Ravendale House

Today I put the seed potatoes in the conservatory to sprout or ‘chit’ as it is known in gardening circles. However, it is rather cold at the moment, particularly at night and I don’t want them to freeze, so I will cover them with newspaper each evening as the temperature drops.

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Today I received an acknowledgement from Suttons Seeds for my plant order, so that’s OK. In fact it’s even better than OK, as they don’t appear to have charged me for p&p!

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Yesterday we bought our seed potatoes and onion sets. This is an annual ritual which for me represents the start of the gardening year.

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In the early hours of Wednesday 27th of February 2008, the UK experienced it’s worst earthquake since 1984, measuring 5.2 on the richter scale and it’s epicentre was in Ludford only a few miles from where we live.

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My first job every morning is to put the bird food out onto the feeder. I do this even before I have my own breakfast. It’s a fairly short and well ordered routine that takes me a couple of minutes.

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Well the snow that was forecast yesterday has arrived overnight. The weathermen had a severe weather warning out for heavy snowfalls and said there would be 2cm – 5cm at lower levels and up to 15cm on higher ground. I still work in old money so for me that is a worst case scenario of 6″.

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Today we had another beautiful, bright and sunny afternoon, but oh so very, very windy. I have to confess to being a bit of a fair weather gardener, and I certainly don’t like wind.

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