Border terrier Puppies

Sleepy Soli before pups.

Sam

Great news Soli has had 4 puppies, 2 girls 2 boys and they are all doing well. It was and still is an incredible experience . She was mated with Stowthorney Swinging Sam owned by Julie and Robert in Stowmarket

Newly born.

first feed

Izzy was up here at Bungeons with me and we are really grateful to Robert and Julie who called up to help as the last 2 puppies were being born to lend a hand and offer advice and reassurance.
We potentially have homes for 2 of the puppies , the other 2 border terrier pups are for sale.
I find time just slips away as I get drawn to watching Soli and puppies,

Not surprisingly we have many visitors and Soli is quite happy to be made a fuss of and let people see her puppies, she is a good mum

House with land for sale

Well Bungeons Farm here in Suffolk is still for sale. We have had quite a few viewers but the people who want to make an offer are caught up in housing chains. Apart from the house being very tidy life carries on.We now have 2 calves and soon we will move all the cattle (except one who is staying in Suffolk) to Norfolk for the rest of the winter.We  have had a few very welcome frosts so hopefully  we can get on the land without causing too much damage. We had 59.75mm /2.35 inches of rain in November.  I can begin to harvest my willow and maybe return to other osier beds that I cut last year. If you are interested in willow to weave with, plant or create a living willow structure now is the time to get in touch.

Barn owl, bats and Fieldfares

The weather has changed and the animals are moving in for shelter,
We have had 104.5mm /4 inches of rain in October.
A barn owl has started roosting in the day in the pole barn, when disturbed it swoops round screeching.
I disturbed a bat in the timber barn it was incredible watching it fold itself in backwards back into its small gap in the beams,I watched a Jay behaving like a green woodpecker, very confusing until I learnt that they bury acorns for winter food. The field fares have arrived. I hope the starlings return to Lackford Lakes soon it is an amazing experience watching and listening to them come down to roost.

Potato Harvest

We had 52.5mm of rain 2inches in our part of Suffolk in August including the hail.
I stuck to traditional varieties of potato growing Charlotte,Wilja and Kestrel but I still got blight it happened so suddenly almost overnight . Luckily the weather was kind so we removed all the tops ,burnt them and lifted all the potato's. The Wilja were disappointing and suffered the most slug/worm damage and don't taste nearly as good as Charlotte's. Overall  not many tubers were blighted and thanks to the rain a good size.

Suffolk Summer

It has been a very wet summer 120mm of rain in July including this hail storm which really hammered the fruit and veg.The bees have continued to struggle and I had to resort to emergency feeding.

We did have a very hot day for the willow weaving workshop, everyone took home the cloche they made, 3 people and three willow structures in one car. The willow cloches are very versatile in the garden and the techniques of weaving can be applied to all sorts of structures.
Please contact me if you would like to book a place on a workshop, We are in East Anglia close to Ipswich.

Willow plant supports workshop August

I am running a willow weaving workshop here at Bungeons farm on Tuesday 14th August , Please contact me if you are interested.


Below is a weaving I have made from hazel and willow prompted by enquiries regarding the Hazel structures 
in the Laurent-Perrier Bicentenary garden at Chelsea. I have evening primroses growing through mine, which always need supporting. In the background are very simple weavings I made about 2 years ago to cover the rain water storage tanks, They are now covered over by evergreen honeysuckle and grape vine.