Walking the Policies

05/06/2017
Country Life

Stuff is really starting to grow at Stonewalls now. We have this Blue thing up in the Meadow Field. Teasels in the Paddock. Lots of Greater Stitchwort in the Pipe and Ivytree Fields. …and the first sighting of Red Clover in the Ivytree Field. We are not sure if it’s our imagination, but we seem to have many more English Bluebells this year. They are dotted all over the place.

It’s silage time.

26/05/2017
Country Life

The farmers are making the best of all this nice weather with the first silage cut of the year. I’m not sure if this is early or late this year, as I didn’t note when it was done last year. Sand seems to think the first cut would have been around the end of April….

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A tad more cement

24/05/2017
Country Life

Finished off the stonework on the windows in the dairy

Walking the Policies

22/05/2017
Country Life

The Sun shines at Stonewalls today, so a little walk around the policies to admire late Spring in full flow. The Foxgloves are now starting to flower, and the grass is really starting to grow in the Top Field….

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a bit of logging.

21/05/2017
Country Life

That Leylandii really has to go, especially as there is an Elm Type tree behind it. With a judicious use of the loppers and it’s gone….

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Moving the roof.

20/05/2017
Country Life

Well this is all the rubbish left by the builders. I thought most of the wood would be reusable in the new tractor shed, but a lot of it had woodworm, so it’s all be assigned to the wildlife wood pile. This is before. Luckily all the the corrugated is in pretty good nick, so this is going to save a fortune by using this on the tractor shed. We were fortunate that the…

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