Our New Life in the Country: We feed them and they feed us......

Saturday, 6 June 2009

We feed them and they feed us......

It's all working out very well, we feed the chickens and the chickens feed us. It was a gorgeous, simple breakfast of scrambled eggs on toast this morning.

We have our first order for a dozen eggs (it'll be delivered on Wednesday night Mum!!). Other orders are on the way as Lovely Hubby has let it be known at his place of work that the chickens are a laying.

It's a horrible drizzly overcast day here in Oxfordshire, such a shame because it's our village fete at 2pm this afternoon, to be opened by the lovely Susan Hampshire (who lives just up the road). Fingers crossed it dries up in time.

In the meantime we are getting on with jobs inside the farmhouse, LH is busy tiling in the kitchen and I am preparing stock for next weeks Farmers Market here in the village.

Have a lovely weekend wherever you are.

Sue xx

3 comments:

landcuckoo6 June 2009 at 15:13
Loving the chook news, so pleased they are doing well and you are enjoying your scrambled, fried, boiled and poached offerings!
Hope all dries up for you this afternoon, have a good weekend
Sarah x
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A Green and Rosie Life6 June 2009 at 15:33
The amount I get from egg sales pays for the girl's feed which is great - and there are stil masses of eggs to eat. We had scrambled eggs and Mexical chorizo (HFW recipe) for lunch. Yum

Rosie x
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Anonymous8 June 2009 at 12:34
there is nothing like a home laid egg - yum!

Rose 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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