Our New Life in the Country: Christmas is in sight ......

Saturday, 22 December 2012

Christmas is in sight ......

Christmas is in sight ..... a lot more clearly for Lovely Hubby now!!

We've just got back from two nights at Mum's in Manchester while he had his eyes lasered in the City Centre, something I had done five years ago. It's worked perfectly, as he keeps demonstrating by reading things out to me. The most obscure things that make me laugh out loud. Nice to have a man that can see me as clearly as I can see him!!

It was a lovely little break with a trip around the German Market that was literally right outside the doors of the clinic and so nice to spend a little bit of time with Mum before Christmas.

Now we're home, the dogs are back from the kennels, the chickens are tucked up in bed and the log burner is made up and just awaiting a match to coax it into life and it's time to welcome Christmas into the house in a big way with a glass of wine and a few early Quality Street.

It's nice to go away, especially for such a good reason and it was as lovely as always to see my Mum, but it's always nice to be tucked up in your own home, warm and cosy after a few days of driving through the wettest weather I've ever seen.

Sue xx

12 comments:

Purrfect Haven22 December 2012 at 18:10
wow.. great and scary and wonderful all in one! It has been delightful visiting you throughout this year. We look forward very much to more time shared in 2013! and here is wishing it to be a peaceful, healthy and happy new year. Love Darcy, Bingley and Helen xxx
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Unknown22 December 2012 at 18:26
Have a wonderfully peaceful festive time!!!
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ted and bunny22 December 2012 at 19:06
a "few" Quality Street???
Is that possible????
xxxx
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rusty duck22 December 2012 at 20:21
Oooh scary indeed. Something I'd like to do, but haven't quite dared. I'd love to ditch the contacts forever. So glad it's worked for you two. Jx
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Jane and Chris22 December 2012 at 21:42
HA! I knew you had a stash of Quality Street!
Jane xx
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syrahsuzie22 December 2012 at 21:46
OH had it done 10years ago and no regrets - but I'm a big coward!
I've loved following your adventures this year. I'm looking forward to next year and your forever home.
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bonsaimum23 December 2012 at 07:43
Merry Christmas to you :)
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Jo@awholeplotoflove23 December 2012 at 08:56
Glad it went well. Hope you have a good Christmas.
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Unknown23 December 2012 at 10:07
WISHING YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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BadPenny23 December 2012 at 15:21
Great Christmas present - the gift of sight
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Anonymous23 December 2012 at 21:56
Merry Christmas Sue and Lovely Hubby xx
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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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