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Friday 25th February 2022 - Last Few Days and Loading Pots
February has to be my least favourite month of the year, so I am glad there are just a few days left now before we slip into March. ...
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Overstrand Life
Jan 24, 20221 min read
Sunday 23rd January 2022 - Apple Tree and Snowdrops
I have been watching YouTube again. This time I was looking for advice on how to prune apple trees. We have a russet apple which, most...
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Jan 16, 20222 min read
Saturday 15th January 2022 - Pruning, Accomplishments and Basking Foxes
There are some things I have difficulty in understanding the concepts; pruning is one. I have listened to talks at the Gardening Club...
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Jan 4, 20223 min read
Monday 3rd January 2022 - Fireworks, Defacing and Looking to Spring
Well here we are in 2022 and another year, Covid wise, of uncertainty. We just have to wait and see how things pan out. The village was...
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Dec 6, 20212 min read
Sunday 5th December 2021 - Making a Start, Private Dining and Itching
On Wednesday, I made a start on 2022’s vegetables by sowing onion seeds in a pot. Since we started growing from seed, we have had some...
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Dec 2, 20212 min read
Wednesday 1st December 2021 - Reaction and Angleshades
We have been fortunate, others haven’t, not to have reactions to flu vaccinations and more recently, to the two for Covid 19. That was...
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Nov 4, 20213 min read
Wednesday 3rd November 2021 - Paganism and Autumn Wildlife
Life is full of new encounters and a continuous learning experience, or at least it should be. We watched a TV programme, Scotland’s...
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Oct 31, 20212 min read
Saturday 30th October 2021 - Tofu, Another Butt and Poppy Appeal
The tofu experiment worked fine but we decided the vegetables in the recipe were unnecessary. The tofu, vegetable curry sauce and rice...
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Oct 8, 20212 min read
Thursday 7th October 2021 - Reds
The colour red signifies different things to different people. At this time of the year, as we approach the British Legion’s Poppy...
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Sep 30, 20212 min read
Wednesday 29th September 2021 - Empty Cylinder, Pink Foots and Our Garden
Following on from my last blog, our Saturday evening BBQ may well have been our last – the gas ran out. As cooking progressed, the...
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Sep 22, 20212 min read
Tuesday 21st September 2021 - Further into Autumn and Vapour Trails
As we move further into autumn we are seeing changes in the garden. The flowers are putting up their last flush of flowers, the fig tree...
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Aug 24, 20212 min read
Monday 23rd August 2021 - Where Next? and Courgette Fritters
Although there was a great sense of relief when the application, to put a 5g mast on the corner of Cromer Road with Pauls Lane, was...
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Aug 20, 20212 min read
Thursday 19th August 2021 - More About Beans
What would we do without beans? Such a diverse vegetable which, depending on the type, are eaten whole (pod and beans), or just the...
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Aug 4, 20212 min read
Tuesday 3rd August 2021 - Almost a Washout and Changing
On Sunday morning, I wondered whether the village fair might have to be cancelled. Rain had made the ground wet and soft. Given the...
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Jul 23, 20212 min read
Thursday 22nd July 2021 - Battles
Gardening can, what seems to be, a constant stream of battles against pests and diseases that threaten our produce and flowers. Whitefly...
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Jul 3, 20212 min read
Friday 2nd July 2021 - What a Week, Spanish and Algae Bloom
Up until today, what an awful week it has been. The forecasts have been far from correct and throughout, the predictions have changed...
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Jun 29, 20212 min read
Monday 28th June 2021 - Cones Again, Village Events and the Battle Continues
Since writing my last blog, the Parish Council have put up notices at the three places where they have placed traffic cones. In brief,...
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Jun 25, 20212 min read
Thursday 24th June 2021 - Cones and Buzzing
Staycation is a relatively new word, used for holidays taken in your homeland which for us is the UK. Last year, with Covid restrictions...
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Jun 21, 20212 min read
Sunday 20th June 2021 - Tails Off, Really are a Pain and How Many Years Ago?
Compensation for the grotty weather on Friday came in the form of seeing a tiny frog in our pond. Tadpole tails were obviously being...
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Jun 17, 20212 min read
Wednesday 16th June 2021 - Postponement, Bees, Tadpoles and Ox Eyes
The rumoured continuance of the Covid restrictions was confirmed by Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, on Monday. The current restrictions...
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