Our New Life in the Country: One Day of Spring

Thursday, 10 March 2011

One Day of Spring

Yesterday the farm was bathed in sunshine for most of the day. The sky was blue and cloudless and you could almost imagine Spring was really here.

~ Today unlike this picture, the sky is grey, there is rain in the air and the place looks dismal. ~ ~ I'm off on my travels again today to visit my Lovely Mum and Dad in Manchester, leaving the farm in the extremely capable hands of Lovely Hubby. He has piglets to inject and the Smallholders Sale on Saturday to prepare for so there's lots to keep him busy. ~ ~ ~ I'll be back and meeting up with LH at the Sale on Saturday to see if our pedigree weaners and Lavender Pekins sell, and see if we can keep our hands in our pockets and not bid for any more animals to share our little patch of Oxfordshire with. Until then I leave you with these images of Spring, let's hope the sun comes back soon. ~ Maud's babies having breakfast in the sunshine. ~ Sue xx

4 comments:

Kim10 March 2011 at 19:34
Beautiful photographs Sue - you get a real sense of Spring from them. Hope you had a good day in Mancs x
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Anonymous11 March 2011 at 13:52
Bon voyage Sue!

All dull and chilly again here today too. Gave us a taste for sun and warmth and then took it away again, didn't she?!
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Jim12 March 2011 at 14:18
Great photos of spring Sue! Yes, you guys are a little ahead of us here in Nova Scotia. Good luck with the 'sale' today!
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BadPenny13 March 2011 at 17:31
Sweet little piggies' botties !
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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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