tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85809186259546846602024-02-07T05:21:49.517+00:00Great Slamseys Farm DiaryAnne Wheatonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16936340776230192967noreply@blogger.comBlogger148125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580918625954684660.post-28556126237846596282013-03-15T12:06:00.002+00:002018-08-18T13:57:14.583+01:00this blog has moved<a href="http://www.greatslamseys.co.uk/farm-diary/"></a><br />
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This blog has moved. You can find out about the farm on the <a href="http://www.slamseys.co.uk/" target="_blank">Slamseys website</a> or read the new blog <a href="http://www.slamseysjournal.co.uk/" target="_blank">Slamseys Journal</a>.<br />
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See you there.Anne Wheatonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16936340776230192967noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580918625954684660.post-31601949431329514352012-11-26T13:42:00.000+00:002012-11-26T13:42:15.002+00:00this blog is moving<br />
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This blog is moving as the farm diary has now been incorporated into our fab new <a href="http://www.greatslamseys.co.uk/" target="_blank">website</a>.<br />
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<br />Anne Wheatonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16936340776230192967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580918625954684660.post-83816345190531375472012-10-11T16:56:00.001+01:002012-10-11T16:56:51.874+01:00murmuration of starlings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Stepping outside the back door this afternoon I was hit by the sound of a murmuration of starlings in the trees by the pond. They were so noisy that the guinea fowl just stood dumbstruck.<br />
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The break in the wet weather gave us a chance to get the wheat drilled this morning. It's been a bit stop, go for drilling this year.Anne Wheatonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16936340776230192967noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580918625954684660.post-5740706495684283492012-10-04T11:10:00.002+01:002012-10-04T11:10:13.099+01:00oilseed rape crop<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The ground is too wet to drill wheat this week, but the oilseed rape crop is growing well in The Ley. The crop is proving a little too tempting for the pigeons in the top corner of the field and the rabbits from the Country Park are enjoying a small patch at the other end of the field. But apart from that, it's looking good. At the moment.Anne Wheatonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16936340776230192967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580918625954684660.post-37164119441344153872012-10-02T09:34:00.001+01:002012-10-02T09:35:32.439+01:00drilling wheat<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A dry weekend and the chance to drill (or sow) some wheat in Far Blackley. Much cooler and damper than <a href="http://greatslamseys.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/drilling-wheat.html" target="_blank">last year</a>. <br />
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Our first Christmas tree has been cut, netted and collected. Goodness, I thought Christmas was ages away.Anne Wheatonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16936340776230192967noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580918625954684660.post-83824875906370975632012-09-12T15:57:00.000+01:002012-10-02T09:37:11.503+01:00autumn cultivationsThe sun is shining, but the air is cooler and summer coming to a close. The oilseed rape has been drilled and the plants are emerging so we're on the watch for pigeons that swoop in to feast on the young green plants. In the other fields, the golden yellow of the stubble has given way to brown as the soil is prepared for the next wheat crop.<br />
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Over the past few days, Lakes Field has been ploughed<br />
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Little Forest has been cultivated<br />
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Great Forest is rolled to break down the clods.Anne Wheatonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16936340776230192967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580918625954684660.post-61441367097523581262012-08-21T16:33:00.000+01:002012-08-21T19:11:25.352+01:00ducks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We're missing a duck. Not lost, but savaged by a dog that ran into the yard. Someone from the stables found the duck floating limply in the water, its tail end raw and half chewed and the dog nearby trying to get at it again. The dog had no collar or means of identification so someone slipped a leading rope around it while we tried to contact the dog warden (as I certainly didn't want the dog on the farm) and Bill put the duck out of its agony. A few minutes later a man arrived on the farm searching for his dog. He was shown the duck. He offered money. We declined. He took the dog away using the leading rope because he didn't have a lead. A few days later an envelope arrived in the post. Inside was the leading rope and a latex glove. No note. Bizarre. By coincidence, the next day a friend had a chicken massacred in his yard by a dog that the owner didn't have on a lead. Not pleasant.<br />
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The <a href="http://greatslamseys.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/sitting-duck.html" target="_blank">last duck that sat on her egg</a>s abandoned them shortly after I wrote about it. Now there is another duck sitting - The little brown duck has been sitting tight on her nest. The other ducks leave the run... <a href="http://annewheaton.co.uk/2012/08/20/a-sitting-duck/" target="_blank">read more</a><br />
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The oilseed rape in Gardeners Field has been combined and the ground has been cultivated.<br />
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The wheat growing in The Ley (next door to Great Notley Country Park) has been combined.<br />
Now we have to wait for the rest of the wheat to ripen. <br />
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Walking along the bridleway in the mornings the mist has been hanging above the fields the past couple of mornings.<br />
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In Great Forest field, the oilseed rape has been cut and safely carted to the barn leaving fields of stubble.<br />
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Wheat in Grove Field - almost ready to combine.<br />
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<br />Anne Wheatonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16936340776230192967noreply@blogger.com0Great Slamseys Farm, Great Notley, Braintree, Essex CM77, UK51.8511311 0.52234851.841322100000006 0.502607 51.8609401 0.542089tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580918625954684660.post-34795670768190696022012-08-03T20:57:00.002+01:002012-10-02T09:40:07.442+01:00harvest 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Harvest has started at last. This is the combine cutting oilseed rape in Far Blackley field.<br />
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A happy tractor driver waiting for the next load of oilseed rape to go into the trailer.<br />
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The view through the back window of the tractor as it drives alongside the combine and the oilseed rape is emptied from the combine into the trailer.<br />
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Now that the hay bales have been carted away from the field (to be used as horse feed), we can see what's been lurking in the long grass, including lots of little frogs like this one. <br />
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The muck and straw removed from the stables is heaped up ready to be spread in the autumn. Over the last few days spiders have covered the top with cobwebs,<br />
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even building a bridge between the two peaks.<br />
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In Grove field the wheat is changing colour.<br />
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The grass in Little Forest was cut on Saturday. Here you can see the wonderfully named mower going through the crop.<br />
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With cutters on the front and back, it makes a wide cut through the long grass.<br />
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The green grass lays spread out across the field, left to dry in the sun.<br />
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The grass is turned a couple of times, bringing the wet grass underneath to the top and spreading it out . The sun shines and the grass dries out to become hay. By Wednesday the grass had dried out - you can see how it's changed from grass green to much lighter green - and the hay put into rows.<br />
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As soon as the hay has been rowed up, the tractor and baler come in and drive along the rows. The baler picks up the hay, compresses it into a bale, ties it up and shoots the bale out the back.<br />
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By the end of the day we have a few fields of hay bales, ready to cart away.<br />
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There's a bit of film here showing the rowing up and baling - it's not very good quality because we have such a slow broadband connection that it takes hours to upload anything of higher definition and my camerawork is a bit jumpy. <br />
<br />Anne Wheatonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16936340776230192967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580918625954684660.post-74589767430265466132012-07-18T13:32:00.001+01:002012-07-19T10:56:17.453+01:00July weather<br />
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We could do with some sunshine and warmth to ripen the crops; the current prediction is for harvest to be at least a week later than normal.</div>
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The oilseed rape was desiccated earlier this week to stop it growing and help even up maturity across the crop ...</div>
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Goodwrights Livery have taken over the running of the livery yard at the farm. Not only do they look very professional in their new shirts, but they've been busy painting the stables and tack room so that the livery yard is looking as smart as they do. It's good to see horses grazing in the paddocks again, though there's so much grass at the moment that they can't keep up. There are still a couple of stables available on the yard, so if you're looking for a livery yard for your horse, <a href="http://greatslamseys.co.uk/contact.php" target="_blank">contact us</a> and we'll pass your details on to Goodwrights Livery.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">You can see how our oilseed rape plants have grown over the last few months. The plants now stand nearly five foot high, the yellow flowers have died off and the seeds in the pods are beginning to develop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Although we call this field the Pig Paddock, there aren't pigs in here all the time so I
think we should rename it Home Pasture as this was one of the names given to
this field in the nineteenth century and it’s roughly the area that the
original farmhouse is believed to have stood. In this corner we have ox-eye daisies
that have crept from the verge alongside the chase.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">At the other end of the field, Beth has planted raspberries to
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">planting blackthorn February 2012</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The blackthorn hedge that was planted earlier this year will separate the pigs from the raspberries
and as well as forming a stockproof barrier, the sloes (which are the fruit of
the blackthorn) will be picked for sloe gin. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Beth Wheaton has developed and produced the fruit gins and we're very excited to have a new venture on the farm. So far Slamseys Drinks has bottled Raspberry Gin and Blackberry Gin, with Sloe Gin due to be bottled later this month. Although some of the
raspberries had to be picked elsewhere last year, all the sloes and
blackberries were picked from the hedgerows on the farm and the fruit then
steeped in London Gin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">If you’re interested in buying some of this delicious
gin, Slamseys Drinks will be selling at the Tendring Show and also Great Garnetts Farmers Market on 14th July. They'll also be at the Essex Food & Drink Festival at Cressing Temple on 21st and 22nd July.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Find out more on the Slamseys Drinks <a href="http://www.facebook.com/SlamseysDrinks" target="_blank">Facebook</a> page.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>Anne Wheatonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16936340776230192967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580918625954684660.post-47735143334539714072012-06-19T14:21:00.000+01:002012-10-02T09:38:09.021+01:00Open Farm SundayWe had great fun at Cressing Lodge Farm, Braintree at Open Farm Sunday when almost four hundred people came along to find out what happens on a farm.<br />
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New things to look at ...<br />
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... that we made into bread.<br />
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And the sun shone the whole day.<br />
<br />Anne Wheatonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16936340776230192967noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580918625954684660.post-13777875537109176962012-06-19T13:52:00.001+01:002012-06-19T15:18:32.584+01:00A livery yard on the farm?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Like many farmers, we started our Livery Yard because we
had grass paddocks that were too small for growing arable crops and a building
that was no use for modern agricultural needs. Maybe you’re in the same
position and have decided to put in a few stables but aren’t sure where to
begin. If you don’t like horses and you don’t want people in your yard, then
you probably don’t need to go any further but I enjoy seeing horses in the fields
and the farm yard has a good buzz when there are people in and around the
stables. Having a Livery Yard is a good thing for our farm.</div>
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Although DIY liveries would have brought in more money, when we started we
didn’t have enough room to store their feed and tack in individual secure units
and as my knowledge of horses is limited we thought it better to find someone
to rent the stables and operate as a Livery yard. We accepted that we wouldn’t have any say in
their customers (though that hasn’t been a problem for us) and left them to
find and look after the liveries (some full and some part), collect the money
and pay us rent for the whole yard. </div>
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Before you start, agree the
responsibilities of each side ie who will empty the muck heap? Other questions
might include will you retain control of turnout in the winter? Do you need a
safe route through the yard for horses? Are dogs allowed? What hours can people use the yard?(Your
planning permission may restrict these anyway – initially our local council
wanted to limit access to Monday to Saturday until we pointed out that horses
need feeding and caring for seven days a week.) Do you mind if people wander
anywhere and ride along farm tracks or should you apply restrictions? Get an
Agreement drafted and signed.</div>
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We set our price by working out a commercial rent for
the building plus a grazing cost and when we added facilities we knew how much
return we wanted on our capital, so it was easy to calculate the rent increase.
Ah, I haven’t mentioned the extra facilities have I? Well, no matter what you
provide, it will never be enough. We started with five stables but our Livery
Yard Operator was soon asking for more stables, then a sand school with
floodlighting, more stables, a larger tack room, horse walker …</div>
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All these extra facilities need paying for and when there’s
plenty of grass, hay is cheap to buy and there’s no recession, the finances are
OK. But a rise in feed price, difficulty replacing liveries who leave or the Livery
Yard Operator filling the stables with their own horses instead of paying
liveries can lead to financial crisis. It’s easy to give the Livery Yard
Operator a month’s grace to pay – after all, if they leave you’ll probably have
at least a month’s void anyway – but soon it will be two month’s rent owed and
then three ... Make sure your agreement has a clause regarding non payment and
stick to it. When our Livery Yard Operator got into arrears as he struggled to
fill the stables, we gave rent-free months and charged half the rent for nearly
a year before returning to full rent when the stables filled up. Despite this, the
outstanding debt remained unpaid and when he left he told people it was because
we’d doubled the rent. Remember it’s a business and if it doesn’t pay, it has
to end. There’ll always be another person to take on the yard.</div>
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When your Livery Yard Operator moves out, agree with them
what should be left; we once discovered that all our electric fencing and the
fixings from the tack room had been sold off, which was a bit of a surprise. We
prefer all the liveries to leave the yard when our Agreement with Livery Yard Operator ends, though this isn’t
popular with them. Our last Livery Yard Operator has just moved out; he put a
skip in the yard and cleared out all the broken barrows, buckets and other
things that gradually build up in hidden corners and cleaned up. When the new
Operator starts next month it means they will come into a fresh yard not
cluttered with someone else’s rubbish and can choose their own liveries on
their own terms.</div>
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We’ve scaled back our stables a lot so that the yard will
just have six stables, with a horse walker and sand school to themselves, but
when the financial climate bucks up, we plan to install more stables in a
purpose built yard. It's certainly been very quiet around here for the past few weeks without any horses or people in the yard and I'm looking forward to their return.<br />
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Did you know that as little as
two hours spent on a farm can benefit a person’s wellbeing and help them
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Sunday <span lang="EN-US">17 June 2012 will be the seventh Open Farm
Sunday and hundreds of farms across the country are expected to open. </span>Every year a farmer in the Notleys has taken
part in Open Farm Sunday with neighbouring farmers going along to help and this
year Nick & Bridie Cousins will be opening their Cressing Lodge Farm
to all. Nick says “People always seem interested in what we do, for example if
we are happy <span class="textexposedshow">with the weather at the moment, and
has the rain affected our crops, so I thought that opening up the farm for
everyone to come and see what we do would be a great idea.” </span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow">Activities will include trailer
rides and guided tours to see the crops and the farm machinery. There’ll be
cookery demonstrations to show how farm produce is turned into food, children’s
activities, pictures of farming through the ages and light refreshments in the
old barn. The event is free and runs from 11am to 4 pm. Cressing Lodge Farm is
located just off Galley’s Roundabout in Braintree.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US">*Centre for Environment and
Society, Department of Biological Sciences - University of Essex 2008</span></span></div>
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During the 1980s and 90s we grew strawberries, raspberries
and other soft fruit here at Great Slamseys but then the Great Leighs by-pass
was built through the middle of the fruit field and we had to close the Pick Your Own fruit business. The
affected fields were too small for arable crops so we put them down to grass and
built five stables in one of the barns, which we let out to someone wanting to
run a livery yard.<br />
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Over the years Notley Livery has changed hands and the
facilities have expanded to include more stables and grazing, a tack room and
feed store, menege and horse walker. But recently, the ever increasing price of feed combined with the general
economic uncertainty has meant that some riders have sold their horse or
decided that full livery is too expensive which means the livery yard has been forced to
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The horses are gradually being moved away and it seems sensible to reduce the number of stables for a
while and return to the days of a
small yard and a few horses out in the fields. So, from June we'll have six stables to let out, but are hoping that things will pick up
over the next few months and eventually we can reinstate all the stables.<br />
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Meanwhile, every time I drive up the chase there are fewer
horses in the fields alongside, which is rather sad.</div>Anne Wheatonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16936340776230192967noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580918625954684660.post-42764143001784761362012-05-18T13:44:00.000+01:002012-05-18T13:44:43.727+01:00Sitting Duck<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Despite the change in weather from hot and sunny through to cold and wet, the ducks have been laying plenty of eggs this spring. There haven't been so many to collect this week as one of the ducks has gone broody and decided to sit on her eggs. The other ducks lay on straw in the shelter, but this duck has chosed to wedge herself between the wall and the back of the shelter to make her nest. Ducks are notoriously bad mothers so I'm not sure how many (if any) ducklings will survive. The last duck to hatch any eggs decided that she only liked black ducklings and killed all the yellow ducklings as soon as they emerged from the eggs.<br />
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On the fields, the recent dry(ish) spell has given us a chance to spread some fertiliser on the wheat and spray the oilseed rape.<br />
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The pond in Great Forest on 10th April</div>
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The pond in Great forest on 30th April 2012</div>
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We've had 70mm in a good, steady rain over the last few days. The land drains are feeding water into ditches that have been dry for months and the ponds are filling.</div>Anne Wheatonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16936340776230192967noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580918625954684660.post-1948529139980336142012-04-24T07:00:00.000+01:002012-04-24T07:00:07.799+01:00Tidying the yard<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We've been doing a bit of clearing and tidying around the yard. <br />
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While the ditches are dry, the scrubby growth and brambles are being cut down and pulled out.<br />
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What an improvement.Anne Wheatonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16936340776230192967noreply@blogger.com1