A lack of rain (!)

Oh dear blogging friends I cannot tell you how wonderful it is to type those words!

It did not rain here at all, today!

And in fact, we even had SUNSHINE!

I managed to do my daily outdoor tasks in SUNSHINE. I did not have to wear a waterproof, or wellies. It was cold so I did wear lots of layers, a fleece and boots though. But I can live with that :)

The hens were able to do some sun basking :) I hung out and line dried two lots of washing, oh the smell of outdoor dried washing after several months of drying the stuff inside!

There are snowdrops and crocii blooming all over the place and I did several hours work in the garden and the polytunnel, while basking in the wonderful golden rays from the SUNSHINE.

 And then, we had the most fabulous sunset :)

I feel much better about life now I have had a small taste of Spring. Please, let it come soon :)

What I did on Tuesday, when it didn't rain!

Today it did NOT rain - so I got on with outdoor jobs - Compostman got out the mower for me and I  mowed everywhere, 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I spread the grass clippings around in the orchard to mulch out the weeds,  and piled the remainder  up awaiting time for me to put  into various compost bins

 

 The hen run and two houses have been cleaned out and disinfected, hen run wood chippings cleared out and composted, ground sanitised and more chippings added into the run, new dust bath areas procured in run from dry compost and wood ash, and the hens have all had a good cuddling session each and been wandering around the garden while I mowed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The polytunnel plants are all watered, and I pricked out yet more more kale and purple sprouting broccoli seedlings,

 

Then I went and posted a couple of letters and admired some owl babies in a secret location nearby,
ate a  yummy dinner and now have settled down with a  book  (Catching Fire, part 2 of The Hunger Games trilogy) a glass of wine and and crochet.

Oh and I did some boring stuff today as well - housework-y stuff and bill paying-y stuff and washing-hanging-out-y stuff, but that is not really noteworthy!

It felt good to be working outside without a waterproof coat on, for a change.