Due to the storm, the promised interview will be up tomorrow not today ( Read more... )

Just as our garden was wondering if it was spring or summer ... along comes the snow and a couple of woolly mammoths. Well, woolly lambs anyway. The snow's melted now but we're in the grip of Arctic winds and intermittent sleet. Which means a busy time for us ferrying lambs in and out of the building - they shiver outside in the sleet and get stir ( Read more... )

After losing our overwintering broccoli three years running to the minus eights and tens of unseasonably cold winters, we decided it was time to look for a new variety. So we consulted Messrs. Thomson & Morgan and found they had an ultra resistant variety that had been tempered on the glacier fields of Northern England and renowned for surviving ( Read more... )

The soft warm days of our Indian Summer have finally come to an end. A winter High has slipped in - as sneaky winter Highs are wont to do - and brought with it sharp cloudless days and frosty star-filled nights. If only my telescope still worked ( Read more... )

The weather continues to amaze and astound. It's late October and outside it's 22°C (72°F). And, inside, we've only lit the fire once this autumn. Which is unheard of. Normally we have four or five fires in September and by mid-October we're lighting the fire every night. But not this year. Even when we lived in the South of France we never had an ( Read more... )

The strange weather continues. Yesterday we picked ripe figs from our fig tree. In late October! Usually they're ready in August, or early September for us on the northerly fringes of figdom. But late October ( Read more... )