…and back to the farm. Christmas and New Year festivities done and dusted: now it’s time to try and remember what I was doing before I left for Europe in November. I’ve caught up with the accounts, paid the bills, sent out most of the copies of the book ordered while I was away, and begun to get the lawns back to some semblance of presentability. The rest of the farm is a different matter however. The truffi\u00e8re is not too bad: nice brul\u00e9es appearing and the grass not too shaggy, but the vineyard’s looking in need of a trim. The olives appear to have managed a reasonable fruit set while I was away, but it’s too early to speculate about what the crop might be — and if it’ll be more than the birds can eat. Now I have to confront irrigation issues (though it is raining as I write), get the mowing under control and do some weed-eating round the bianchetto and Burgundy truffi\u00e8res. Time to start selling books, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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