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Our bridges are (mostly) ready to help us get over ourselves! 🌉 Just need to add ramps so it’s smooth rolling with the wheelbarrow. What seemed like a simple span in our minds turned into quite the engineering feat – but it’s great to see them finally bridging the gap between expectation and reality!
Our bridges are (mostly) ready to help us get over ourselves! 🌉 Just need to add ramps so it's smooth rolling with the wheelbarrow. What seemed like a simple span in our minds turned into quite the engineering feat - but it's great to see them finally bridging the gap...
The footbridges now have handrails.
The footbridges now have handrails.
Frog watching the bridge construction works.
Frog watching the bridge construction works.
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Sementes de felicidade
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Projeto de Reflorestação
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Autumn is coming
October is gearing up to be a big month for our plot. We will be doing all the necessary earthworks, install swales and lakes, and plant a lot. We are also going to be some home improvements, so we have an efficient way of keeping the house warm throughout the winter...
Free the oaks
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Dill vs Fennel
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On humility
As a kid, I was a smartass. I think it got less annoying to others as I got older, but it's still there on the inside: the tendency to learn about something, assume that it's Right, and that therefore others are Wrong.As they say, though: "It ain’t what you don’t know...
Courgette vs Pumpkin
Although we tend to think of these two vegetables as being very different, and cooking/eating them in distinct fashions, the reality is that they are both from the same family (gour/Cucurbitaceae), and genus (Cucurbita). So, in reality, they are quite similar....
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Forest School – an update
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