Wet and cold

   Winter finally arrived with a bump. There has been a few of days of cold, frosty and wet weather and that has finished off anything left in the garden and poly tunnel that were not winter crops. So, no more sweet peppers and chili's. It also means that my tidying up came to an abrupt halt as I hunkered down in a nice warm dry house!
   So not a lot done. Cut a couple of outside cauliflowers before they were spoiled by the rain and colder weather. In the poly tunnel the sweet peppers and chili's have now been cleared out. Outside I made one of the vegetable plots a little bigger. This is to compensate for the loss of ground under the oak tree. The cabbages continue to develop well. They are starting to hearten up. The outside turnip/swede are slowly swelling but those in the poly tunnel look wonderful with nice large green leaves but the root is not yet swelling. One good thing that the arrival of the cold weather has done. The cabbage white caterpillars have all been killed off!
  In the animal arena the chickens are now back to laying reasonably well. There has been one day when seven eggs were laid but on average the daily count is four. The sheep, particularly the rams, have been a pain. They are determined to get amongst the ewes and one of the blighters jumped the fence. I had a fun forty five minutes rounding up the ewes with the errant ram and sorting them out! The geese are enjoying playing with a couple of dog play balls that I put in their water. I spotted one in the pond with the ball in its beak! 
   The days are short and getting shorter every passing day. Sunset is now around ten past five and sun rise around seven thirty. Christmas is just around the corner!