!.1.2024
HAPPY NEW YEAR to all my friends reading this. We have enjoyed a wonderful time this year with lots of parties and amazing food. I don’t think I can take any more rich delights! I certainly need an alcohol-free time to recover.
Edd and I have started a big clear up around the ruins. Edd is dismantling the old swimming pool and I am trimming back all the overgrown plants. It is quite tough work but we are making progress.
I have harvested the garlic and my first crop of cherries. We are still getting enough raspberries and strawberries for our breakfast fruit and there are far too many zucchinis.
12.12.2023
Tomorrow, we have our family party at Bo’s place. The younger family members like the party there so that they can use the pool, spa and snooker table. The older family members are glad not to drive as far as our place, but it does mean that Bo has most of the work to do. Edd went over to her house yesterday and mowed all the grass at the edges so we have contributed some help.
Today Sev has cleaned the difficult bits of grass on the roof and helped me prepare beds in the vegetable garden. I need to plant out beans and sweet corn. We are getting plenty of zucchinis and cabbages and the cucumbers have flowers. The kale has been eaten by caterpillars which is unusual. Edd tells me that he has been offered full time work next year. We will really miss the help he has given us but he has been so good that I realised we would not keep him for long. More changes we need to adapt to in 2024!!
Graeme, our permaculture friend has got covid but he says he is not too sick. There has been lots of covid amongst our neighbours this wave.
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