Our New Life in the Country: A Brilliant Weekend

Monday, 6 September 2010

A Brilliant Weekend

We had a brilliant weekend down in Dorset, luckily the weather was with us and the sun shone for most of the day.

I met and chatted to Mark Diacono, the Head Gardener at River Cottage and owner of Otter Farm, the UK's only climate change based farm. He is a fellow Blogger, so you can guess what we talked about!

Lovely Hubby had his annual chat with Hugh and got our farm diary for next year signed by the man himself.

We watched as Ben Orford made me a Spurtle.

And then at the end of a lovely day we trekked up the hill, using the excuse of needing a photo for the Blog as a way of getting our breath back.

We gave the seaside a miss on Sunday as the rain was coming down, and after a yummy home-cooked breakfast at our gorgeous hotel we set off instead on a leisurely drive home.

The diet kicks off today over at Sue and Joans' Diet Diary....wish us luck!

Sue xx

6 comments:

Vintage from the Village6 September 2010 at 10:44
Fab day out, I wonder when Hugh will have another series on the telly ?
Sue x
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landcuckoo6 September 2010 at 20:14
Shame about the weather on sunday but looks like you had a lovely time anyway! Good luck with the new eating plan, will be over to check progress.
Sarah xx
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Threadspider6 September 2010 at 21:07
What fun!Looks like a good day out. Good luck with the diet-I will keeping my fingers crossed.
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BadPenny7 September 2010 at 08:35
What is a spurtle !
Glad you had fun x
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Jak7 September 2010 at 08:39
Glad you had a good time. What is a spurtle?
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H7 September 2010 at 15:59
I'm so jealous of your river cottage moments! I've been hanking after another river-cottage book for a long while...glad the sun shone!
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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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