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View through a small window: July 2015
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View through a small window. Thoughts from our smallholding in the province of Lugo, Galicia, in the north-west of Spain. Sunday, 5 July 2015. They went into the prepared turkey house and spent 24 hours there to settle down with food and water. This morning they were let out into the heavily vegetated orchard where they will spend the rest of their lives. Tim and Nicky Jarman. Friday, 3 July 2015. There has been very little rain this Spring and I am trying to mulch as much as possible to retain moisture ...
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View through a small window: Entry for the Space Bats Competition
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View through a small window. Thoughts from our smallholding in the province of Lugo, Galicia, in the north-west of Spain. Tuesday, 18 August 2015. Entry for the Space Bats Competition. Regular readers - don't panic! This is an entry for a short story competition hosted over at the Archdruid Report. We will be returning shortly to our regularly scheduled posts.]. Teco slit the pulsing throat and whispered words of thanks to the Mother as it gave up its life, spilling into the earth. Pan joined. As they th...
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View through a small window: Triffid Tomatoes
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View through a small window. Thoughts from our smallholding in the province of Lugo, Galicia, in the north-west of Spain. Friday, 3 July 2015. There has been very little rain this Spring and I am trying to mulch as much as possible to retain moisture in the soil. My next project over winter is to install some tanks to capture rainwater from the roof. The flowers are looking very beautiful. I am eating day lillies every day as a snack and still they bloom. Tim and Nicky Jarman. Tim and Nicky Jarman. Two m...
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View through a small window: December 2014
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View through a small window. Thoughts from our smallholding in the province of Lugo, Galicia, in the north-west of Spain. Thursday, 25 December 2014. Seasons Greetings to All. We made an evergreen bower on the 20th to decorate the sitting room which smells lovely as it includes bay, rosemary, flowering gorse, holly and ivy. Tim's family made them when he was a boy so many years ago. Tim and Nicky Jarman. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Tim and Nicky Jarman. View my complete profile. Seasons Greetings to All.
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View through a small window: January 2015
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View through a small window. Thoughts from our smallholding in the province of Lugo, Galicia, in the north-west of Spain. Friday, 16 January 2015. We have got away with a mild winter so far but yesterday the first proper storm of the year hit called Hermann with heavy rain and very strong winds, followed last night with snow which continued into this morning. It is as ever, very beautiful and proved to be very exciting for the dogs. It is now sleety so I expect the snow will be gone fairly soon. Two midd...
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View through a small window: May 2014
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View through a small window. Thoughts from our smallholding in the province of Lugo, Galicia, in the north-west of Spain. Thursday, 15 May 2014. Flowers, Flowers, Everywhere. Galicia is gorgeous, bathed in another sunny day with birds singing and new leaves a brilliant green. All over the garden flowers are in bloom and bees and hoverflies are hard at work. The Aquilegia flowers continue to delight me as they take so many different sizes, shapes and colours. The Iris are also very beautiful. Two middle-a...
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View through a small window: May 2015
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View through a small window. Thoughts from our smallholding in the province of Lugo, Galicia, in the north-west of Spain. Saturday, 30 May 2015. Living In The Moment. We are in the middle of a stretch of sunny weather and I am trying to enjoy every moment. Although I am always behind on the garden, running to catch up with the work, I always try to take some time out to smell the roses (literally and metaphorically). I am now the proud owner of a new poly-tunnel. Ill health has given me reflection time t...
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View through a small window: March 2015
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View through a small window. Thoughts from our smallholding in the province of Lugo, Galicia, in the north-west of Spain. Sunday, 22 March 2015. They pump out the slurry tanks under the barns and spray it on their fields before growing hay. They throw their vegetable waste onto the vegetable patch over winter before ploughing it in, in Spring. Soiled bedding is neatly stacked and left to age. Nothing is wasted. I can't wait for more warm weather so that I too can blossom instead of hunching over the fire.
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View through a small window: September 2014
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View through a small window. Thoughts from our smallholding in the province of Lugo, Galicia, in the north-west of Spain. Monday, 1 September 2014. Unfortunately our young white cockerel Barry died last week. Our dogs cornered him outside where he shouldn't have been and mauled him. Although he only had one cut he had some of his feathers pulled out by the dogs and by the time we discovered him, he was in shock. Despite our best efforts he died over night. Barry in happier times with some of his ladies.
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View through a small window: February 2015
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View through a small window. Thoughts from our smallholding in the province of Lugo, Galicia, in the north-west of Spain. Monday, 16 February 2015. It is that time of year when madness hits the streets of Friol and everyone dresses up and bar crawl around Friol playing music and enjoying themselves. Yes it is Entroido or Carnival, an ancient celebration, traditionally frowned up on by the Catholic Church where tricks are played upon people and masks are worn. Tim and Nicky Jarman. Tim and Nicky Jarman.
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