I juiced enough apples from the damaged tree for one batch of cider. Still have enough to do at least one more. Not as many as last year, and smaller fruit but tasty all the same. Hopefully it ciders ok.
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Water back on 🚿 🎉
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Have had a bit of a day after a bit of a night. Now we’ve got no water so I’m grumpy as well as tired.
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Just opened the lid of the hedgehog feeding station to fill the food bowl and found a very puffed up and indignant hog. I apologised and let them finish. When I went back they’d gone. Food now topped up for the next sitting.
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My favourite apple tree (the one outside my office window) has fallen victim to storm Boelo 😢. It is still standing but it has lost a main branch and is now very lopsided. The trunk is hollow so it’s pretty vulnerable. It is laden with fruit as the variety is late to ripen. I started picking them today with the intention of making cider. I will need to look into propagating it fairly soon, just in case we lose it. No idea how mind.
It was like a little whirlwind came through. My husband had gone out to get something from his workshop just before it got dark and I was preparing dinner. There was then a great swirling wind that threw leaves at the kitchen window, which was weird. It’s in a sheltered spot, the main wind direction coming from the opposite side of the house. I remember thinking that he’d picked the wrong time to go outside. When he came back in he said that he rushed into his workshop as he saw a ‘ball of rain’ come over the field. The branch came down just after.
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I’m making one of those cakes where I know it’ll overflow the tin if I use all the mix. So of course I use all the mix 😅