Today.

Well, that's the dogs taken on their insane 2 and a half hour walk. Trouble was quite good. She sniffed her first horse and met a lot of new dogs. Unfortunately she got overly friendly with their owners and coated them in muddy foot prints. Sorry dog owners. :S At least she's started coming back when I call her now. Niche was really struggling, I don't normally walk her that far any more, but I couldn't bring myself to walk them separately today.
I've cleaned out both chicken coops. Quite a feat as I had to move their straw and wood shavings from the house to the bottom of the garden they are very heavy. I cleaned out their waterers (yes I do it most days and check them every day) checked their feed and hand picked the bedding out of it as they do seem to like burying their food.
I've done some washing, applied for a new job, fed the cat twice, the puppy once, washed the pots and put some home-made pie filling in the slow cooker (national pie day). I'm having a cup of tea, and then hopefully I'll hoover downstairs. Then I'm going to play video games!!!

Trying to cheer up the chickens.

Trying to cheer up the chickens in this weather. A vain hope?

I think I've given it a good go.

Doesn't she look like a pony. :P

 The dogs aren't that impressed either. I'd been walking them in the rain for three hours straight. I walked them separately, as Trouble needed a much bigger walk than Niche could cope with today.
My water proof coat let the rain through and I was soaked to the skin. My trainers were full of water.

 I wish it would stop raining!! Please stop raining.

My black Friday shopping.

Chicken breakfast.

They need something to cheer them up in this nasty weather.

Dog walk. Trouble isn't necessarily to be trusted off the lead. She's getting better though. 

She walks pretty well on the lead now. :)

This is the chicken bedding to keep us going over Christmas. 

And last but not least. Sheep!

Insomnia.

I think with all that's happening in the world right now, and with the fact that I'm coming down with something,  I am struggling to sleep.
I am wiling away the dark hours going through a book of plants and planing out the front garden.
As the garden is really rather shaded I have so far decided upon:

Asplenium scolopendrium which is an evergreen harts tongue fern. height 70cm/ spread 60cm.

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Athyrium niponicum var. Pictum. Japanese painted fern. height 38 cm/spread 35cm.

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Aquilegia canadensis. Columbine. height 90cm/spread 30cm.


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Digitalis Purpurea. Foxglove. height 6 feet/spread 50cm.


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If anyone can think of anything else that goes well with dry shade then do comment.

Proud.

Proud >_<

I grew a very large, perfect parsnip. :D

I've grown bigger parsnips, but they've always looked like sea monsters. This is the biggest parsnip I've ever grown that actually looked like a parsnip.

These are my two sebright chicks. One boy and one girl. I am selling them. If anyone wants to buy them feel free to comment.

Cold climate permaculture design and farming

This is Awesome. Someone do this with me?