Happy Halloween!

 That’s a ghost monster munch in case it wasn’t clear :)

First blue egg!

One of the cream legbars has FINALLY started laying. I am so eggsited!

Her friend has also started laying her pretty brown eggs. Both first eggs are small but with a little time thry will be laying normal size ones… Mr legbar also in this picture. I’m hoping when I breed him and the one layong brown eggs that the offspring should have green eggs…

Fixing up the floor

You’ll notice some of these don’t reach the wall, not ideal for holding up the floor. There was a chimney breast here and we had to have it removed before it collapsed, which is why the joists are hanging like this. 

The floorboards have basically been giving this bit the strength to stay up. They are pretty rotten and are coming up. We can then do something about replacing these joists with ones that do reach the wall…

Admiring the sunrise

 

Good year for mushrooms

Penny bun and Orange Birch bolete, this is about half of the ones we have found recently. We don’t normally get so many, they obviously liked the drought the. rain…

We’ve also found lots of field mushrooms, although there have been other years with more of them

Clearing some fence lines

We have some help clearing the fence lines which is much needed and appreciated.

This is a photo of the cows helping them out - I’m not sure their help was appreciated as it involved eating branches before they had finished being cut and tossing around the ones neatly piled for burning!

It looks green in the photo after a little rain, but the grass is really in a bad way after the drought. We will be getting hay for the cows very soon I think. A month or more earlier than usual.

Rendering the end wall…

The end wall has been getting damp because rain drives on to this wall and goes through cracks in the render and doesn’t dry out.

We’ve had it all taken off and redone. Looks much nice, we will lime wash it eventually a warmer colour.

We helped to the extent pf getting sand and lime, but we cannot claim to have done any of this ourselves. Expert plasterer was needed for this job!

Before

During

After - it will dry a lighter colour than this…

This is the rest of the wall below the out door kitchen roof. It’s not quite finished yet, but gonna look great! Will be nice not to have sand and rubble falling off the wall all the time too!