Comments on: Water, water everywhere…! http://devonfinefibres.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/water-water-everywhere/ We produce cashmere, mohair and ultra fine wool from our own flocks of goats and sheep. Spend some time with us as we describe the farming year and the joys and trials of living in this magical place. Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:08:48 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: devonfinefibres http://devonfinefibres.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/water-water-everywhere/#comment-31 devonfinefibres Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:36:35 +0000 http://devonfinefibres.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/water-water-everywhere/#comment-31 Hello Rob, Thanks for the encouragement!Are you a local or an incomer like me? Hello Rob,
Thanks for the encouragement!Are you a local or an incomer like me?

]]> By: Rob Hopcott http://devonfinefibres.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/water-water-everywhere/#comment-29 Rob Hopcott Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:09:22 +0000 http://devonfinefibres.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/water-water-everywhere/#comment-29 Lesley what a great blog. I have bookmarked you and will come back often. It's always nice to find a fellow Exmoor blogger. Lesley what a great blog. I have bookmarked you and will come back often. It’s always nice to find a fellow Exmoor blogger.

]]> By: sylvia http://devonfinefibres.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/water-water-everywhere/#comment-12 sylvia Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:16:08 +0000 http://devonfinefibres.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/water-water-everywhere/#comment-12 Lovely blog, Lesley. I will be back for more, especially as I know the area, having lived at both ends of the Link Road and also helped son on his farm at Spreacombe - just another bit of the edge of Exmoor. Sylvia Lovely blog, Lesley. I will be back for more, especially as I know the area, having lived at both ends of the Link Road and also helped son on his farm at Spreacombe – just another bit of the edge of Exmoor.
Sylvia

]]> By: devonfinefibres http://devonfinefibres.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/water-water-everywhere/#comment-11 devonfinefibres Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:46:19 +0000 http://devonfinefibres.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/water-water-everywhere/#comment-11 Thank you to all for your encouragement and kind comments. I hope to share this wonderful place on line with all those who wish to know it. alison - I knew I should have explained about haylage and silage when I wrote about them! Silage is pickled grass, cut in the full flush of growth (May and June), wilted for a day and then baled and wrapped tight to keep out air. Its the main diet for dairy and beef cattle here in the winter. Haylage is cut as for hay ie a lot later, mid July usually here, left to dry for two or three days and then baled and wrapped as silage. It produces a much dryer result becasue the grass is nearly dried out and much older anyway. It's often made for horses.This year we had to turn all our hay into haylage. The weather was so bad we couldn't get it dry enough. Hope that helps! Thank you to all for your encouragement and kind comments. I hope to share this wonderful place on line with all those who wish to know it.
alison – I knew I should have explained about haylage and silage when I wrote about them! Silage is pickled grass, cut in the full flush of growth (May and June), wilted for a day and then baled and wrapped tight to keep out air. Its the main diet for dairy and beef cattle here in the winter. Haylage is cut as for hay ie a lot later, mid July usually here, left to dry for two or three days and then baled and wrapped as silage. It produces a much dryer result becasue the grass is nearly dried out and much older anyway. It’s often made for horses.This year we had to turn all our hay into haylage. The weather was so bad we couldn’t get it dry enough. Hope that helps!

]]> By: Alison http://devonfinefibres.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/water-water-everywhere/#comment-10 Alison Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:34:34 +0000 http://devonfinefibres.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/water-water-everywhere/#comment-10 What a superb start to your blog! Your first post is spine-tinglingly lovely in its sense of traditions and the sense of season and shift; your second is a fascinating echo of the traditional and 'magical', too. I'm certainly not blogged out; I'll be back! By the way: haylage I don't know. Is that hay-silage?? (This is Ota from the OLG, by the way. I blog under my real name and it's all getting a bit confusing...) What a superb start to your blog! Your first post is spine-tinglingly lovely in its sense of traditions and the sense of season and shift; your second is a fascinating echo of the traditional and ‘magical’, too. I’m certainly not blogged out; I’ll be back!

By the way: haylage I don’t know. Is that hay-silage??

(This is Ota from the OLG, by the way. I blog under my real name and it’s all getting a bit confusing…)

]]> By: Denise Newey http://devonfinefibres.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/water-water-everywhere/#comment-9 Denise Newey Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:19:12 +0000 http://devonfinefibres.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/water-water-everywhere/#comment-9 Intersting blog Lesley. Keep it up. Intersting blog Lesley. Keep it up.

]]> By: Leigh http://devonfinefibres.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/water-water-everywhere/#comment-5 Leigh Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:35:47 +0000 http://devonfinefibres.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/water-water-everywhere/#comment-5 Lesley, welcome to the wonderful world of blogging! As the others have said, you've made an excellent start. Very interesting about the dowsing rod. And I love the tidbit about the silage. I hope you find good homes for all your fleeces! Lesley, welcome to the wonderful world of blogging! As the others have said, you’ve made an excellent start. Very interesting about the dowsing rod. And I love the tidbit about the silage. I hope you find good homes for all your fleeces!

]]> By: Judy Sheppard http://devonfinefibres.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/water-water-everywhere/#comment-4 Judy Sheppard Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:17:28 +0000 http://devonfinefibres.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/water-water-everywhere/#comment-4 Great start, Lesley. Very interesting about the dowsing, and glad the water problem was fixed Great start, Lesley. Very interesting about the dowsing, and glad the water problem was fixed

]]> By: devonfinefibres http://devonfinefibres.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/water-water-everywhere/#comment-3 devonfinefibres Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:21:31 +0000 http://devonfinefibres.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/water-water-everywhere/#comment-3 Thanks for the encouragement Helen. I too was surprised about dowsing. One of the "old" ways which are still very common down here in darkest Devon! Thanks for the encouragement Helen. I too was surprised about dowsing. One of the “old” ways which are still very common down here in darkest Devon!

]]> By: Helen Melvin http://devonfinefibres.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/water-water-everywhere/#comment-2 Helen Melvin Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:17:38 +0000 http://devonfinefibres.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/water-water-everywhere/#comment-2 brilliant start! And so interesting! I had not realised dowsing was so mainstream. brilliant start! And so interesting! I had not realised dowsing was so mainstream.

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