Our New Life in the Country: It was worth it in the end...

Tuesday, 26 April 2011

It was worth it in the end...

Well I suppose it was worth it in the end......having my kitchen table taken up with plough parts for four months that is.

Lovely Hubby has managed through hard work and determination,

...to turn this...

...into this.

This...

...into this.

And the best bit.....it all works.

The parts of our paddock that can be ploughed, have had their first ploughing. Not bad for a first ever attempt at ploughing, he even got his lines straight. This townie is turning into a country boy!!

My farmer man in action!! ~

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8 comments:

WinnibriggsHouse26 April 2011 at 08:44
Wow. Definitely a job well done! Congratulations to your farmer man and to you for enduring it!
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Campfire26 April 2011 at 12:15
That's a great plough, and what a good job he has done on it. Mechanics always come into the home, if there's not a specific place to fix them in. If we had a larger place, I'd be happy for that.

I used to have a smallholding of 28 acres in the Peak District, we had a Ford Dexta tractor and I learnt to plough, turn hay. I'm still interested in agricultural equipment now.
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Jane and Chris26 April 2011 at 13:17
WOW!!I'm impressed....(she says drooling over the John Deere).
Jane x
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Gem26 April 2011 at 16:14
Bless him, he looks so chuffed with it and I am pleased to know that you have your kitchen table back yay xxx
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flowertotmum26 April 2011 at 18:22
Definately worth it..he looks so proud and rightly so..iris called him a tracker man..think she meant tractor man..
love
sara,fern,iris
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Unknown26 April 2011 at 19:26
I thought it was new!

Amazing...what a hero.

Sft x
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BadPenny26 April 2011 at 20:58
Yipee ! A lovely & handy hubby !
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landcuckoo28 April 2011 at 09:11
Brilliant work on the ploughing! Not easy getting the lines straight! and the plough itself look s fantastic.
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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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