...life on an island with 549 people (as of the 2022 Census) in the middle of the North Sea...
Tuesday, 25 October 2005
Sunrise on a cloudy day
Friday, 21 October 2005
Left to right: Spring onions (small, you have to look hard to see them), beetroot, carrots, swede, and cabbage (not worth mentioning really as the slugs keep eating it...)
Domino's doesn't deliver up here, but that's okay because Greg's pizza's are so much better!
I thinned the raised beds last weekend and these are some of the carrots and spring onions (scallions) that I thinned. Unfortunately I failed to put anything in this photo to give you a sense of scale, but let's just say that after I'd trimmed them, I had about two spoonfuls worth of salad!
Wednesday, 12 October 2005
Hens only laid one egg yesterday, so I was going to have a very small breakfast, but there was another egg waiting for me when I went out this morning -- although rather misshapen. Of course, now I am worried that this will be today's only egg and I won't have any breakfast tomorrow... :(
Despite the heavy rain, the spiderwebs on my car are still there! :)
It rained most of yesterday and most of last night and is supposed to continue raining most of today. This is ordinarily a little stream -- the cats perch on the rock in the middle (now covered by water) and drink...
Not only do we have baby chicks, we also have baby spider plants! There are 33 baby spider plants, and the five pots at the front right that look empty have basil seeds in. Anybody want a spider plant? What do we do with them all???
Was just looking at some (old) photos and am amazed when you look at them side by side how much the little chickies have grown in just under four weeks...
They look just like little chickens!
Got home from dosbarth Cymraeg to find that one of my chicks was standing on the rim of the cardboard box!!! So they have now moved into their new outdoors home... :)
They are starting to get little black feathers around their necks like Mommy! :)
Chicks will be four weeks old tomorrow!
The chickens are moulting now and Big Boy has lost all his tail feathers and looks rather pathetic I think...
Wednesday, 5 October 2005
Magic -- have just had the fields topped!
This is the pile of soil that I moved from Point A to Point B yesterday...