Last night it was a bit of a toss-up as to which sunset photo you got to see first as it was such a glorious sky. I liked the one with that grey, smoky-looking cloud, but I liked the multi-layered look of this one too so hard luck, you get to see more than one!
We’ve [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Monday 30 June 2008
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Sunday 29 June 2008
Posted in Poetry by Me, farm, photography on 29 June 2008 | 3 Comments »
STAY WITH ME
A poem by Jackie Boyer
“Stay with me, I need you” she said
“I need your company and conversation.
I need you to help me with my tasks.
I just need you to be here.”
“I can’t” he said. “I have things to do.
Important things that cannot wait,
Things that are maybe as important as you,
Things I must [...]
Saturday 28 June 2008
Posted in farm, home, photography on 28 June 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday – silage-making. Today – silage-making. Tomorrow – last field for silage-making. Hooray!
This is Gordon in his tractor with the mower. He’s pretty good at this although yesterday he mowed enough (he said) to keep me going until 7.00 pm. It was all picked up by 5.00 pm, but it was practically hay by the [...]
Thursday 26 June 2008
Posted in farm on 26 June 2008 | 4 Comments »
Silage making today. All day. Nothing broke, nothing fell off, nothing seized up – the day was good.
This bomb shelter is in the field next to the fields I’ve been driving up and down. I presume it was there because of the factory next door, but you’d have thought by now someone might have demolished [...]
Wednesday 25 June 2008
Posted in cats, family, farm, home, shopping on 25 June 2008 | 7 Comments »
We had an early start this morning to make it over to Cheddar and pick up spares. Alex came with me for the ride and on the way home we stopped in Sanders Garden World to find a little statue for Jester’s grave. The one she chose is of a sleeping man and if I [...]
Tuesday 24 June 2008
Posted in cats, family, farm, home on 24 June 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We actually got to do some silage making today as the forager was repaired, but after picking up the field from last Friday and another Gordon cut today, the mower broke! It just seems we get one thing fixed and something else breaks. Back to Cheddar for more spares in the morning.
Whilst out in the [...]
Monday 23 June 2008
Posted in farm, garden, home, photography, shopping on 23 June 2008 | 2 Comments »
As you may notice, my title from now on will be the date. It makes it easier for me to keep track of what I’m about. Also, this entry is number 100 so a little fanfare for me!
This is a foxglove and it’s growing in my garden. Actually there are two of them, both of [...]
Sunday 22 June 2008
Posted in family, farm, friends, garden, home, shopping on 22 June 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is what’s happened to my flat-leaved parsley now it’s grown back. It’s gone to seed because I haven’t been using it. It was, of course, deer-pruned during the winter, but has made a great recovery.
After milking this morning and once I’d established there’d be no silage-making today I decided to go to a craft [...]
Glad to see the back of yesterday
Posted in family, farm, friends, home on 21 June 2008 | 5 Comments »
Apologies for my absence yesterday from the land of blog. It was a horrible day on the most part and one that I’m glad to see the back of.
It started well enough with silage-making in a field beside the motorway, which is OK if you don’t mind the odd honk from the passing vehicles. Depending on my [...]
Meet the forager
Posted in farm, home, photography on 19 June 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This heap of junk vintage agricultural machine is our forager. I thought I’d take its portrait whilst waiting for the return of an empty trailer so you could see what I’ve been sat in for the past couple of days. It’s old. I’d like to say old but reliable, but that would be stretching the truth [...]
