Pine BarrowJournal

Notes from a small holding on the edge of the moor: the hedge, the wall, the hens, the weather, and whatever else needed doing that week.

Mowing the meadow

Late cut this year, after the yellow rattle had set seed.

Keeping hens through the winter

Laying drops with the light and there is nothing to be done about it short of a bulb in the house, which I do not do.

Mending the five-bar gate

The top hinge had worked loose from the post and the gate was dragging a groove in the track.

Sourdough starter, week six

The starter is reliable now.

An old map of the parish

Found a tithe map from the 1840s in the county archive, with every field named.

Walking the ridge in cloud

Set off in sun and was in cloud by the second cairn.