Our New Life in the Country: Farmers Markets and Sheds

Sunday, 21 June 2009

Farmers Markets and Sheds

This Saturday found me at the Farmers Market in Tetsworth and Lovely Hubby at home putting together our new shed. Jason jetted off up the motorway to Preston to help one of his mates celebrate his 22nd birthday, and then he was heading even further up the M6 to visit his Dad for Fathers Day on Sunday.

After a couple of hours at the Market I nipped into Thame to buy LHs reading material for the week, all the Farming weeklies and then it was home to lend a hand with the shed, how he had managed to get so far on his own amazed me....clever boy!!

By the end of the day we had a recognisable shed (that could stand up all by itself).

After a quick inspection by Jemima it was deemed safe to leave until Sunday for the finishing touches.

The picture at the top of this post is of a little egg that we found next to the chicken house, I think someone is going into miniatures!!

Next to a pound coin it gives you an idea of it's size, I'll be keeping this one for posterity.

Sue xx

3 comments:

Sarah22 June 2009 at 09:26
Wow that is small! I love your chick egg cup, it's so sweet. have a great week.
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sharie22 June 2009 at 12:36
It looks like a first egg to me. I remember our bids laying similar ones. They used to call them 'witches eggs' in olden times.
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Sue22 June 2009 at 15:51
I thought that too, but my girls are 18 months old and have all been laying since they were young!

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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