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  • Allotment Garden on Tuesday 10 November 2026 is 7.2°C / 45.0°F
  • Allotment Garden on Monday 09 November 2026 is 2.2°C / 36.0°F
  • Allotment Garden on Sunday 08 November 2026 is 7.5°C / 45.5°F
  • Very Relaxing Week but there are Fireworks and Flames
  • Bonfire Night
  • Gwyncy
  • Allotment Garden on Saturday 07 November 2026 is 9.8°C / 49.6°F
  • Allotment Garden on Friday 06 November 2026 is 8.6°C / 47.5°F
  • Allotment Garden on Thursday 05 November 2026 is 7.3°C / 45.1°F
  • Allotment Garden on Wednesday 04 November 2026 is 9.0°C / 48.2°F
  • Allotment Garden on Tuesday 03 November 2026 is 9.5°C / 49.1°F
  • Allotment Garden on Monday 02 November 2026 is 8.6°C / 47.5°F
  • Very Relaxing Week but there are Fireworks and Flames

  • Gwyncy

  • Morrisons Shopping Haul, Mountain Walk and Night Drive Problems

  • The Rusty Homestead Weather Records

  • Going Back to London & Lidl Shopping Haul

  • Homemade Quince Jelly

  • New Relationship Reveal & October Homestead

Journal

  • Very Relaxing Week but there are Fireworks and Flames

    A very relaxing week as the temperature starts to drop but the week goes out with a bang.

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  • Morrisons Shopping Haul, Mountain Walk and Night Drive Problems

  • The Rusty Homestead Weather Records

  • Going Back to London & Lidl Shopping Haul

  • Homemade Quince Jelly

Days Out

He Ran 7 Miles… Before His Mum’s Kettle Boiled

Sending a Friend down a London River in a Coracle

Kensal Rise Has A Story – North West London local history trail

Exploring Kew Palace & the Historic Kitchen Gardens at Kew Gardens

Ken Nutt and A Passion for Fuchsias

Health & Fitness

  • I Blame the Car Seat

    Everything was going so well. Moral of the story is, clean your own car.

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  • New Butcher, Bloods & Weeding

Cottage Life

  • Homemade Quince Jelly

    1.5kg Quince Unwaxed Lemons 900g Sugar Cooking Thermometer – Chop the quince into chunks and …

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  • Making Elderberry Syrup

  • Heatwave 32*c, Shopping Haul & Taste Testing

  • Kitchen Gleam & Gaz Oakley Foraging

Daily View of The Rusty Homestead

Allotment Garden on Tuesday 10 November 2026 is 7.2°C / 45.0°F

Allotment Garden on Monday 09 November 2026 is 2.2°C / 36.0°F

Allotment Garden on Sunday 08 November 2026 is 7.5°C / 45.5°F

Welcome to Sean’s Journal

After 25 years working in television in London, I swapped city life for the mountains of South Wales.

Here I share my everyday adventures, from growing fruit and vegetables at the Rusty Homestead to cooking, exploring Wales and enjoying a slower pace of life.

Do a Little, Do it Often.

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