by Jkrisp | Feb 4, 2018 | Keep things running, Seasons
Well as you know lately we have been getting hurricane speed winds and days with 20 mile per hour winds with 60 mile per hour gusts. As usual the day can start with barely a breeze and the seemingly out of nowhere the winds whip up and can lead to...
by Jkrisp | Jan 29, 2018 | Flowers, Gardens, Keep things running
While the ever-changing wild weather continues outside there is plenty of work to do inside. A newly order flat pack bee-hive has arrived and needed assembling so I go busy with that while the wind rain and sleet whipped around. Unlike Ikea furniture this did...
by Jkrisp | Jan 25, 2018 | Gardens, Keep things running, Seasons, Walks
Storm Georgina hit us last night and we recorder winds up to 88 miles per hour at the house but across the meadow they were probably even stronger. Thankfully the pollytunnel is holding up fine but the wind and deer fences both blew down. The wind fence is...
by Jkrisp | Jan 20, 2018 | Keep things running
We have closed the walk to do some major work on the path along the lower edge of the meadow as you head toward the woodland walk. A combination of the old victorian ceramic pipes being crushed, heavy rains and some poorly laid out drainage piping and...
by Jkrisp | Dec 8, 2017 | Gardens, Greenhouse, Keep things running
Having finished the outer structure of the lean-to I began to build the shelf inside where we will start growing a variety of plants to be planted out along the walk and in the house garden. The initial plan was the there would only be plants on the shelf as...
by Jkrisp | Dec 7, 2017 | Greenhouse, Keep things running, Seasons
The winds started picking up yesterday and as it was getting dark I came back to the barn to lock up and found that the roof of our new lean-to was already loose and flapping in the wind. Unfortunately there was not much I could do but hope that overnight the damage...
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