Busy as a bee...

Morning Bloomers,


Naughty lamb stood on Mum's back

 By crikey it's been a busy few weeks here.  We've had a super busy Mothering Sunday, lambing has pretty much finished apart from a few stragglers, and we've been sowing and potting on like little troopers.

The flower plots are covered in nice straight lines where seeds have been sown and the seed trays are all organised and labelled up too.  Now, whilst this might not sound all that impressive or something that a person would normally 'go on' about, for me it is a bit of a triumph.  Every year I try my best to sow in lovely straight lines/rows and each year end up with wonky skew wiff lines/rows - I've used rake handles, the edges of planks and the highly technical 'stick your finger in the ground and try and walk in a straight line' technique.  All to no avail. 

This year is going to be my year of mastering growing in straight(ish) lines.  I say straight(ish) because well.... I can barely walk in a straight line sober!  Call me clumsy, gormless, and a bit of a klutz but falling over my own feet is a regular occurrence.  This year on the flower plots it's going to be different - I have a new gadget.  It's so simple really - two foot long sticks/dibbers with a piece of long twine tied to each end.  Why I hadn't used one before I don't really know but if it's good enough for builders to use to build walls etc, then it's good enough for me to try and get me to sow in straight lines.

We've also had another piece of wonderful equipment installed in the new tunnel - drip hose!  Brilliant stuff is drip hose.  We have it running off rain water (no mains water for us on the flower plots) from a little stream that runs close to the tunnel, and off it goes, slowly slowly dripping water to the roots of our tender plants and young seedlings that are busy growing in the tunnel. 

So, with my highly prized (inherited) straight line device and the drip hose doing it's job in the big tunnel, things on the flower plots should be a little easier this year.  Fingers crossed.



"What ya doing?"  - Pups looking through fence to the plot



Right, enough about straight lines and drip hose. 

Other news is that there's litter of puppies on the farm.  Six little bundles of fluff that roam about as though they own the place.  And when they're not pottering about the place they've been busy sleeping in the sunshine...



Life's hard - Lying in the sun fast asleep



So as you can see, during the last week or so of lovely spring sunshine, everyone and everything has been playing outside soaking up the sunshine.  The lambs are busy leaping about in the fields and things are busy growing.

There's snow on the top of the Beacons this morning - so I think the rest of the day will be spent doing paperwork and indoor jobs.

Have a lovely few days.

Cathy

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