Today has been a mixed day.
I had an interview this afternoon for a local sessional play ranger job, I applied for it last month and I’ve been really hope I’d get it. It sounds like a great project to be involved with and is only just starting in the area. I got the job!
My birthday [...]
Archive for April, 2008
The good and the bad
Posted in Day-to-day, tagged birthday, Cats, job interview, laptop on April 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Colony Collapse Disorder
Posted in Uncategorized on April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The link below is a petion for some funds to be ‘issued’ for research into this, I don’t really have a great understanding of what colony collapse disorder is (maybe because there hasn’t been enough research into it) but like I said in an earlier post, a world without bees… ?
Bee Research
Never a simple job
Posted in Food, Goats, Sheep, Wild Food, tagged Gorse on April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A while ago Muma found some information about the feed value of gorse, and from talking to the local sheep-badgers (people who run free-roaming sheep in the area) it use to be used a lot in the area. The Badgers would collected it and then put it through a stredder and use it as feed [...]
Hedgerow pickings
Posted in Food, Wild Food on April 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We haven’t really got anything in the garden to eat now, so on Sunday we went and found what we could in the lanes and hedgerows:
Wild Garlic
Jack in the Hedge
And Chard from the garden. We also collected nettles for dying some wool.
Eggs
Posted in Food, Home grown food, Quail on April 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My youngest house of quail have started to lay, I’ve had four in the past three days. The second days egg was another big one (pictured second from right) it was boiled and pickled last night.
Yesterday I moved Button in with Mr. & Mrs. Quail as they’re the same type, they had a few scraps [...]
Giving up added sugar
Posted in About nothing really, Day-to-day, Food on April 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In the Christmas break I started reading Diet for a Small Island by Patrick and Shirley Rivers, it has since been added to my pile of ‘reading’ books but it is really interesting (even though it is a little out of date now), one of the parts in there is about sugar. I have known [...]
Murphy’s laws
Posted in About nothing really, Day-to-day, Quail on April 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
There was a power cut earlier today, no-one had electric for miles around it seems. I didn’t know anything about it until I got home from work. Normally power cuts don’t bother us, we have a bottled gas (like we would get mains gas in our area, the village isn’t even on a mains sewage system) cooker and most of [...]
Down Shifting Week
Posted in Uncategorized on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This week is Down Shifting Week, I guess I’ve already taken part as I’ve planted some veg seed this week, the website is quite interesting.
When the real work begins
Posted in About nothing really, Day-to-day, Garden, Goats, Home grown food, Quail, Reading on April 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Last night I came home from work cut work for the stove, cleaned out half a goat house that was deep bedded over the winter, feed everyone (animals not people), had a talking to the house of quail who haven’t started laying yet, added the two new pages on here, designed a flyer for a gig [...]
Sheep Shearing
Posted in Farming News, Sheep on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I first read about this story on the river cottage forum, it’s just stupid, does ‘joe public’ honestly believe that sheep are happier carrying all that wool round with them all summer?
A sheep shearing competition that has been the centre of county life for years has been scrapped over concerns that the clippers may harm [...]
