Our New Life in the Country: Money in my pocket, space in my cupboards.....

Monday, 29 August 2011

Money in my pocket, space in my cupboards.....

We're just back from the Bank Holiday Monday car boot sale in the neighbouring village and what a busy morning it's been.

I now have money in my pocket and space in my cupboards.....what more could you ask for. I did have a wander around and bought three lovely enamel bowls, but apart from that I stayed firmly behind our table making money, not spending it. We are well into our Year of Living Simply and it's proving to be uplifting in lots of ways. When we come to move house, hopefully in the next couple of months there will be less to pack and the cupboards will already be nice and clean and clear, a lovely added bonus to all this sorting.

We are having one last final push with the sorting out this week in our efforts to jettison the extras, there is one last Car Boot sale of the season at Warborough, the lovely village where the folk are friendly and the sun usually shines.

How did you spend your Bank Holiday Monday?

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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