You can control them with moveable electric fences run on a car battery.  When we looked at this house there were 2 resident sheep to keep the grass down. I assume they were borrowed but who knows?
I didn't do Wordle after all. I went outside and weeded the bean area in the vegetable garden then sowed a double row of broad beans. About 3/4 of the beans I sowed in the autumn have survived the winter. They never did at my last house.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Tidied the shed today. I even vacuumed it! Started clearing the bit by the door ready for a few paving slabs to make it look neater and easier to manoeuvre the mower in/out. The mower had a little MOT and the metal body needs some repair this year.Â
Evening everybody, nice and sunny but with an easterly wind. Had a good lunch with lots of friends at a canalside pub but had to sit outside under canvas because one of our friends insisted on doing so. The pub was under stress as well, their oil had been stolen, their propane supply had run out and they hadn't been able to get hold of any more. So not a big choice for lunch. Never mind, we went for the company not the food. One friend and his wife had come back to live in England after living in the Vendee for many years. I think not seeing their children or grandchildren for two years during covid had tipped the balance for them.
Saw the funniest sight yesterday. Walking back from the local shop, an Army jeep pulling a small trailer passed me, stopped at the roundabout with a look of absolute horror on the drivers face as he saw the 6ft width limit on the hill ahead, IÂ then heard a rumble beside, there were three absolutely enormous Army vehicles trying to get through past the parked cars. They came to a halt whilst the jeep driver turned round in a cul de sac and then the whole convoy went round the roundabout and went back the way they came from. I was very tempted to shout 'Ukraine is that way' but resisted. Poor b.....s, if they got lost in Bath, god help them, it's awful in the one way system if you don't know where you're going. I so wish I'd had my camera phone with me!
Glad you're feeling better @Busy-Lizzie, I should have commented before but by the time I'd finished writing my rather long post, I'd forgotten mostly who had posted what!
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Beautiful day here, but largely spent watching the rugby.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Tidied the shed today. I even vacuumed it! Started clearing the bit by the door ready for a few paving slabs to make it look neater and easier to manoeuvre the mower in/out. The mower had a little MOT and the metal body needs some repair this year.Â
day, but chilly breeze now.Â
Saw the funniest sight yesterday. Walking back from the local shop, an Army jeep pulling a small trailer passed me, stopped at the roundabout with a look of absolute horror on the drivers face as he saw the 6ft width limit on the hill ahead, IÂ then heard a rumble beside, there were three absolutely enormous Army vehicles trying to get through past the parked cars. They came to a halt whilst the jeep driver turned round in a cul de sac and then the whole convoy went round the roundabout and went back the way they came from. I was very tempted to shout 'Ukraine is that way' but resisted. Poor b.....s, if they got lost in Bath, god help them, it's awful in the one way system if you don't know where you're going. I so wish I'd had my camera phone with me!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.