21st November. (Medlar Harvest).

1. See to the dogs
2. See to the sheep - Checked and counted the sheep. Took across some hay.
3. See to the greenhouses - Checked and watered round.
4. Harvesting - Cleared leaves from under the Medlar tree. Picked the Medlars.
5. Break for tea.
6. Greenhouse work - Moved planted from the cold greenhouse. Made a start on installing insulation.
7. Break for lunch.
8. Greenhouse work - Finished installing the insulation in the cold house. Moved the plants back in.
9. Packing up.
10. See to the dogs - Fed the dogs and left them in the garden for an hour. 
11. See to the bins - Put the black bins out for collection.
12. See to the dogs - Put the dogs away for the night.

Timothy - Michael checking over the Medlars.



Notes - A damp and  old day so a good chance to insulate the greenhouses. I still have the hot houses to do.

20th November. (Tidying and Potting).

1. See to the dogs - Fed and watered. Cleaned the kennels. Left in the day run.
2. See to the sheep - Took across some hay. Checked and counted the sheep.
3. Tidying - As it's raining I did tidying up in the potting shed, Took the barrel planters to the mower shed to store for the winter.
4. Break for tea.
5. Tidying - Did some more tidying in the potting shed.
6. Break for lunch.
7. Transplanting - Potted on the Geranium cuttings taken from the center bed of the courtyard. Potted on some pot plants. Checked over the greenhouse heaters.
8. Packed up.
9. See to the dogs - Fed and put away the dogs.

Some of the rooted Geranium cuttings.



Notes - When the weather is not good the dogs use the outdoor run as there is no good shelter in the garden. In the runs they can go indoors and have a bed to lie on.

19th November. (A leaf clearing day).

1. See to the dogs - Fed and watered. Cleaned the kennels. Left in the garden.
2. See to the sheep - Took across some hay. Checked and counted the sheep.
3. See to the greenhouses - Checked and watered round. Took off some dead leaves and flowers.
4. Clearing leaves - Blew up some leaves that had gather by the iron gates between the gatdens.
5. Break for tea.
6. Clearing leaved -  Picked up the leaves I blew together earlier. Blew the leaves off the banks.
7. Break for lunch.
8. Clearing leaves - picked up the leaves from the banks with the sweeper. Blew the leaves from the front drive. Cleared leaves from the North Front.
9. Packing up - Cleaned and put away the tools.
10. See to the dogs - Fed Blonde, Willow has been away with the boss today so left him to feed her when they got back.

The leaf pile.

Notes -  I will leave the leaves in this leaf pile until after Christmas before moving to a permanent home in the compost area. 

14th November. (Removing Ivy).

1. See to the dogs - Fed and watered. Cleaned the kennels.  Left in the garden for a while.
2. See to the sheep - Took across some hay. Checked and counted the sheep.
3. See to the greenhouses - checked round.
4. Checked over the tractor.
5. Break for tea.
6. Removing ivy - Cut back some branches on the fig tree so as to make a start on removing the ivy from the barn wall in the front garden. There were also some climbing roses that had to be cut back.
7. Break for lunch.
8. Removing ivy - Continued to remove ivy from the barn wall. Clean out the guttering. Removed ivy from the Holly tree. I also had to remove some growth from the back of the Holly tree as it was running on the wall of the barn and the guttering.
9. Packed up.
10. See to the dogs - Fed and put away the dogs.
11. See to the bins - Put out the recycle bins.

Notes - The wall looks a little sparse now but the are some climbing roses at its Base so I hope to train them to cover the wall from now on.

13th November. (Ivy trimming)

1. See to the dogs - Fed and watered, Cleaned the kennel. Left in the garden.
2. See to the sheep - Took across some hay. Checked and counted.
3. See to the greenhouses - Checked and watered round.
4. Clearing leaves - Picked up leaves from the front garden with the sweeper.
5. Break for tea.
6. Pruning - Pruned the trees and ivy by the back office steps.
7. Break for lunch.
8. Removed some of the ivy from the barn wall.
9. Packed up.
10. See to the dogs - Fed and put away the dogs.

Before and after trimming.

Notes - I think I may have found out who the VIPs are who are staying here at the moment.

12th November 2018. (Lifting Geraniums).

1. See to the dogs - Fed and watered. Cleaned the kennels. Left in the garden.
2. See to the sheep - Took across some hay. Checked and counted.
3. See to the greenhouses - Checked and watered round. Took off some dead leaves.
4. Sowing - Sowed sweet pea seeds.
5. Break for tea.
6. Lifting plants - Made a start on lifting Geraniums from the south front wall beds.
7. Break for lunch.
8. Lifting plants - Finished off lifting the Geraniums. I'm going to try and over winter them in bags in the garden house basement.
9. Clearing leaves - Picked a few leaves up from the front garden with the tractor and sweeper.
10. Packing up.
11. See to the dogs - Went to feed the dogs but they weren't there so just left the food out.

Note - We have some kind of celebrity staying at the B&B but I don't know who as no one will tell me.

9th November 2018 Taking away the lambs.

1. See to the sheep - Helped the farmers to remove the lambs from the flock. Took across some hay.
2. See to the dogs - Fed and watered. Cleaned the kennels. Left in the garden.
3. Break for tea.
4. Clearing leaves - Picked up some leaves and sticks from around the grounds.
5. Break for lunch.
6. See to the greenhouses - Watered round and took off some dead leaves.
7. Packing up.
8. See to the dogs - Fed and put away the dogs. 
9. Note - They delivered a load of sugar beet for the sheep this morning.

The sheep enjoying the sugar beet.

8th November 2018 - Digging over the Dahlia beds

1. See to the dogs - Fed and watered. Cleaned the kennels. Left in the garden.
2. See to the logs - Carried up seven baskets of logs to fill the box and bucket.
3. See to the sheep - Checked the sheep. No hay has arrived so couldn’t feed them.
4. Digging - Made a start on digging over the Memorial Gardens Dahlia beds.
5. Break for tea
6. Clearing leaves - I had to clear some leaves off the borders before digging.
7. Pruning - Pruned the roses growing up the obelisks.
8. Digging - Finished digging over the first bed.
9. Break for lunch.
10. Digging - Dug over the second Dahlia bed.
11. Packed up - Cleaned and put away the tools.
12. See to the dogs - Fed and put away the dogs.
13. See to the bins - Put away the black bins.

The Jersey Battle of Flowers | The famous must-see annual event

We arrived here in Jersey to find that there was a moonlight showing of the Battle Of The Flowers parade so we quickly booked some seats for the show. It was very interesting for us and I think also for those without an interest in flowers as there were various other performances in the parade such as marching bands and dancers. 

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Welcome to the official Jersey Battle of Flowers website

PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL PAVEMENT SEATS HAVE BEEN SOLD FOR THE MOONLIGHT PARADE

 THERE IS LIMITED PAVEMENT AVAILABILITY FOR THE DAY PARADE 

BUT THERE CURRENTLY IS SEATING IN STANDS A, B, C, D and E. 

BATTLE HQ WILL MOVE TO THE ARENA TOMORROW THEREFORE TICKETS WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE  FROM THE LIBERTY WHARF KIOSK OR AT THE PARADE GATES

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The Jersey Battle of Flowers Highlights from the 2017 Day and Moonlight Parade.

The Jersey Battle of Flowers 2018 will take place on Thursday 9th August and Friday 10th August 2018.   

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First staged in 1902 in celebration of a Royal Coronation, the Jersey Battle of Flowers has since grown over the past century and more to become one of the largest floral carnivals in Europe and without doubt a major highlight in Jersey's varied summer calendar of festivals and events.

This website has been specifically created to give you a flavour of what to expect from one of Jersey's most popular festivals – whether you are a first time visitor to this floral spectacle or a regular spectator.

As and when information is confirmed, we will post on this website, including details on purchasing tickets as well as a preview of this year's exhibitors and floats, a glimpse at some of the other activities and events taking place as part of the parades and an opportunity to share some magical moments thanks to our gallery of images from past to present day.

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Holiday To Jersey.

Today we start a eight day holiday to Jersey which is one of the Channel Islands off the coast of France. We have just gone through all the airport stuff and are now waiting to board the plane which is nowhere to be seen at the moment.