Our New Life in the Country: Plodding on through the cold and frost.....

Monday, 6 December 2010

Plodding on through the cold and frost.....

We live in an ever changing landscape at the moment, where yesterday we had mist and mud, today we have thick frost and a heavy icy mist.

On our walks I marvel at the ever changing look of the farm and fields,while the dogs follow the trails of animals that have ventured out long before us. ~

There is a frosty beauty in everyday items and plants, and the air is heavy and thick first thing, lightening slightly as the day gathers strength. It's always a relief to get back indoors, peel away the many layers of clothing necessary to stay out long enough to feed all the animals and clean out the henhouses, and then collapse in a thawing heap with hot coffee and porridge in front of the computer. ~

So I apologise for the sparse Blogging recently, but be assured while I'm thawing out, I am reading yours. ~ Sue xx

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~Kim at Golden Pines~6 December 2010 at 18:53
Sue, your pictures are just beautiful! They look like something out of a magazine!! I also enjoy seeing how pretty everything is with frost on it, but I'm like you, I'm glad when I'm back inside and can thaw out!!

I hope your day has been an enjoyable one!
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flowertotmum7 December 2010 at 18:05
Gorgeous pics...everything has a beauty to it whatever the season..warm up and relax..
sara,fern,iris
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Jan8 December 2010 at 15:58
A hard frost is beautiful, and that looks like freezing fog... but that's lovely too if you have enough clothes on!
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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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