Our New Life in the Country: Slowly but surely...........

Tuesday, 17 February 2009

Slowly but surely...........

Slowly but surely, in lots of little ways, this house is starting to feel like home.

Pictures are being hung on the walls. A place is being found for most of the things being unpacked and we are starting to remember where things go.

A huge breakthrough last night was the big pine wardrobe which is to the be main storage for my business was finally assembled and put in place in my new workroom. Now I can begin to sort through my stock and prepare for the forthcoming Farmers Market. And even more importantly I can begin to assemble the core stock for my website 'Lavender's Blue 2' currently under construction.

The house will be used to as a backdrop for all the photos of stock, so obviously this has had to be put on hold until we had some photogenic corners, but we are almost there. Today we will be finishing off in the main bedroom and doing a spot of weed pulling in the orchard. But in every spare moment I will be tweaking our little finished areas until they are 'just right'.

Have a good day.

Sue xx

6 comments:

Perfectly Lovely17 February 2009 at 12:59
Its so nice when you get to the stage where your house turns into a home, I cant wait to get to that stage with my own little nest,(its a long way off that though) You have given me inspiration...perhaps there is some light at the end of that plaster dust filled tunnel!lol!! Jen x
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landcuckoo17 February 2009 at 13:33
Fabulous, so pleased things are coming along for you. Just seeing your scales there reminds me I must send Hubby up in the loft to find my set which I was saving for when the kitchen was finished and that was quite a few months back now!
Looking forward to seeing your Lavender's Blue website, I think you will have things that I like! Just a hunch, you know.
Take care, Sarah x
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Knittings Nice!17 February 2009 at 18:46
Just came across your blog...looks very interesting.....nice reading....will follow and be back. Teresa
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Helen17 February 2009 at 21:11
Hello there Sue .... I always feel better after paying you a visit ... thank you!
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pigeon pease18 February 2009 at 01:26
Agree with helen......loving your blog
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MelMel18 February 2009 at 14:43
How lovely to hear from you.....so pleased you are settling in....thats good news...:>)
Your home will soon be just that, A cosy retreat, like you have always been there.....oh and I LOVE the AGA!!!

Thank you for the good wishes!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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