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Category Archives: Environment
Mains water leak (hopefully) resolved
The final paperwork is still to arrive, but it looks as though our water leak may now be fully resolved. The most shocking thing is the amount of water lost. At our current rate of consumption it looks to be … Continue reading
More confused plants
These photos were taken at the start of October. Ripe, ready-to-pick beans on the plants and, err, flowers?
Bumble bees, at this time of year?!
End of the first week of January and as I was walking out of the veggie plot I could hear a loud buzzing sound. Took me a while to locate it, but eventually I found this. I’ve no idea what … Continue reading
How much?! A mind-numbing water leak
Our water supplier read the meter at the start of last September which prompted a letter to me just before they sent the bill saying, “Errr, your bill is going to be quite big. Do you have a leak?”. “Quite … Continue reading
Eek! The rain!
First heavy rain of the Autumn after a long, dry Summer, and half of it ends up in the workshop! Not certain how I’m going stop that happening again for the moment. Ideally I guess I’d need to add a … Continue reading
Lord of the fruit flies?
I have no idea what’s going on here, but for a week or more these flies were congregating on this corner of the house in their thousands. Possibly tens of thousands. There were so many that it was possible to … Continue reading
Damsons? In the last week of September?
It has just been a really, really weird year…
Spring and Autumn all in one day
From an orchard where I was picking apples for cider…
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It might look like rain forest
but actually this is just Willett Hill, and a lot colder!
Field fire!
Everything became so incredibly dry this Summer. Our grass had gone way beyond crispy. And then one day I noticed this out of the window. I believe the farmer was harvesting the straw from this field and presumably something caused … Continue reading