And an hour or so of barrowing wood chip to the larger rhubarb patch to suppress the weeds

One rhubarb patch is covered in wool and one in wood chip. Which will work better as a weed suppressant ?

They were just in time to help bottle feed the lambs

Then the vets arrived to give the lambs anti worming drench

Then they took a look at Juno who has some bare patches on his legs. They took blood and hair samples to see if it’s nutritional deficiency ( unlikely) or a parasite or tick

Meanwhile Nigel was tucking into his latest trophy – pigeon pie

He believes that you should eat what you kill

There’s a thick layer of wool covering one of our rhubarb beds the wool is heavy with water and we put it there to suppress the weeds. I thought it might also stop the rhubarb from emerging. How wrong I was.

There were 35 or more women who listened attentively and asked some good questions

I was asked to judge a table of elephants

And at Rhyme Time at my weekly session for pre schoolers in the library, one little girl presented me with a freshly picked daffodil.