Can hardly believe it is the 1st August. The contractor arrived with the combine on Friday and made a start on harvesting our Oilseed Rape which was coming off quite well and a nice sample, rain overnight meant we ground to a halt yesterday, but this meant Andy was able to come with me to celebrate a friend’s 50th birthday in the evening. They have been combining today, but a heavy shower has just gone through so no doubt that will be it for today.
We let the two new Indian runner ducks out of the run yesterday, they enjoyed the pond and being able to have a proper bath instead of a paddle and seem to have made friends with the other ducks, they all went to bed in the same house last night so that is a good sign. Looking forward to some tastie duck eggs from them soon.
We popped into Wye the other night it is only a 10 minute drive and we had a very nice meal at the New Flying Horse, we were celebrating Maria’s excellent 2nd year university results.
This week I have been busy making some cherry plum jam which turned out very well and we have been eating some very delicious Kentish cherries.
