Dorset lifestyle
Blue skies and light winds for a few hours at lunchtime, enough time to look at the view, and food cooked and eaten outdoors just seems to taste better! The sheep were chewing the cud in the adjacent paddock and the donkeys wandered up and down the avenue, curious but slightly nervous of seeing something different. Poppy is eating ok so we may have a week without seeing the vet. Picked tomatoes, courgettes and apple twigs for the donkeys. A sunny cloudy windy day.
Smudge taking an interest in the barbecue, as the charcoal warmed up and the rain started he stayed sitting underneath, warming his back. Turned part of the compost heap, the latest load of grass cuttings are steaming and are now mixed in with a few barrow loads of sheep and donkey poo; another raised bed has arrived and will need filling so will have to brave the nettles and start removing half rotted compost from the other end of the heap. Removed a deer tick from behind my knee. A drizzly end to a cool day with cloudy sunshine.
