Our New Life in the Country: All is calm............

Saturday, 26 September 2009

All is calm............

Milly watching in amazement as Rosy shares her tea.

Somedays, between the madness that is usually life here on the farm, all is calm. The animals get on with each other, the jobs go well (and get done) and life is all good. Other days it all goes to pot, but yesterday was one of the good days.

The cats sunbathed and slept the day away, the dogs rounded up the chickens and played with them and with each other. The chickens laid their eggs in the nesting boxes and mooched about the manure heaps and the orchard. Lovely Hubby got on well with his fencing and finding us a supplier of straw for the pigs and I got half the polytunnel weeded, all the chicken houses spring cleaned, the washing done and even the shopping done.

And after all this we still had time to go out for a meal and have a relaxing evening together. Fingers crossed for something similar today!!

Hope you're having a lovely weekend.

Sue xx

4 comments:

Stacie26 September 2009 at 16:01
I'd say you had a very productive day for sure!

I love the idea of your dogs and chickens running around together.

I hope at the end of what I am sure will be another great day - you can put your feet up and rest. It is surely well deserved!

Have a great weekend!
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Anonymous26 September 2009 at 17:14
sounds like a lovely day!

Have a great weekend :-)

Rose XXX
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Pipany26 September 2009 at 18:32
yes, we've just finished drinking a relaxing glass or two of wine on the courtyard thanks Sue. Hope tomorrow is a good one x
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pumpkin28 September 2009 at 05:09
it was lovely to read your blog today, i too have chickens and i find it soo amusing to watch their antics with my dog blossom especially when they run round the garden after her.

love your blog please take alook at my girls on pumpkins blossom and bees 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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