We grew a lot of seed cereals at Mulu Barley, (gebsseed and wheat; Sindi. We stored this seed in, gwoteras which was a locally made seed store. We grew this seed on the farm, but we didn’t sell it but would store it until our staff.
own store of grain had run out. I seem to remember that it was measured out in kunas which was a locally named amount. This was made of basketware about two armfuls wide and one armful deep. I think we bought the grass seed from a firm that had it. Grass seed. I think this was a very fine and would have been too difficult to harvest. However, I seem to remember that there was a governmental place you could buy the seed from, so that is probably what we did. Nobody grew oat seed. I think we thought you could make oatmeal from oat seed and therefore we could grow oatmeal for porridge, but we were quite wrong and had to go on growing wheat seed for porridge which I seem to remember I did not like.
So, it is rather nice to be able to buy oatmeal for making porridge and oatmeal biscuits, here in Hemyock all those years later.
But I make sure I have my five-a-day pieces of fruit. Here in HEMYOCK can be apple, banana, /or pineapple and even strawberry or plum for breakfast. How lucky I am. And how useful it is to be able to deep freeze so many items of food.
Useful ways of weather forecasting. The red sky at night is the shepherd’s delight. The red sky in the morning is the shepherd’s warning.
This works much better than the BBC’s method of weather forecasting, which I find incredibly boring and usually wrong.
They try to be far too clever but wrong with their weather forecasting. Iras sometimes happens.