halfway
One week down, one to go out here on a remote island.
The cold has gone as quick as it came and hopefully the last one for the rest of winter.
The weather has been reasonably fine, but I guess that's the same back on dry land too...
Another week and then four weeks off work - in the middle there is The Whitby Goth Weekend. I missed the spring one and as autumn and winter fall upon us, 2010 seems to have been a 'fast' year as time marches on.
When back home, fencing and hedging to crack on with down at the meadow and the start of a reasonable sized tree-planting scheme to get on with.
In the summer, I mowed early to reduce weed seed distribution in the field - this took down quite an area of Meadowsweet Filipendula ulmaria - As a perenial, it's started to come back reasonably well and I'm a little surprised that it fetches £2.50 to £6.50 a plant +p&p on Ebay and from conventional and specialist nurseries.
Historically a 'strewing herb' and additive to mead and mediæval brews and even reputedly revered by The Druids as well as being the original basis for Aspirin - I think I'll be thinning it out of the grassland slightly, potting it up or into nursery beds and seeing if interested parties want up to several hundred sustainably grown plants...
Of native / wild plants and meadows - the Flora Locale website is rather interesting and informative.
A few more music based evenings to sort out for nights out and more than likely forays into Oxfordshire and Wiltshire again too. (walking, fine food, historic and scenic places and interesting nightlife to shortlist).
When I was in Bristol, I explored the options of grey squirrel to eat - I quite like rabbit and it's supposedly similar.
Apparently they need 48 hour notice to obtain it, although if I was a vengeful person I'd have sorted the one back home by now that had 200 odd walnuts off the tree in the garden...
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The cold has gone as quick as it came and hopefully the last one for the rest of winter.
The weather has been reasonably fine, but I guess that's the same back on dry land too...
Another week and then four weeks off work - in the middle there is The Whitby Goth Weekend. I missed the spring one and as autumn and winter fall upon us, 2010 seems to have been a 'fast' year as time marches on.
When back home, fencing and hedging to crack on with down at the meadow and the start of a reasonable sized tree-planting scheme to get on with.
In the summer, I mowed early to reduce weed seed distribution in the field - this took down quite an area of Meadowsweet Filipendula ulmaria - As a perenial, it's started to come back reasonably well and I'm a little surprised that it fetches £2.50 to £6.50 a plant +p&p on Ebay and from conventional and specialist nurseries.
Historically a 'strewing herb' and additive to mead and mediæval brews and even reputedly revered by The Druids as well as being the original basis for Aspirin - I think I'll be thinning it out of the grassland slightly, potting it up or into nursery beds and seeing if interested parties want up to several hundred sustainably grown plants...
Of native / wild plants and meadows - the Flora Locale website is rather interesting and informative.
A few more music based evenings to sort out for nights out and more than likely forays into Oxfordshire and Wiltshire again too. (walking, fine food, historic and scenic places and interesting nightlife to shortlist).
When I was in Bristol, I explored the options of grey squirrel to eat - I quite like rabbit and it's supposedly similar.
Apparently they need 48 hour notice to obtain it, although if I was a vengeful person I'd have sorted the one back home by now that had 200 odd walnuts off the tree in the garden...
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