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netherfield

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Nether Holbrook Farm, Rutland. Shepherd, gosherd, keeper of hens & other livestock. Heritage fruit orchard. Growing & preserving my own organic food. Interested in art, history, landscape, nature, gardening & rural life. Owned by emus. #RoseWednesday 🌹

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 1h

pumpkin pie

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A rainy morning in Uppingham market square

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Toffee apples made with Ellison's Orange dessert apples picked this afternoon. A traditional Bonfire Night treat 🔥🧨
🍽 #HomeCooking

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 18h

A lovely evening at @north_luffenham village #GuyFawkesNight celebration. A huge bonfire, sparklers, mulled wine & fireworks. Even the rain stayed away though it was very mild. Back now for baked potatoes & bangers & a rare treat - homemade Ellison's Orange toffee apples!

netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 23h

The pigs runs are belly deep in mud now & hairy pigs like kune-kunes soon get covered in it. I spent a few hours with some spare pallets & made a couple of platforms for them to stand on above the mire. They seem pretty popular (the pigs have full access to the mud if they want).

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 1d

Children would make effigies & ask for small donations that were sold to buy fireworks and/or sweets. They would make them up to a week in advance to try to earn as many pennies as possible before Guy Fawkes night on 5th November 🧨

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 1d

House of Ypres
A.Y. Jackson
1917

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 1d

such a shame. I know which one I prefer 🧨✨️

netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 1d

Whatever happened to 'penny for the Guy'? Ubiquitous in my childhood. Effigies of Guy Fawkes dressed out in old clothes & stuffed with straw touted around in an old pram, wheelbarrow or handmade go-kart. A friend called it an extortion racket run by small children! Happy days 🧨

Image Credit: National Library of Wales Geoff Charles Collection

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 2d

In the grey light of an overcast morning, a warm glow from late season apples, waiting to be harvested. This is Pope's Scarlet Costard. A rare but beautiful variety. Raised as a red sport of the old Medieval apple Costard by William Pope of Welford Park, Newbury early 19th C. 🍎🌱🍂

A view of bright red oblong ribbed apples covered in dew

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 2d

Ethereal sky as the light fades at the end of a grey windy day. The last ash leaves clinging on to the bitter end

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Pink sunset sky with waxing moon

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 4d

The last of the Horse Chestnut leaves. Falling fast now 🍂🌱

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 5d

this one spans the Welland Valley floodplain & watermeadows

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 5d

A few good pubs locally to warm the cockles as you go too (George & Dragon, Seaton for example)

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 5d

.. & then a sight to lift the spirits. On the way home a moody view of the Harringworth to Seaton viaduct. What a treasure. 🧵end

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 5d

Some good news to end my wander. The little patch of Winter (Trumpet) Chanterelles have started growing down among the leaves. I will return in a few weeks to see if there are enough for a tiny harvest. Freshly picked Chanterelles on toast are worth waiting for.....

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 5d

A reminder that while the soil is ancient in most worked forests, the trees are ephemeral. Back down the escarpment now & a few more fungi to enjoy. A faded Purple Brittlegill, Blusher, Rosy Bonnet & the beautiful, golden Stagshorn on a dead stump.

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 5d

Instead of searching for fungi friends I turn away & wander off through another section cleared a few years back & now overgrown with brambles, hiding a once thriving patch of hedgehog mushrooms, now also lost.

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 5d

.but I am shocked to encounter a familiar tract of Birch & Oak which has been cleared since my last visit. Only a few tall, thin, Oak remain. The trees I know & love gone (even the one with baubles) & the rich area of fungi churned up by tyres. An overwhelming sense of sadness

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 5d

Through the carpet of leaves there are treasures to be found. Part of the joy of wandering through the woods involves looking for fungi. I know the places where, in a good year, edible varieties lurk. It has been very dry but new life is emerging. Here, an Ochre Brittlegill

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 5d

Onwards towards the sight I had come for; my favourite part of the wood, the grove of Beech trees. Nothing beats the sight of a group of mature Beech trees in autumn. The copper, gold & green colours of the leaves are simply magical. A pause to look up in awe & wonder 🍂

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 5d

Up the escarpment on a narrow track through deciduous Larch, their yellowing needles carpeting the still dry ground. In the distance dogs bark & race through the undergrowth before being called back to their owners. Here it is quiet apart from the rustle of wind through the trees..

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 5d

A rare mast year for the Sessile Oaks the ground is carpeted in acorns. I collected a handful to grow on at home. I already have young Pedunculate (English) Oak trees grown from acorns so it will be good for a few of our other native species to join them. Pockets full I walk on..

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