Gallimaufry

Gallimaufry

Gallimaufry, that’s what she said. I did a double take and immediately made a note of the word for me to look up later. It was while listening to The Archers early last week that I clearly heard Linda Snell say the word when describing her pop-up Cinderella...
On the Beech

On the Beech

The bucolic scene above was taken on the approach to one of my customer’s houses whilst on my delivery round on Friday. These Highland cattle are so gorgeous, it would be very tempting to give them a big hug, but those magnificent horns are telling me to keep my...
Hoary

Hoary

Well, that was a week of proper winter! Unpleasant at times….sometimes dangerous, but somehow reassuring that it’s old fashioned seasonal weather. And when it wasn’t unpleasant it was beautiful. None more so than today when this morning everything...
In the year 25

In the year 25

Well here we are again, another year older and deeper in debt. Well the last bit isn’t actually true, but the first most definitely is. So a happy New Year to you all, let’s hope that it’s a good one. To be honest, when I look back and reflect on...
And so this is Christmas

And so this is Christmas

Christmas is coming at us at the speed of Casey Jones at the throttle of the Cannonball Express! A reference that will be lost on most of you young things, but along with Champion the Wonder Horse it was a staple of children’s TV when I was a youngster. Anyway,...
Temporary reprieve

Temporary reprieve

Don’t get too excited, but we have had a temporary stay of execution. There will be mushrooms for at least this week. Clearly the wind-down in production at the farm does not have a clean cut-off as there will be batches of fungi growing at different rates, and...

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