Our New Life in the Country: Rested and refreshed....

Tuesday, 31 May 2011

Rested and refreshed....

We've arrived back from our break in Scotland all rested and refreshed.

While we were away lots was accomplished on the farm, lots of vegetables planted and best of all new life in Chicken World. Thanks my Mum and Dad and to our son Jason for taking such good care of everything, when you have a farm and livestock it's vital to leave in safe hands and we did....the safest...THANK YOU.

Back tomorrow with more news of the new family in Chicken World.

I'll not bore you with lots of holiday snaps, just a few relaxing photos from Dawyck Botanic Gardens, just outside Peebles where my lovely Mum in Law Jessie lives.

We are rested, refreshed and raring to go. The new challenge starts today, I have to go out and take stock!!

Sue xx

6 comments:

Unknown31 May 2011 at 22:36
Glad you had a lovely time Sue.

Sft x
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greenthumb1 June 2011 at 00:14
I am glad you had a great break away, my sister in law who has a farm in New Zealand, away has the same trouble of finding someone to look after here place.
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Jane and Chris1 June 2011 at 01:05
welcome back, we missed you!
Jane x
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jo1 June 2011 at 06:57
Glad you both had a great time...come on now back to it!!!
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Alison1 June 2011 at 07:53
Welcome back Sue, glad you had a good time x
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Gem1 June 2011 at 13:57
Welcome back, so pleased to hear that you had a good break : ) xxx
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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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