Our New Life in the Country: A Snowy Walk

Tuesday, 3 February 2009

A Snowy Walk

Jointers Farmhouse in the snow.

Well it had to be done, decorating temporarily suspended and the dog wanting to be walked, but this time I took the camera, luckily there was no-one to take a photograph of me with my Russian hat, layers and layers of clothes.

Best foot forward and all that ...

Come on Mum....keep up!!

Our farm is spread over approximately 5 acres and is surrounded on all sides by our landlords' farm of over 600 acres, so we have plenty of room for doggie walking, as long as we keep to the edges of the fields we have permission to roam and forage. We will have access to another 5 acre field if we need it in days to come.

Snow on the fields.

Sophie by the barn.

Sophie enjoyed it immensely and I came back all relaxed and ready for a days painting.

And the walk continues, more photos later, I'm about to be covered by a dust sheet, painting must re-commence.

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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