Hairy Pizza lithics

Good morning all.

4 days in a week is just not enough. Caroline and I lost another day on top of the bank holiday with another driving training day and the rest of the week seemed to fill up with all sorts of extras. Somehow we managed to arrange the van service, forklift truck service, 3 wind turbine services and an acid dosing fitting all in a few days. Life is just so exciting!

The bank holiday weekend went by in a rush, all the hopeful plans to cut up a load of wood for the winter wood store in all that extra available time went completely out the window, following all the catching up of jobs on the nursery and the washout that was Monday. Still at least I got the first of the 3 autumn doses of nematodes applied over the whole nursery. The next lot are already here waiting in the fridge for application next week, autumn must be coming up fast.

Our Sunday excursion the previous weekend to Stonehenge was brilliant. Expertly led by Brian our tame archaeologist who provided flint samples, a folder of images of the recent excavations around the sites and a constant narrative helping illustrate the 6 hour walk. We had our alfresco picnic sitting at the top of The Avenue right by the stones but outside the rather nasty builders fence, while hundreds of tourists trooped round the stones themselves on the other side. I had the privilege of being able to cut up my cold slice of pizza with a broken flint blade we had rescued from a molehill deposit on the way up The Avenue processional route. That was probably the first pizza that blade had cut up for over 5,000 years. Since our last big walk there 2½years ago English Heritage have done a brilliant job illustrating what was going on all those years ago by providing themed information boards all around the wider area of the Stonehenge landscape so you no longer really need an experts guidance to get a great feel for the area. Well worth a day out. Check out the National Trust Stonehenge info for several walks.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/stonehenge-landscape/things-to-see-and-do/

We popped into the new visitors centre just to check it out. Very nice, although as we weren’t going to the stones we didn’t need to pay so didn’t get to see the inside exhibition. Understandably all a bit new but seemed to cater nicely for the quick stop tourists, big car park, cafe, gift shop with a good range from specialist book selections to the Stonehenge snow-globes and nice eco friendly loos. A vast improvement on the previous centre. Nice demo of reconstructed Neolithic huts to see, based on the designs unearthed at Durrington Walls a few years ago (starting point of our walk).

Local village inaugural ‘festival’ today (‘Crawleyfest’), donated some stock to the plant stall so ought to pop along to show support. Not quite sure what to expect, stalls etc during the day and some music in the evening, food and drink on tap and the weather looks ok. Hope it’s more organised than the website and advertising. It could be they are after a more exclusive audience. Despite that, I am still going.

Availability

We have a slight lull in flowering stock at the moment after strong summer sales. Fresh stock is g rowing well and the range is picking up again for the autumn surge!
Asters just beginning to show bud and the first occasional flower and looking fresh and yummy.
We have a great range of good looking chunky Agapanthus we are producing for the first time this summer.

Wooden Box Collections

If anyone has any of our wooden boxes ready for collection please do drop us an email and we will pop in and retrieve them over the next few weeks. We can then prepare ourselves for some winter whittling and repairs. Thanks.

Have a good one, from all at Kirton Farm Nurseries