Up until Xmas week the field had been reasonably dry until the rains and an expanding River Dee filling up from Wales...
Ongoing Crohns / health distractions have rendered most of 2013 a slow year.
I did manage to get nearly 30 litres of cider prepared from the orchard trees as well as a couple of litres of fresh apple juice refreshingly drunk soon after pressing.
A handy implement was acquired from a talented local blacksmith - a sturdy levelling ring for dressing over a couple of low spots in the grassland. Based on an old cartwheel iron tyre used for similar in one of Louden's old agricultural encyclopaedias.
Tree stock at home for transplanting has a minor backlog, but includes the interesting malus pumila niedzwetzkyana
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