Our New Life in the Country: Upwards and Onwards

Friday, 25 February 2011

Upwards and Onwards

This weekend is already looking like it's going to be a busy one. I have just got back from posting yet another lot of Ebay parcels, with a car laden down with animal feed, as the truck was hitched to the trailer ready for a 'poo pickup' we went to town in the little Fiat 500. Three huge sacks of Pony Nuts, three bags of Layers Pellets, two nets of pony carrots and a months supply of dog and cat food later it's looking perriously close to the ground, poor little thing.

Lovely Hubby has now set of for the 'poo pick up' (manure for the heaps, for those 'not in the know') and I'm off out to clean out all the chicken house (more poo!!) before it starts raining. We have a meeting this afternoon about our future on this farm and then on Sunday we go for a meeting about our new farm and a marathon measuring up session of the house, offices, barn and land.

The pictures are of the lovely Archie, surveying his territory around Lotties piglets' new pen and taking things in his stride, just like we are trying to do.

I'll be back on Monday with news of how it all went. I hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Sue xx

6 comments:

Justine25 February 2011 at 14:08
oooo, this is spooky; I read your blog quite regularly (but haven't posted before for which, apologies), but I'm a few posts behind and only managed to catch up today. Then it dawned on me that I actually bought a magazine (Period Living Jan issue) from you via eBay the other day without knowing it was you. How weird is that?!
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BadPenny25 February 2011 at 17:18
Good luck x
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Josie Crafter25 February 2011 at 18:55
Dear Sue
Oh I'm so excited about your new farm and can't wait to hear more about it! I just know you'll get along marvelously as you're both so very resourceful. I'm also rather smitten by Archie cat - so handsome !
Thank you for your comment about your wardrobe - wow! The position you're in now is what I aspire to with my own clothes - the freedom of less is so inviting !!
Happy weekend
D x
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Vintage from the Village26 February 2011 at 12:01
Hi Look foward to hearing all about the farm.
My Ebay has gone mad this week as well - good ey!
Have a great weekend
Sue x
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Anonymous28 February 2011 at 03:12
Good luck with all the plans for the future Sue. Fingers crossed it's all sorted by now.
P xx
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La Tonantzin1 March 2011 at 19:24
heeeey SueCat!!
I really loved your blog. I lived in a farm with may family, all my life, and I believe than I share all that hapiness and good life, like you do...
Thanks for share! :D
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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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