Our New Life in the Country: Signs of Spring

Thursday, 17 March 2016

Signs of Spring

All the signs of Spring are here. There is blossom on both the Almond trees in Nut Wood.

Ginger joining in all the doggy walks, he just loves the sunshine.

Jack the cockerel is extremely frisky in the mornings ... with all the hens ;-)

And Mother Goose is once again broody. It's almost time to pop a few eggs under her to get this years babies.

And of course the sun is shining, the daffodils are in full bloom and it's seed planting time.

Yep ... all the signs of Spring.

Sue xx

6 comments:

The Weaver of Grass17 March 2016 at 14:45
And doesn't it make one feel good Sue?
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Simon Douglas Thompson17 March 2016 at 15:05
It's a much better day than yesterday...next off shift I won't be so lazy!
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Iris17 March 2016 at 16:07
Do you actually get any nuts of that almond tree or is it just ornamental? We have a plum tree (chosen by the builder), but it is just ornamental.
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Happeninguponhappiness17 March 2016 at 17:33
It's amazing what an effect it has on my psyche to see the sunshine! Love the fact that ginger accompanies you on the dog walks :)
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e17 March 2016 at 19:00
Beautiful, and so good for the spirit. Enjoy!
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Anonymous18 March 2016 at 09:44
It's been a lovely couple of days here in Stockport - I am just hoping it stays for the weekend!! Spring is a gorgeous time of year, especially as we seem to wait such a long time for it to arrive. Look forward to hearing about you (or Mother Goose) hatching chicks - is this something you do each year? Have a good weekend. Regards, Louise S, Cheshire.
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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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