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Archive of posts tagged weather

Rain + Pig = mud

Posted by Richard on 5 December 2020, 4:54 pm

On Friday morning we awoke to find a couple of inches of snow had fallen and settled too which was a slight surprise. It wasn’t quite cold enough for it to stay though and it rained occasionally for most of the day so everything turned first to mush then fairly quickly into mud For most …

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Summary of hay making 2019

Posted by Richard on 11 August 2019, 4:09 pm

At first I wasn’t sure that we’d made the right choice when I saw our neighbours had cut and baled their hay meadows early in July. However we wanted to wait a little longer so that the wild flowers could properly set seed before it was cut. There were a few occasions when I wished …

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A stormy 24 hours

Posted by Richard on 6 December 2015, 11:52 am

As luck would have it, a windy hill-top is a better bet than many other places when some stormy weather comes through. There has been some dramatic news coverage on the TV and the local newspaper website from places further to the west of us which puts everything into perspective. It turns out that I’ve …

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Trees and chainsaws – part 2

Posted by Richard on 28 December 2013, 7:57 pm

After the good work on the first fallen tree discussed in the previous post, it was time to get working on the second tree. All through the Christmas period it was more a case of “out of sight, out of mind” so the work could be ignored – plus it was not the sort of …

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Trees and chainsaws – part 1

Posted by Richard on 28 December 2013, 7:30 pm

A couple of trees came down in the stormy weather at the start of December and just before Christmas I eventually got around to making a start on them. This post is a belated look back at that work now that life is returning to something like normal. I’m no tree expert but as far …

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Weather watching

Posted by Richard on 31 October 2013, 10:45 am

According to the BBC Weather page for our area this morning, it looks like we may be getting the first sub-zero temperatures at night this coming weekend! We’ve particularly enjoyed watching the onset of autumn with the associated array of colours but we can’t ignore this sign that winter is coming. Even after 5 months, …

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Assessing the first week

Posted by Richard on 8 June 2013, 7:58 am

Now that we’ve reached the end of our first week here it makes sense to take stock of our (limited) progress so far. There are many things we’d like to do at some point in the future but we can only do a few at a time if we’re going to do them well. Chickens …

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Weather woes… again!

Posted by Richard on 6 August 2012, 4:42 pm

After the noticeable improvement in the weather over recent days/weeks I had thought and hoped that we had finally made it to summer but it appears that I was wrong. Yesterday (Sunday) we had yet another torrential downpour which led to more temporary flooding at the bottom end of the garden. This was not as extensive as …

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Another chaotic week or two…

Posted by Richard on 4 July 2012, 8:34 pm

Just lately things have been overtaken by the preparations for the recent wedding for No.2 daughter so the blog has suffered quite a bit. This situation was not helped by a crashed disk drive with lots of fairly important data which has now proved to be unrecoverable (hardware failure). On top of all that we …

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