Our New Life in the Country: Over to you............

Friday, 29 January 2010

Over to you............

This weeks posts will be slightly different,

inspired by you and your questions to me.

What would you like to know about our lives?

What interests you the most (the animals, the land, the veggies, the lifestyle....)?

What have you missed through joining as a follower more recently, that you would like a quick recap of?

What (or who) would you like to see a photo of that I may not have published yet?

Send a question, any question, in the form of a comment, or an email directly to me, and I will base a post around your answer.

I will spend the week (Monday to Friday) answering the questions on here and then at the end of the week the questions and their writers, will all go into a hat (probably LH's lovely flat cap) and a drawer will be made for a little goody bag of Lavender Loveliness from my Lavender's Blue farmers Market business.

Looking forward to seeing your questions......fire away!

Sue xx

7 comments:

BadPenny30 January 2010 at 09:33
Oh my goodness - I ask you so many questions already which you very kindly answer.

My first is - what is that green stuff in the picture ? !!!

Do you give the hens greens / salad leaves to eat and as I have no green stuff left nor any hope of it returning so should I be supplimenting their diet ?

We have a small area of green stuff at the back ( ha - hubby not let off mowing quite yet ! ) so once we start cutting it again - shall I give the clippings to the chickens ?

There you go ! my question !

My first interest in your Blog was the hens but now I am interested in your veggies as I am a novice who is trying some veggie growing for the first time.

Thanks Sue !
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Just Original30 January 2010 at 17:34
Ooh!

In your bid to go self sufficient, how do the household bills add up in comparison to your previous life!

A really practical question I know.

Vanessa x
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Helen30 January 2010 at 17:55
I have been wondering about the 'Lavender' part of your life .....
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Anonymous30 January 2010 at 20:00
... but Sue, it's going to take more than a week to think of a good question!
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Charlotte30 January 2010 at 23:15
I love the chickens!

I would like to learn more about exactly how many you have, how it started, what it was like to get your first ones.

And a picture of you cuddling a chicken!!

Love Charlotte
xxx

ps You don't have any rabbits do you? If you do Humphrey says forget the chickens, he wants rabbit stuff!!
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resewn sally31 January 2010 at 16:54
Hi, I'd love to know how you go about growing, harvesting, drying your lavender.
And also, what has been the most challenging part of chicken keeping for you?
We are moving this year, and i'm hoping to keep chickens, and grow some veg. My ol rescue dog is a risk to chickens, so i think we'll need large space for an outdoor run for them, so they're safe from her. My gran had chickens when i was little, i loved them, my favourite was Lucinda, she was the matriarch.
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spicyapplepie31 January 2010 at 20:27
do your chickens bully you? Mine always make a huge noise when I step out my back door, hoping I will bring them some tasty treats!
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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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I use it to chart the day by day, week by week, year by year goings on in mine and Lovely Hubby's life. In it I also express my views and opinions, and say what I do and occasionally how I do it. I am hoping that this will prove to be a useful reminder for myself of how we did things, as we continue in our learning process.

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