection of fairly good outbuildings at my disposal. They’re generally weatherproof most of the time with power and light available so they’re perfectly usable for my needs. The problem I’ve had is that the original potting shed had collected more and more junk since we …
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Last weekend saw some long-overdue clearing up of the raised beds and perhaps not a moment too soon as the current long-term weather forecast seems to show there will be no late spring cold snap this year. After some minor setbacks last spring with plants being slow to get started due to the usual over-eagerness to …
Saturday morning shopping is not normally one of my favourite pursuits and I’m not normally eager to set off on such trips. However yesterday was different with an eager, early start preparing our slightly underused trailer for a trip to the northern end of Northumberland to collect our new pigs. The accommodation had been sorted …