Our New Life in the Country: In the corner of the room........

Friday 7 September 2012

In the corner of the room........

In the corner of the living room ...... a little bucket sits on it's own little stool, soon it will be joined by more little buckets and some much larger buckets and then maybe they won't live in the living room but be moved to the spare room, where they will bubble away together. A happy family of bubbling buckets.

But for the moment we are quite enjoying the quiet 'burlup burlup' noises coming from our very first batch of homemade cider.

Lovely Hubby spent about four hours the other night chopping, mashing and crushing the first of the apples to come off our huge old apple tree, there are literally hundreds more and we have spied a neglected apple tree over the fence that is enticing LH to a spot of apple scrumping..... naughty boy!

While the dogs are away (in kennels for the weekend) and it's nice and quiet, I think I know a man who will be climbing over a fence very soon!!

Watch out, watch out, there's an apple thief about.

Sue xx

2 comments:

Jane and Chris7 September 2012 at 18:50
We have our berloop berloop buckets in the dining room,then they are moved into the pump room.
Whoa! The fumes hit you first thing in the morning!
Jane x
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Everyday Life On A Shoestring8 September 2012 at 10:55
Just found your blog via Down to Earth. My husband's tried cider making the last couple of years; it's been an exciting process but the end result has been, well, pretty disgusting! I hope yours goes much better and look forward to reading about it. Our apple tree has got barely any apples this year, so the cider-making experiment is on hold!
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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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