Digging in

Doing a bit in the garden at the moment. A new slab path was laid on Saturday and a few other bits and pieces have been completed. The groundwork for a new patch of lawn was completed. Only one more rambling section of purple flowering heather to shift. Things proceed. The spell of dryer weather we’re having helps.

Our daffs have pushed out of the soil, heavily in bud and there’s a twenty metre double line of tulips muscling out of the western lawns to join the crocuses. Buds are breaking and the first annuals to germinate and break soil. My bees seem to have over wintered successfully, and I will be paying them a visit shortly, when the temperature stays above ten Celsius and the foragers are active. It’s looking good for spring this year. There have been no big volcanic burps this year or last, so I remain optimistic.

About fourteen of my planted walnuts are also showing roots and shoots. Indeed, all over the smallholding the process of new life goes on.

The only sour note at the moment (apart from a semi-permanent beef with our Canadian banks) is our farm insurance policy. Which has gone up by two hundred euro’s a year. By a third, over 30%. Which is strange, because we’ve never made a claim, yet the price of our current insurance is skyrocketing. I don’t get it. Maybe they just don’t want the small farm customer, and perchance we’re not profitable enough for them. Oh well, time to hit the phones for a new quote.

Am having a quiet chortle at the recent referendum result, where the vote went almost 80% ‘No’. Which was pretty emphatic, although Sinn Fein have publicly said they want best two out of three. Others in the Irish political class clearly have their noses out of joint over this issue.

The clauses in the Irish constitution the globalists wanted to change are to protect the rights of women who choose to stay home and raise families. The globalists behind the push want to get rid of the ‘women’ clause, get them into the workforce and paying tax for the political class to piss up the wall, inflate the cost of housing even further and make big bucks for the corporates. The native Irish seem to have other ideas, despite being ridiculed for not seeing the referendum for what it was.

There’s also a call to investigate the NGO’s behind the referendum. Questions like “Why are these people getting so much of our tax money?” are being asked publicly. Because said NGO’s, no matter who they claim to be for, are certainly not on the side of the average Irish voter.

Like I say, there’s too damn many of these NGO’s throughout the western world. We need a major cull of NGO’s, not of cattle.