Our New Life in the Country: Bountiful Basil and Special Friends

Friday 10 July 2009

Bountiful Basil and Special Friends

One of the herbs that I love the most is in abundant supply this year.

I have 5 pots of the glorious stuff dotted around the kitchen and the stall holders at the Farmers Market meeting the other night were saying how well theirs is doing.

I can see lots of lovely tomato and basil pasta sauce coming up and lots of pesto being made in this kitchen.

Overnight a magical friendship developed, with Baby, the Hedgehog leaving the safety of his little carrying home and taking up refuge in the arms of Rosie the Rabbit! I came down to a slightly more crowded windowsill.

Aw ...we all need a special friend.

Sue xx

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Pipany10 July 2009 at 12:45
We are beginning to live on fresh basil here too Sue. Isn't it wonderful? Love that all your new girls are settling in and more being added 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.

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Sue xx

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