Spring Equinox: enjoying three seasons in one day!

Last week saw the arrival of the spring equinox in the Northern Hemisphere. The UK enjoyed an unseasonably warm day, including Wales’ warmest spring equinox on record, as the early impacts of the coming climate chaos continue to make themselves felt.

Naturally, here at The Secret Acre, we took the opportunity for a summer BBQ. Our earliest on record, after none at all in last year’s continuously unseasonable cold and wet.

We ended up enjoying three seasons in one day! A summer BBQ on the warmest spring equinox, having dug up the last of the winter leaks, to char on the BBQ coals, and eat with an excellent romesco sauce.

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Our 2025 Wedding Anniversary theme… we’ve got wood!

Stop sniggering at the back.

As regular readers know, back in the mists of time, we decided to dump the traditional dull wedding anniversaries here at The Secret Acre, in favour of our own list of anniversary themes of things we like, that would make celebrating each year fun.

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Let them eat… puffballs!

As I write this, the UK is being battered by the second named storm this winter. Already ground sodden all last spring has returned almost instantaneously. It never really went away.

The year has basically been too cold and too wet. In record breaking amounts thanks to climate change, and the moving, possibly collapsing Gulf Stream.

England has suffered its second worst harvest on record because of the weather. If you think the damage from growing number of storms and floods in bad, just wait until we hit global food shortages.

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Garden of Delights

There is usually something to surprise you in the garden at The Secret Acre.

Earlier this year, Emma was joined by a very curious pheasant in the Greenhouse.

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Barnstorming 

It’s been a quiet few weeks at The Secret Acre having been unexpectedly struck down by pestilence and plague. I spent the hottest day of the year, shivering under a duvet, unable to get warm. Annoying when there is so much to do. Hopefully we can start getting back to the harvest soon.

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We’re Jammin’

And we hope you like jammin’ too… because another thing that seems to have enjoyed our unseasonably wet and cold spring/summer period is the soft fruit. Or at least some of it!

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Season’s Greetings from the 2023 Museum Miners!

Wishing all our friends a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Like many people, we are no longer sending Christmas Cards, in favour of donating the money to charity instead. You have to follow our posts here for all our news through the year.

So we thought we’d end 2023 then, with these pictures from our ‘Museum’ anniversary year!

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