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Monthly Archives: July 2021
Pants
Last Thursday, the most amazing sound filled the evening air. Bells! I don’t think I’d realised how much I’d missed hearing them until they were ringing again. Thursday night is bell-ringing night at the parish church behind our house. Or, … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Wildlife
Tagged allotment produce show, bell ringing, bells, children, coffee, community, community cafe, community nursing, countryside, COVID-19, district nursing, fete, july, library, meadowsweet, nurse, nursing, pandemic, pants, rain, school holidays, summer, summer reading challenge, tansy
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Potatoes
Every window and door in the house is open as I type this. Is it hot with you? I got very red in the face digging up the last of my new potatoes at the allotment. There were rumours of … Continue reading
Posted in Family and friends, Growing things
Tagged allotment, blight, devon, district nurse, end-of-term present, grow your own, heat wave, new potatoes, NHS, school, sports day, summer fayre, teacher, vegetables
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Super powers
It has been very wet down our way. At the weekend we disturbed Meadow Browns from un-cut fields of hay, the butterflies still flying despite the showers. I suspect the farmers will be glad of the hot weather forecast to … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends
Tagged butterflies, careers, child development, children, computer programmer, family, first milk tooth, football player, hay, hay meadows, Iron Man, jobs, meadow browns, super hero, tennis player, tractor mechanic
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Good Farmers
Here’s the view from our camping pod, early on Sunday morning, nipping out to the loo. It was wonderful to be somewhere different and look out on rolling hills. It’s a fabulous farm, not far from us, where the sense … Continue reading
Posted in Countryside, Family and friends, Wildlife
Tagged camping, children, Chris Stringer, close contact, Covid, dairy farms, deforestation, degradation, devon, environment, erosion, family farms, farming, feedlots, food, Homo Britannicus, interglacial, isolation, kitchen, local economy, monocultures, parenting, pen feeding, pesticides, provenance, regenerative farming, slash and burn, small farms, soil health
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