Our New Life in the Country: Relaxing Weekend

Sunday, 7 November 2010

Relaxing Weekend

It really has been a relaxing weekend this time, although we have been busy, there is no great rush to get jobs done, so we have just been pottering from one to another.

Friday saw us in a meeting with someone who is helping to find us a new farm, then we tidied veggie beds, planted some Winter crops and generally cleaned out and looked after the animals. The dogs had long walks and the day ended early with the drawing in of the dark evenings we have now. After warming hot baths and a leisurely tea we settled down to an evening of reading and television watching in front of a roaring fire.

Saturday saw me off bright and early for my Craft Fair, and a brilliant time it was too, lots of money made and some lovely folk to chat too, both stall-holders and customers. Next month Lovely Hubby will be coming with me as he has a new job, manning the kitchen to provide customers with Christmassy fayre and nice hot drinks.

Sunday has been a day of finishing off jobs, cleaning up the house and looking after our landlords doggies as they have been away visiting their brand new grandson....awww!! Now we are about to sit down and chill, before another week kicks off and it all starts again.

Hope your weekend was nice and relaxing too, I think we all need to make an effort in our busy lives to just take things back a step and slow the pace from time to time.

Sue xx

5 comments:

WinnibriggsHouse7 November 2010 at 19:08
That sounds kinda perfect to me. Reward after lots of hard work. Glad the fair went well.
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Jan7 November 2010 at 19:35
It sounds pretty much like a perfect day.
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BadPenny8 November 2010 at 08:14
Lovely - sounds super. I had a god week end too - tiedied my veggie patch & found lots & lots of worms where we used to have very poor soil now it's rich. Sorry hens - I left the worms to do their thing !
I also bought a new skirt one size smaller than I have been doing - horray !
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foreveryoung8 November 2010 at 11:17
Our garden is practically under water today and the hens are learning to paddle! But, the sun is shining so its a rush to get outside and catch up on some clearing up - leaves mostly! You have obviously benefited from such a theraputic week end. Ann x
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Jane and Chris8 November 2010 at 14:43
Isn't it nice to just relax! Once the snow arrives here there is more time to just sit in front of the fire and read/knit/listen to music/watch a movie aaaahhhh....looking forward to it!
Jane 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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