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Monthly Archives: April 2021
Swimming, 23rd April 2021
A repeat of yesterday’s set, which I honestly thought probably couldn’t go any better, but in fact I had around a quarter of my 50m swims below 47s and only a couple in the 48s, so I was both pleased … Continue reading
Swimming, 22nd April 2021
Having managed the previous sessions without too much bother today I knocked five seconds off the interval, bringing it down to 100 seconds. Until such time as I get closer to having twenty to twenty-five seconds rest that’s all I’m … Continue reading
Swimming, 20th April 2021
I stuck with the same plan for today as yesterday and very happily found that for all of my 50m reps I was a comfortable second faster than I’d managed only twenty-four hours previously. Even the 25m reps were no … Continue reading
No dig diary, 19th April 2021
As I posted a couple of days ago, most of my cucurbits have been doing fairly well, the exception being the courgettes. So today I sowed the remaining four seeds as a backup in case the others don’t germinate at … Continue reading
Swimming, 19th April 2021
I decided to work off the clock when I swam today, but still take it fairly easy, so I set myself a target of doing twenty 50m swims in under 60 seconds on an interval of 105 seconds. After that … Continue reading
No dig diary, 18th April 2021
We have potato sign! Having sulked in the ground for what seems far too long, this evening I noticed that the first early potatoes (International Kidney, planted out on 19th March) are just starting to break the surface of the … Continue reading
No dig diary, 17th April 2021
Had things been going to plan, today was to have been filled with planting out of tomatoes in the polytunnel, aubergines and melons in the new greenhouse and perhaps even some peppers (probably split between the two). I chickened out … Continue reading
Chick hatching 2021
It’s been a couple of years since we last did this. Today I put three dozen eggs in incubators today (a dozen each of Copper Black Marans, Cream Legbar and White Leghorn), so hopefully around the weekend of 8th May … Continue reading
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Grow your own pineapple
Well, ok, maybe 🙂 I’ve never done this before, so my daughter and I thought we’d give it a go as we have a couple of pineapples to be eaten this weekend. The top had already been cut off, so … Continue reading
Trailure Failure
It is alleged that there is an ancient Chinese curse that translates as “May you live in interesting times”. On Wednesday, I certainly had “interesting times” 🙂 My father-in-law had asked me to help him take his old freezer to … Continue reading