After a warm, dry and sometimes spectacularly sunny extended Autumn we got all the winter weather at once. Temperatures plummeted and the snow covered the landscape in a soft white duvet. No sooner had the snow started to melt than storm Bert made its entrance with a red alert for […]

Christmas is coming and our Brussel sprouts are shaping up nicely. They are doing very well in the brassica cage, which has successfully kept the butterflies out this year. Keeping the butterflies at bay meant there wasn’t a caterpillar party  chomping through the plants, which gave them a much better […]

The hallowed period of Christmas was celebrated by the ancient Irish with great pomp and festivity. Fleming’s ‘History of Ancient Irish Customs’, gives an elaborate account of the festivity and amusement at this season of gaiety and mirth. He writes: “On Christmas Eve the village maidens went to the woods […]

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