Our New Life in the Country: A Long Week

Sunday, 10 July 2016

A Long Week

Phew .... it's been a long week.

What with the changeable weather, painters showing up/not showing up, builders picking things up, guys dropping off chippings, non-stop watering in the polytunnel, clearing up after escaping chickens who love to rummage around in the chippings that Lovely Hubby has placed so carefully around the plants, and the general day to day hectic-ness of living with two hyperactive Jack Russells and a seemingly permanently hungry Pug, and if you top it all off with a cat that keeps bringing in mice for the Jack Russells to chase around the chest freezer, I mean never have you seen two dogs so obsessed with a chest freezer and what lurks beneath it .... I need a lie down and a long cool, very alcoholic drink!!

By the way that's not Suky in the top picture ......

... this is Suky !!

Sue xx

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e10 July 2016 at 08:06
Such a cutie your Suki! I hope you get a moment or two and a nice drink...
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bonsaimum10 July 2016 at 09:11
I know how you feel. Suki is a cutie. :)
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Sue10 July 2016 at 09:20
By the way Suky's name ends in a Y .... she is not Japanese!!

Her name means 'lily' in Hebrew the same as my name.

It is also a Scottish term for a little one that sucks up or cuddles up to you. She was named in honour of my lovely mum in law Jessie ❤
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Rambler10 July 2016 at 09:34
Judging by her woebegone expression, it's been a long week for Suky as well. Things do sound rather hectic up your way, so I hope Sunday will be a day of relaxation for you, feet up, watching the tennis (or Formula 1 from Silverstone, as in my case) with a punnet of strawberries and a long cool alcoholic drink in hand. Oh yeah, and a gang of fairies to walk the dogs, water the plants and do all the other jobs around the house!
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Rachmad Imam Tarecha10 July 2016 at 12:30
The dog in the picture look so sad @.@
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Vera10 July 2016 at 12:38
Just caught up with your recent blogs, and especially liked your post about your poly tunnel. We are thinking about getting a poly, and looking at what you are doing in yours has fired our enthusiasm even further!
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Jackie10 July 2016 at 14:44
Suky is such an expressive dog. It looks as if she is saying "I know your week has been hectic, how about we sit and have a cuddle."

God bless.
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myshabbychicvintagefrugallife10 July 2016 at 15:33
Lol ,that is so funny i have an image of the dogs chasing mice round the freezer lol , Never a dull moment with you and your pets lol x
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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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