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  • The Rusty Homestead in July

    Look back over July on the Rusty Homestead.

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  • A Cat-astrophe Day

  • Sunday Social

  • First Days on the New Allotment

  • Balsam Attack

  • Seeing The New Allotment for the First Time

  • New Butcher, Bloods & Weeding

  • Kitchen Gleam & Gaz Oakley Foraging

  • Royal Welsh Show & Brecon Beacons

  • New Village Summer Vibes in the Heatwave

  • Remembrance and Homestead Neglect

  • Highest Recorded Temperature

  • Walk around Miners Cottage Garden in July

  • Miners Cottage Kitchen Revamp

  • Future of the Homestead

  • Living in Canada, Pancakes, Garden Pottering & Cats

  • Chatting on a Chair in the Cottage Garden

  • Day of Unfiltered Slow Living

  • Weather for June 2026

  • Heatwave Lockdown

  • Rose, v. Strawberry Hill

  • Preparing for the Killer Heatwave

  • Goodbye Spring

  • Recovering Slowly: Weeding, Harvesting & Parents

  • The Rusty Homestead: Two Hours in June

  • The Reality of my Health Right Now

  • Time to be Ruthless

  • Goodbye Social Media

  • Off-Grid Water System

  • Planning Ahead for New Plants

  • Legs and Runner Beans

  • Runner Bean canes

  • Family Left Me for a New Life plus Shopping Haul

  • Heading Home in a Heatwave

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

  • Cancelling the TV License

  • Blue Tits Fledge the Nest

  • The Rusty Homestead Timelapse, week ending 23 May 2026

  • First Day at the Gym at Age 52

  • Miners Welsh Cottage Fireplace Revamp

  • Shopping Haul with Personal Trainer Advice

  • A Difficult Conversation, Potatoes & Garden Centre Trip

  • Protecting Potatoes from Frost Damage

  • Losing Direction

  • Transplanting Tomato Seedlings

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