Our New Life in the Country: Leaving the farm......

Thursday, 25 March 2010

Leaving the farm......

We're leaving the farm in the capable hands of my Mum and Dad for the weekend, while we zoom up the motorway to Cumbria and Scotland.

We're spending Friday night in Cumbria and then Saturday night in Peebles visiting LH's Mum, she's not very well at the moment, so we're hoping a visit will do her good.

It also give my Mum and Dad a chance to get re-acquainted with the animals. They've known the cats for years.

Love the pigs to bits.

Have yet to meet the new girls.

Know all the tricks the old girls get up too!

And will be aided and abetted by the lovely Rosy.

Sophie will be coming with us to visit her Granny Jessie. The animal feed bins have all been labelled, so hopefully they will all get the right grub, if not knowing our lot they wouldn't mind a bit! Instructions and phone numbers have been printed out and if I can persuade her to, maybe Mum will be a guest Blogger, if not I'll be back next week with more news and escapades from this mud pool we call home.

Have a great weekend.

Sue xx

8 comments:

Charlotte25 March 2010 at 14:45
Hope the weekend does everyone lots of good... xx
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Anne in Oxfordshire25 March 2010 at 15:39
Have a wonderful weekend Sue, I am sure your farm will be looked after :-)
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jackanne25 March 2010 at 16:17
Hello,its not raining here in Cumbria. Have a nice time. hugs xx
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Simone25 March 2010 at 17:59
Have a lovely time. It would be great if your Mum could be a guest blogger! I love your mud pool by the way!
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BadPenny26 March 2010 at 08:19
have a lovely time in Cumbria - I'm sure mum & dad will cope even if the pigs & hens swap food !
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Molton Hearts26 March 2010 at 12:47
Its raining here in deepest Devon, so hope the weather is better 'up north' !! love your blog, its just great,

vicki
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Charlotte26 March 2010 at 13:59
Me again - finally wrote a blog about your lavender goodies... only two months or so late...
xxx
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Sarah27 March 2010 at 14:40
Hi!

I've popped over from Cottontails Baby!

We too have chickens and cats, but not pigs or a dog, but two guinea pigs!

I love pigs, they always seem to be smiling :) Love dogs too!

Hugs, Sarah 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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