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February calendar
A mainly dry and warm February with just one fall of snow early on. Still some leeks left, though they need lifting now before they bolt. The kale is also still going strong and throwing out very...
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weekly photo challenge: half-light
sunlight shafts over the Haute-Allier This weeks photo challenge is “Half-Light” and in this landscape the sunlight was flickering in and out of the cloud cover. This reminded me of the track...
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march calendar 2016
It’s always good to get the first veg started off in the new growing season and now we have beetroot sown and potatoes chitting. This year we are growing three different varieties of beetroot...
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weekly photo challenge: landscape
I’ve been playing around with the Nik filters collection which Google has now made available free. This original colour shot was adjusted using the black and white Silver Efex Pro 2 filters and is...
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bees and crocus
It’s been a lovely sunny day here today and the local bees have been all over our crocus plants. There isn’t much around the garden for them at the moment, just primroses and the crocuses, so they are...
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weekly photo challenge: seasons
This February has been the mildest and warmest we have known since moving here. Usually it can be very cold with periods of -5C to -9C overnight and sometimes much colder. A few days ago it was 20C...
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april calendar 2016
We have had snow showers, hail, heavy rain and temperatures up to 23C. So a bit of everything this April. Potatoes are planted (Belle de Fontenay and Sarpo Mira) with the trenches lined with our...
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May Calendar
I have been a bit neglectful in taking photos this month. We have been away on holiday and had visitors, therefore all these photos were actually taken on June 1st! All our fruit bushes are looking...
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Wildflowers of Grahy
For a few weeks in May and early June the roadside verges leading down to the village are ablaze with wildflowers before the first cut of the summer. I’ve tried to identify them all but some may be...
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June calendar
Sophie among the rocombales The first couple of weeks of June were very wet here and slowed down our progress in the garden but not our plants or the weeds! We are now experiencing a dry warm period...
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