When I look back on the week just put to sleep to see what happened, I turn to my generic cloud storage solution and scroll through the photos magically whisked from my phone there through the wonders of modern technology.
And this week, I see very little pictorial evidence of a week well worked. And then I remember, ahh yes. This was the week in which the piggies escaped. Twice.
They’re back again now, of course. My lamentations and chest beatings (and, guiltily, transient relief) would have been all over the socials, and they were not, so I guess all is as normal in the Pirate Island.
So I look back on last week’s substack, and find the list was:
Make fence posts / Stick them in the ground and hang the electric wires / Clear the beans (plots 3 and 4) / Rake over plot 6 and sow with winter green manure / Tidy the loft office / Clean the wood-burning oven. This is a bigger job than you might think
and I realise, I actually did most of this. The beans are still out there, because why not?. And they do seem to be drying. I’m going to chance it. Otherwise, tick tick tick. The green manure might fail because of all the frosts, but I guess we will find out. I hope not, because this year, the green manure is peas, spinach, sugar beet and broad beans. Yes, I use actual food as green manure.
And also! If you look closely at the potager at the top of this post, you may notice I also did a long side and a short side of bricks. So that’s two long sides (out of 12) and one short side (also out of 12) done. And none of the circles. But, yannow. Progress not perfection.
(Like that would ever be a motto of mine?!)
So, other than the almost daily frosts, and the semi-constant fist-shaking at the skies and railing against the injustice of being alive, I guess it’s been a good week.
Coming up:
Zap the dried peas
Spend a day in the Big City. Do Big City things
Bring wood inside
Mend grass-mowing tractor
Tidy the soft fruits for winter
Dig at least 12 holes for Pig Field fence
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