Our New Life in the Country: Do Not Read if you Are Easily Upset

Friday, 19 August 2011

Do Not Read if you Are Easily Upset

Do not carry on reading if you are easily upset - really!

Mr Fox came to visit yesterday. Or perhaps it was a couple of foxes. The electric fence had shorted in the torrential rain we were having, the dogs were inside keeping dry (you can't blame them).

Outside a massacre took place.

Death count

8 Lavender Pekin Bantams

3 Hylines

2 Speckledys

1 Welsummer - 'Bourneville'

The other girls (and boys) are completely shell-shocked. The houses were looking very empty last night. Our last remaining Welsummer , Fudge, is devastated, she has lost her three sisters one by one over the last year, they went everywhere together.

Today I am on Fox watch, the fence is on and working, Maud is loose in the Orchard so she can protect her piglets (they still fit through the stock fence so escape from the pen on a regular basis but remain in the Orchard luckily).

The farm is a quiet place.

RIP my beautiful girls, I'm SO sorry your end was so brutal. I'm sorry there are no words left in me today.

Sue xx

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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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