Our New Life in the Country: Perfick !!

Friday, 13 July 2012

Perfick !!

We are off out today (yes I will do anything or go anywhere to avoid packing), we are off the the lovely Yeo Valley again. The wonderful place where they make all those scrummy yogurts and wonderful eats.

No, I'm not going to tour a yogurt factory, although I must say I would love to....but would I suit a hairnet....I fear not, I'd feel a bit Ena Sharples I think! I'm going there to hear a talk by the very lovely and knowledgeable Jekka McVicar on herbs, planting them, using them and all their wonders.

I was lucky enough to win this second day there from Lucy over at The Smallest Smallholding.

I'm so excited. The first day of Lovely Hubbys holiday from work ready for our holiday next week and we have a day out.......as Pa Larkin would say....Perfick!!

Sue xx

6 comments:

Sooze13 July 2012 at 08:35
Shame our Somerset weather can't cooperate to make the day completely 'perfick' for you, Sue - sorry about that, wishing really really hard doesn't work for everything!!! ;-)

Hope you have (had, by the time you read this) a lovely day.

Sooze xx
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LeeAnn at Mrs Black's 13 July 2012 at 11:24
Oh, how lovely! Jekka is so amazing, sounds like a wonderful event. Enjoy!
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Debby13 July 2012 at 12:35
Beautiful pictures, sounds like a great outting today, I would so enjoy that!! Better get to the packing or you will be running around in your birthday suit
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Jane and Chris13 July 2012 at 13:37
Please take a pair of trousers for that poor man in the top pic, he looks cold and embarrassed!
Jane x
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Compostwoman13 July 2012 at 23:37
Was lovely to finally meet you " in real life" Sue, and LH as well :-)

I really enjoyed the garden tour - could have happily just sat for an hour in the composting area Lol!

Journey back was a nightmare though for me - got home at 8 15 pm :-(

Hope your trip home was ok?
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Michelle14 July 2012 at 02:31
Sounds wonderful!
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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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