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Wednesday, 11 January 2017

Such a geek

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For Christmas I received a wireless weather centre from Ste.  I love it.   There is an outside section which is attached to a high p...
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Tuesday, 10 January 2017

Thank you Steven

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The other day Kev over on An English Homestead  was talking about the wooden items he'd made for Christmas.  They were fabulous and in t...
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Monday, 9 January 2017

Preparing for winter....small steps

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There is a cold front coming towards the end of the week so I’m making plans to ensure we don’t get caught out.   The last thing we want to ...
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Sunday, 8 January 2017

Planning the coming year’s harvest including freebies

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I love freebies.  I've just been given these seeds from my lovely Dad who has given up his allotment and asked if he can help out on mi...
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Saturday, 7 January 2017

Chicken and egg

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We have been extremely lucky as our chickens have not gone off lay which we expected over the winter.  We’re getting plenty of eggs each da...
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Friday, 6 January 2017

2016 Oil, electricity, water and other bills plus a few 2017 plans

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Sorry for no photos on this one, it's more about keeping records! In our first year in the house we’ve used 4500 litres of oil and it c...
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Thursday, 5 January 2017

Carrots hate me

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I can only laugh.   This is the only carrot that is visible to the eye, from my 2016 harvest.   I have never ever been able to grow carrot...
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Wednesday, 4 January 2017

Recipe books and geese

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First on the list is using my abundance of recipe books. I love them. However I am terrible for finding something online, normally BBC good...
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Tuesday, 3 January 2017

Loving the January feeling

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All too often, I hear people saying how miserable January is, it's ages until pay day, nothing to do on dark nights, bored etc etc. I d...
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Wednesday, 21 December 2016

Christmas preparations and home raised meat for the table

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I'm still chasing my tail but my head is just above water and I'm happy as Larry.  Whoever he is. So this weekend started off wit...
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