Our New Life in the Country: Picking up tips.......

Saturday 24 April 2010

Picking up tips.......

Hubby getting advice from someone who's been around gardens for a while.

While we were away we kept our eyes open looking for tips and good ideas to help us back on the farm. We met some lovely people and got good advice. And now fired up and ready to go, we are straight back to work.

Sue xx

4 comments:

WinnibriggsHouse24 April 2010 at 20:21
Perhaps you could give your new friend a good meal for all his advise. He looks like he could do with one!
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~Kim at Golden Pines~24 April 2010 at 21:26
I think that gentleman on the right is as good to get advice from as some of the others, and probably better!!
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Robin25 April 2010 at 11:44
I just recently found your blog. This post made me laugh out loud. Adorable! Thank you for sharing your experiences with us!
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BadPenny25 April 2010 at 12:56
right oh - you can help me then... last night the hens took themselves to bed very early & one was in the nesting box & not roosting on the bar. Then I found a shell less egg on the ladder. All had laid in the morning. Found another soft egg in the garden today. I'm thinking they'll be beginning their moult & not lay or lay soft eggs - am I right ? Abby thinks the hen maybe broody - in which case what do I do ? !!!

Thanks Sue - good to have you back !
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This was my Blog, just me writing about our day to day life learning all about and then living the smallholding life. First we started on a farm in Oxfordshire, then we moved to a smaller place in Berkshire (both in England) and then we found a place of our very own at the bottom of a hillside in North Wales. Along for the ride were all our various animals, and we ended up with just our dogs, Suky and Mavis, our cat Ginger .... who secretly thinks he's one of the canine gang, a sheep called Ethel who wandered in off the road and stayed... and a roving band of egg laying chickens that live cheek by jowl with the local wildlife.

We grow our own fruit and vegetables, selling surplus plants and edibles at the gate. We sell the eggs the chickens lay, we reuse, recycle and rethink ... and life ticks over at a pace that suits us.

It was simply the wild and wacky ramblings of a 50 something townie turned country girl called Sue, who lost her heart to a sailor and started a new life in the country .... many years ago. On a path that took us from Cumbria to Oxfordshire, to Berkshire and then we found our home at the bottom of a wet and windy Welsh hillside by a busy main road.

Pull up a chair, grab a coffee and relax into a world of dogs, cats, chickens, polytunnels and veggies with the occasional grass munching sheep thrown in for good measure.

Sue xx

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