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2023-08-25 11:30:05 UTC

Empty skies. The swallows have left for the south. Let’s hope we see them back next year. #ClimateDiary #MigratoryBirds
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2023-08-24 21:25:06 UTC

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@npub1cqh…4rf7 Wow! Outgunned and impressed - especially that you got good flavour from it too.

2023-08-24 21:23:45 UTC

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@npub1998…s3mn yes ‘Roma’ it is and ‘golden sun’ and a heritage plum tomato that I forget the name of! 🙄 The yellow courgettes have a really dense flavourful flesh.

2023-08-24 17:23:12 UTC

Harvest! And this is just today’s haul. #GrowYourOwn #vegetables #gardening @npub1pur…z24k
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2023-08-18 08:25:54 UTC

View from the gate: a grey day but warm and not raining. Having #friends for #coffee this morning, a real treat.
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2023-08-17 09:18:22 UTC

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@npub12dt…krzh Warm and damp - good year for the rowans and the willow.

2023-08-17 08:55:45 UTC

Red her cheeks as rowans are,
Bright her eye as any star..,
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2023-08-17 08:49:54 UTC

Pears: having a conference about ripening. 🙂
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2023-08-14 21:48:11 UTC

While a big fan of rewilding: letting grass grow. A tool I use a lot is the Husquvarner brushcutter - it makes organic field management possible (and yes, before you ask we have a scythe & use it regularly but the brush cutter does thistles/path-clearing much more efficiently than the scythe). Today’s problem is that the little plastic connector that catches the pull-back on the starter cable has broken. Can’t find one online anywhere😡. Have emailed suppliers. #Mend #Fix #Smallholding #organic
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2023-08-13 15:19:05 UTC

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@npub1uem…wssk and the Pope?

2023-08-13 09:44:38 UTC

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@npub1ezx…74mr It’s actually not difficult to fix packaging there’s just not the political will. This is what we need.

2023-08-12 20:37:12 UTC

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@npub1sk5…qf7z in our house we call these little revelations a ‘new and fresh’! Keeps life entertaining at least.

2023-08-12 18:44:57 UTC

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@npub1sk5…qf7z This us interesting if you would like more. https://treesforlife.org.uk/into-the-forest/trees-plants-animals/plants/blaeberry/

2023-08-12 18:43:34 UTC

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@npub1sk5…qf7z Yes and no. The Blaeberry as a wild plant is a native to Scotland’s moors. This is a garden plant bred from USA strains so not the native Scots blaeberry but still flourishing in our climate.

2023-08-12 15:12:52 UTC

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@npub1afh…4l67 The issues with road side trees are winter salt and glyphosate… not so easy as a garden tree. Good luck with the stone! Let us know if it germinates could take 18 months or more.

2023-08-12 13:39:14 UTC

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@npub1afh…4l67 If you have taken plum trees out look for layerings and suckers coming up from the base. They do grow from the roots very easily.

2023-08-12 13:32:08 UTC

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@npub194t…d8az Look after yourself in all of this. Been there and it was really tough, so go easy on yourself and I hope you get something soon.

2023-08-12 13:30:12 UTC

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@npub1afh…4l67 If It germinates there’s no reason it wouldn’t fruit. Just be aware of potential final tree size. Our old apple trees are enormous and picking is a challenge. This is the real benefit of a dwarfing rootstock.

2023-08-12 13:26:24 UTC

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@npub1gk7…4js6 Does what it says on the tin! We’re in North Fife and have been working a #permaculture smallholding here since 2016.

2023-08-12 11:33:49 UTC

Dog walk two views from the same point in the path. We need sunscreen going forward and raincoats for going back! #Scotland #dogs #photography #weather
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2023-08-12 09:18:45 UTC

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@npub1xm2…pejw no sheep but we have the rain…
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2023-08-12 09:17:31 UTC

Blaeberries in the rain and nettles. Going to have to come back with gloves and clear up round this bush. #Work #Smallholding #Fruit
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2023-08-11 17:52:12 UTC

View from the gate: rain approaching. We are to have #thunderstorms tomorrow. #BattenDownTheHatches
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2023-08-10 21:32:38 UTC

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@npub1gdt…fd90 Here too, but we ‘hide a courgette in the neighbours porch!’ 😆

2023-08-10 21:32:38 UTC

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@npub1gdt…fd90 Here too, but we ‘hide a courgette in the neighbours porch!’ 😆

2023-08-10 09:42:40 UTC

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@npub17sf…q4k2 Well I would rather be this way than have ‘Justice Insensitivity’! #ADHD

2023-08-10 08:22:49 UTC

View from the gate: a soft grey day today. #scotland #Fife
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2023-08-07 08:44:52 UTC

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@npub1ckw…z9cs Oh that sounds a fun project.

2023-08-07 08:42:52 UTC

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@npub1s4q…8xtm They took the car to Dundee and we went up and got it to Kwik Fit this morning. Picking it up at lunchtime. So basically 24hrs from puncture to return home with fixed car. 🥺

2023-08-06 20:41:05 UTC

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Home! Pet eye contact in picture #dog #dogsofmastodon #HappyDog
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2023-08-06 17:31:48 UTC

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Roadside update! Still broken down: a few more clouds though…
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2023-08-06 17:30:28 UTC

A field of oats. #SilentSunday
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2023-08-06 17:02:47 UTC

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@npub1sk5…qf7z I seem to be pissing off a small bird in the hawthorn to my left but otherwise in harmony with nature!

2023-08-06 17:01:53 UTC

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@npub1sk5…qf7z Ah in which case I am just past Melville Mount on the back road to STA.

2023-08-06 16:50:23 UTC

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@npub1sk5…qf7z I am in North East Fife, half an hour’s walk to St Andrews. If you look very carefully you might just see the Firth of Tay like a tiny blue ribbon in the photo between the fields and the sky. Easier perhaps with the human eye…
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2023-08-06 16:36:07 UTC

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@npub1ckw…z9cs @npub1s4q…8xtm It’s a very pretty stretch of road just with a lot of huge potholes! 😍

2023-08-06 16:35:11 UTC

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@npub1sk5…qf7z Never been to Ontario and Fife is OK when not suck in a broken down vehicle of a Sunday afternoon.

2023-08-06 16:31:14 UTC

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@npub1s4q…8xtm Yeah I think it is standard in EV

2023-08-06 16:27:01 UTC

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@npub1sk5…qf7z That’s the stuff. Focus on the wee plusses! It is lovely, and very quiet. My OH is due to relieve me at 18:30 and take a turn waiting!

2023-08-06 16:24:50 UTC

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@npub1s4q…8xtm @Seafoot Hit something on the road have puncture and buckled hub cap. The current RAC estimate is 19:22-21:22 which is an oddly-precise two hour window. But we’re only a half hour walk from our son’s house (our destination 🙄) so doing the sit in the car in relays. The Nissan Leaf doesn’t have a spare tyre (to save battery) so nothing else to do but wait. 👍

2023-08-06 16:13:37 UTC

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@npub1n3m…sg3v A good day’s work!

2023-08-06 16:13:08 UTC

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@npub1ngu…yde5 current RAC estimate is 19:22-21:22 which is an oddly-precise two hour window. But we’re only a half hour walk from our son’s house (our destination 🙄) so doing the sit in the car in relays. Hit something on the road have puncture and buckled hub cap. The Nissan Leaf doesn’t have a spare tyre (to save battery) so nothing else to do but wait. 👍

2023-08-06 15:56:47 UTC

Broken down! Nice day for it! #scotland #Fife
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2023-08-03 14:11:48 UTC

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@npub1av4…94ku It looks like this, and I don’t do any games so I’m not sure what the difference would be. I write and edit. I do have a very fluffy cat - and that hasn’t been an issue!
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2023-08-03 13:59:02 UTC

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@npub1av4…94ku I use a mouse with a rollerball - it is definitely less straining than a regular one. Mine is over 10 years old and going strong - so a good investment.

2023-08-03 08:10:24 UTC

View from the gate: clearing skies for once. #ThursdayVibes
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2023-07-26 11:27:21 UTC

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@npub1ckw…z9cs a lot of the ‘eco-holiday’ options are more expensive by far than the package deal. Could we turn that around?

2023-07-26 11:25:33 UTC

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@npub1ckw…z9cs Well yes and no. If we just use price rises to push people then that’s unlikely to reduce CO2 emissions very much just stress people’s pockets. What about price incentives for low CO2 emission holidays? Lower prices for hotels with a vegetarian menu or no pool? Maybe cheap holiday express buses and trains? A grant for everyone who takes a holiday within land-travel distance of their home?

2023-07-26 09:45:50 UTC

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@npub1xfd…t3yh Time to rejoin Europe but also give up #Flying #NoFlightPledge #ClimateCrisis #PlanetHeatstroke

2023-07-21 15:03:15 UTC

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@npub12jv…gf8c 2/2 We don’t buy chicken to eat, but do eat our own male birds. That comes out at about 14-16 carcasses a year, and then we eat every scrap nose to tail. We are never going to be supplying KFC 🤣. Much of this circular local economy is just not possible for pigs. The days of keeping a pig for domestic consumption are gone unless the pig keeper has a lot of money for a vanity project. High end organic pork with 0% soy in the diet is possible to buy but very expensive.

2023-07-21 14:58:51 UTC

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@npub12jv…gf8c Excellent article. As a #Smallholder the issues here are both to do with imported soy and the restrictive regulations around feeding poultry and pigs food waste. On a plot our size (2 acres) we can grow broad beans in sufficient quantities to feed our chickens and we can buy local barley - all our straw is also locally grown. However if we were bigger than a few dozen birds we would need licensed to make our own bird feed. We are forbidden to feed them kitchen waste. 1/2