Stuck inside signing up email account.....just went for lunch and opened the house back door and it's gone back to warm out there

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Maybe it felt to be back to April showers over this week..??

Plenty wet yesterday...and arrived in the wrong order...as my flower seeds to sprinkle and rake in arrived in the post after the rain was well underway. May be a light relief job for later today... Internet ponderings partly sorted with a required account switch so phone could be retained...given po...

Had the 1987 Hayter Harrier48 out yesterday and gave the lawn and roadside frontage a mow...still got the daffodil tops section to sort. Found myself at the local garden centre on the way home from work...some of the yellow bidens came home with me and a pack of lobelia....quick sort of the fence si...

We had 4mm, then 3mm....with another 6mm in the glass this morning with a bit more during the day in some sharp showers. It's certainly made things put on a spurt of growth...the good, the bad and the ugly alike............ Blooming windy today...and it went quite cold around lunchtime but warmed ag...

Light rain at the moment here..just enough now to start wetting the corsey...

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My plant delivery arrived today...not quite in the safeplace as requested but safe enough and here.. just slightly lightened in colour but all ok. Rain was in the forecast from 10am...but nothing came in fact it was warm and with a very drying wind.. Got wet walking from the car to the back door jus...

I think it might be productive if the rain listed for tomorrow evening is a nice steady event. Otherwise it is very dusty...just been hoeing round with my Fiskars classic range sharp bladed draw hoe in a cloud of dust..likewise, catching some of the little weed seedlings. I had a quick trip to the l...

The courgettes that I sowed some while back, came up ok and yesterday were planted in a small rectangle that I cleared by the little shed door...they've got a lot of growing to do but have gone in with plenty water underneath...and I see that there is some rain about this week. Just now I have deplo...

I forgot to say... I saw two wheat fields this afternoon that were coming in to ear..


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Blooming hot again today.. yesterday's respite at 16C was a very workable day. I have continued setting out bedding and border gap filling all looking ok...plenty of water in planting hole and dry soil pulled back over to trap the moisture in below plant. Swifts are at last screeching about over the...

My old fangle phone won't take apps.....but a couple of my colleagues have the merlin app and it has alerted us to some subsequent special sightings. Tendancy is not to entirely trust it...until you get to see the bird. Such was the case with a Firecrest last year



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We have a saying locally...If the Fens don't take it and Keal Hill don't split it then we get it... Looking out now and online radar map it looks like the Fens are going to take it...the thundery edge of grey is above us now and certainly don't want anything swilling..but a few spots to damp the rak...

I hadn't had a moment to have a look over at the back field... Had a look over just now and it looks to be maize that is coming through. About 2ft between rows and variable, maybe 6 to 10 inches along the rows...I'm assuming for bio digester use.. Meanwhile, after tea and sorting some washing...I lo...

Forgot to say I have been passing a field of Phacelia on the way to work...my work colleague said today...have you seen that field now.?

Crimson clover has come in to flower below the Phacelia....it looks amazing.

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