An occasional record of jobs on the holding and walks off it. Mostly written in the evening, mostly about the weather.

An old map of the parish

Found a tithe map from the 1840s in the county archive, with every field named.

Sourdough starter, week six

The starter is reliable now.

Mending the five-bar gate

The top hinge had worked loose from the post and the gate was dragging a groove in the track.

Keeping hens through the winter

Laying drops with the light and there is nothing to be done about it short of a bulb in the house, which I do not do.

Mowing the meadow

Late cut this year, after the yellow rattle had set seed.

This year's allotment plan

Four beds in rotation: brassicas where the beans were, roots where the brassicas were, potatoes in the manured bed, and legumes in the bed the potatoes cleaned.