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Guinea in the fog. Singing into the gloom 🎵🎶🎵
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I spotted this carved oak court cupboard in the local auction & imagine my surprise when nobody wanted it so it is coming with me for £20.
#SmallBeauties
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RIP Toby. He did his best but at his age (I have had him for 14 years & don't know how old he was when he was gifted to me) he hadn't the will for the fight. He went downhill yesterday but still managed to eat a few dock leaves (his favourite). A lovely, friendly old chap.
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This beautiful, insistent, bird has been on my knee, fingers, phone, head & is now perched at my elbow. Do you think it wants something?
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There's always one. This was the fresh drinking water which he decided was nicer to lie in than his wallow. Doesn't he look smug? 🐷
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Pel has almost dried off from yesterday's deluge though she is not that keen on the gusty winds that have blown in behind the storm. Here she is contemplating the vagaries of an English summer. Sending best wishes to Emmanuel & to Atticus for a speedy recovery
@hiitaylorblake
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Anyone fancy a freshly-baked Maid of Honour? Traditionally baked for Beltane/May Day they are a shortcrust pastry case with (homemade) raspberry jam & a sponge topping. I am having mine with a mug of coffee as I shelter from the rain under a parasol 💦
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First light. Ice thick on the inside of the windows. Crow cawing. Clocks gently ticking as the cats reposition themselves for maximum warmth (not much of that in here this morning). A hot mug of tea & porridge on the stove. Wrapped in fingerless gloves & a hat as the fire is lit.
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Rose petal jam 🌹 Rose petals shaken/checked for insects then marinated in sugar & lemon juice for 24 hrs. Petals & marinade added to a sugar solution, brought to a boil & simmered for 25-30 mins before adding pectin & bottling in sterile jars. A taste of summer ready for winter
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Anyone fancy a slice of rhubarb & ginger cake? The rhubarb plants are still producing juicy stems & it would be a shame to waste them....
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Anyone fancy a slice of goosegog cake for elevenses? Made with homegrown London variety dessert gooseberries. A little rustic-looking but the best tasting things often are.
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It will soon be 3 years since I smeared
#mistletoe
berries on branches of the 20 year old apple trees. Yesterday afternoon I wandered round to see how they were getting on. Just look at those baby plants!
#SmallBeauties
A mild overcast day with a slight breeze. Perfect for climbing a ladder to install English mistletoe berries on apple trees in the
#orchard
. Fingers crossed that they germinate & don't get predated before they can take.
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Two tiny wild ducks abandoned by their mum when they couldn't keep up & crying in the orchard. I listened to them calling out all afternoon in the hope that she would return for them. No luck. As the sun is setting I have adopted them before they become crow or owl food
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A break in the rain. For the last half hour I have stood & watched a tiny wren collecting faded old foxglove leaves (tearing them from the stem) & darting them in through a hole at the top of the shed door. We may need an ark but he is busy nest building.
Linocut by Pam Grimmond
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Rhubarb & ginger cake baked for elevenses tomorrow. The first harvest of the Timperley Early rhubarb this year & gosh does it taste good. Had to try a slice just to check it passed muster. Mmmmmm.
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Lucy has been looking a little under the weather so I brought her inside for observation. It appears that she is a fan of the stove (lit to dry out some towels which she is now sitting on). Glad to see she is feeling a little better 🔥
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Pea, mint & two cheese flan. Homemade pastry, freshly harvested vegetables/herbs, curd cheese & cheddar. Served with homegrown potato salad.
#SlowFood
🍽
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A slice or two of blackcurrant cake for afternoon tea?
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On Sunday the emergency vet gave my most gentle
#emu
next to no chance of survival. He stitched the large bloody hole up in her neck/windpipe/esophagus as best he could (she was not a good patient even when sedated). She is very sore but still with us. Fingers crossed.
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Poor old Toby. An old wether he is prone to stumbling. Yesterday I noticed that I couldn't see him & he had fallen over out of sight behind the barn. Sadly the crows found him first & got at one of his eyes & his tongue. Pleased to say he is eating well despite his injuries.
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I have had this mulberry tree for years. It has never done very well but in the wet spring it put on a growth spurt. I just walked past it & something red caught my eye. Look! Mulberries! 🥰
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Can you tell that I hung the washing up to dry half an hour ago?
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This is Tolly Frimble, a Stock Dove with no eyes. I have known this young dove since it was a nestling (& kept falling out of the nest in the barn overhang). Healthy but blind flying isn't an option so T.F. lives with me, safe from crows. Gentle head scratches are very welcome 🩶
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I was just trying to fill the trug with clean water on a hot day but the emus all turned up demanding showers 💦
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Incubating
#emu
eggs: update. Incubation takes 55 days. The thick eggshell is opaque; there is no way to tell if the eggs are fertile. By day 40 if you talk the eggs (or sing to them 🎶) & the growing embryo hears you, the eggs may wobble. Today some eggs wobbled as I 🎶 to them!
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Look what I found lurking in the back of the cupboard! A tot of sour cherry vodka should warm the cockles on these cold damp nights. I shall also use the strained cherries in my Christmas cake. I do love a fruit infusion... 🍒🍷
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This is the face of an
#emu
who has just eaten the first pelletised food since her accident (& emergency throat reconstruction). She helped me do some weeding this afternoon & finished off her efforts with a good meal. What a miracle bird she is.
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Sick
#emu
is still with us 5 days after losing half of her throat. Her neck wound is looking OK considering. I will try to inject her with an antibiotic & pain-killer today which she won't like (the needles are huge). She is tired but rest is an important part of healing...
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Dorset apple cake (spiced with cinnamon). Made with freshly-picked James Grieve dual purpose (dessert & cooking) apples from the orchard.
🍏🍏🍏
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Thank you to the idiot that set off this Sky Lantern - 3 yards further to the left & the pigs would have eaten it, probably killing them. I am also thankful that it didn't land on & set fire to one of the barns. The sooner these things are banned, the better! 🔥
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Anyone for a slice of potato, rosemary & sea salt focaccia? Comes with a mixed leaf salad & raspberry viniagrette....
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The stove is drawing well as
#StormIsha
careers over the chimney. A night to drink tea & listen to the howling wind. Fingers crossed that everything including all the animals stay safe
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Sick
#emu
update. Lettuce for lunch (what you see is all she ate). It is sore for her as she has lost a big chunk of her esophagus but the good news is that she can eat (I was worried that she wouldn't be able to given her injury). Slow progress but getting better every day.
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Today's homemade fruit cake for elevenses is nectarine & crystallised ginger ☕️
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Tris - 6 months on from the accident that might have killed her. As you can see her neck is fully healed & her feathers have regrown though she has a crescent-shaped scar where her windpipe/throat was sewn back together. She is still the sweetest, most gentle
#emu
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Peacocks warming up in the sunshine. They perch on this pallet every morning as it is under a barn overhang so they can stay out of inclement weather & wait for breakfast.
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Another chilly night & Lucy is back by the stove. She is even happy to sit & watch while I feed more logs in. 🔥
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Sick
#emu
update. 9 days since her throat injury, Tris is doing fine. The stitches on her skin are healing well & I hope the internal ones are too. She is eating & drinking OK, albeit small amounts & slowly. The vet's response to her ongoing recovery is "Wow!"
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Is there anything sweeter than your own homegrown strawberries? Utter bliss 🍓🍓🍓
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Blackcurrant cake for elevenses today with canned blackcurrants from last year's harvest (bottled in their own juices, no sugar needed). Went down well with a mug of freshly-ground coffee
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This is the face of a wether who enjoys jumping stock fencing. 5 days in a row now I have escorted him back through the gate despite reinforcing the fencing daily where I thought he mighr have escaped.
Tonight he met his match: 5 emus in chasing mood.....
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Part of a serving dish found today on a bottle dump in Rutland. Gorgeous Victorian Minton 'aster' porcelain produced c. 1886 in the potteries at Stoke-upon-Trent. The cobalt blue flowers & the crackle glaze are charming.
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Look who I just found in the road! Never seen one here before but it has been a bit wet 💦 of late. Now safely moved away from vehicular danger. What a beauty 🥰
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Poor Ghost. He puts on his best display & all the Muscovy ducks do is yawn at him & wander off. 🦚
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Spiced crab apple jelly made from left over Red Sentinel crab apples after 2 months steeping in vodka (& a few cinnamon sticks) to make crab apple liqueur. The liqueur is so wonderful I shall scale up production next year:
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Woke at 2am to a wonderful thin crescent moon 🌙 & the Perseid meteor shower in a starry sky. Now busy making nectarine butter to preserve that gorgeous flavour for winter. In the garden the repeat roses are blooming again - a Whiter Shade of Pale looking glorious.
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Pork pie for lunch? Handmade in Uppingham by Culpin & Son, butchers. Should go nicely with a few radishes & various salad leaves from the polytunnel 🌱
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Here are the
#emu
chicks strengthening their legs by playing on the washable pet carpet. The youngest one (with the leg cuff) was born with spraddled legs but 12 hours with its legs tied together with wool, taped on to stop it slipping, seems to have worked. Aren't they sweet?
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Daily
#emu
. Goodbye daffodils!
The constant peeping is from last-born Jesse who 'talks' non-stop & is only silent when asleep.
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Multi-coloured mystery plums from one of the orchard trees. Small like damsons but plum sweet. Green going yellow with occasional purple fruit. I have no record of the variety but isn't it pretty? Lovely flavour. A few more still to pick then these will be gently cooked & bottled
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A cluster of stunning Bloodred Webcaps (Cortinarius sanguineus) discovered in a dark corner of Wakerley Great Wood on Friday. A beautiful find & somehow appropriate for
#Hallowtide
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The Black Worcester pear is in full blossom. It is humming with bees 🐝
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Martinmas Eve. Bed hat deployed to ward off the chill (perfect too for counting cerebral sheep). Hot water bottle topped up. Not sure it's quite cold enough for ice on the inside of the windows. Soon though ❄️
Night, night. Sweet dreams 💤
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'Tis crab apple season so that can mean only one thing.... crab apple liqueur with cinnamon. Just have to remove the stalks from these beauties & the elixir will be ready to warm the cockles in deepest, darkest midwinter ❄️ Recipe:
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Cyril, the beautiful Appenzeller Spitzhauben cockerel
@GilltheFisher
& some of his menagerie of rehomed rescue hens. All enjoying some early evening sunshine
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This butterfly has spent the last 6 months asleep high up on a wall above the stairs inside (it is not a warm house so ideal for hibernation). Today it decided spring has arrived & I found it warming itself on the floor. Now released & flying off for breakfast in the garden.
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RIP lovely Amos. A gentle nature & bandy legs he was a natural at gurning & will be sorely missed though he lived a long & happy life. His near-blind brother Blaze is now the last of my Jacobs.
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Magpie's five goslings having a brief rest after charging around strengthening their legs today & eating their body weight in pineapple weed.
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This is the story of an emu who went on an adventure. Yesterday evening, not long before dark as I was finishing off the baling, she took fright at the noise, leapt into the sheep pasture where she threw herself through a stock fence, ran down a hedge, over another fence & away..
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This is Blaze. He has cataracts in both eyes but knows his way around so it doesn't seem to trouble him. He calls to the other sheep to check where they are but finds the water trough, hay feeder & shelter without any issue. He can also still jump a hurdle at shearing time.
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Fresh bedding for all the animals to keep them warm on this, the coldest night of the year. Metal food bowls icing together already & the ground is frozen hard. If you happen hear snoring later it is this all-weather
#emu
snuggled down beneath her straw blanket, fast asleep. ❄️❄️
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This is 1 of 2 naughty emus who wouldn't go to bed as last night's thunderstorm raged. Female emus make booming noises & believe thunder is an emu rumbling at them so they stalk around as lightning flashes overhead booming back ⚡️ I got soaked. They went to bed once it moved away
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Late night, homemade rice pudding for inner warmth on a cool, wet night. Spiced with cardamon & garnished with toasted cashews & golden raisins
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Christmas Pearmain. If I could have only one apple variety this would be it; my favourite. A late dessert apple it is sweet, crisp & juicy producing a bountiful & reliable crop of flushed reddish brown & occasionally russeted fruits. The tree is much loved by roosting tawny owls
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I have had this
@ANGELACHARDING
advent calender squirreled away waiting patiently for December & its time to take centre stage in my morning ritual. Very excited to bring it out & open the first window. 🌟🎄
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Bit of a surprise this morning as some naughty hens had made a secret nest. Three hens (all claiming to be mum) & their 6 assorted chicks scooped up & moved to a shed now reallocated as a brooder. Better make some chick crumbs (crushed pellets) to tide them over til I get a sack.
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The grapes are ripe & ready to harvest. These are dessert grapes, some of which I will dehydrate to make raisins for this year's festive fruit cakes. 🍇
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Almond 'Ingrid'. My two 4 year old trees are heaving with nuts for the first time. The gorgeous pink blossom appears in mid February & the lack of severe early spring frosts has resulted in a bumper crop. Beyond excited.
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Winter-flowering cherry against the gorgeous blue sky. Sunny & cool. Sad news this morning that good neighbour is on life-support in hospital with sepsis. Praying for her recovery though current signs are not good. A miracle please.
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#Emu
egg update. For those people who wanted to see emu eggs wobble in response to me singing 🎶 & talking to them, here you go! If you look closely you will see them all move.
Some of them are now also hammering on the inside of the shell.🥚
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Update on the abandoned tree ducks left behind by their mum on 9 June (far left on this photo taken today). They are in fine fettle & have bonded with the 4 abandoned goslings & these younger muscovy ducklings which were born from abandoned eggs. All waifs & strays doing well!
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Embers glowing as the fire burns down in the grate. A gusty wind is howling down the chimney. Waves of heavy rain pound against the windows. I am very glad that I am inside & dry, drinking tea before turning in for the night.
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Sunset sky. A sad day - the death of a beloved, carrot-adoring goose. Given to us some years ago when people in a neighbouring village moved away & needed to leave her behind. She was an old girl but still very chatty. A fittingly beautiful end to the day to see her off. RIP 🌈
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Put some veg onto roast first thing - butternut squash, onions, a few garlic cloves, rosemary. Blitzed into soup for lunch with freshly-picked wild garlic leaves & thickened with flaked rice. Goes down well with leftover focaccia
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A 'cuddle' of 5
#emu
chicks! Slightly more active than yesterday but still sleeping a lot in between brief bursts of activity. Happily peeping to each other & to me 🎶
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Late dinner. Fresh soft-boiled eggs (collected from the hens today) mashed onto sourdough toast. Bliss
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RIP Tufty. A lovely old boy who enjoyed barging everyone out of the way of any food using his handle-bar horns.
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Shortbread & buttercream ghosts for Hallowe'en 🎃😱👻
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