Our New Life in the Country: Meanwhile over at .....

Sunday, 9 October 2016

Meanwhile over at .....

We were out last night, out with the other grown up people, and didn't get home until waaaay after midnight. It's not something we do very often, but when there's a new marriage in the family to celebrate you celebrate :-)

Anyway the late bedtime ... it was 2am once we had had coffee and settled after the long journey home, well it seemed long driving for an hour and forty minutes in the dark and then the strange later start to our day, luckily the dogs were happy to lie in after being disturbed so late in the evening ... has I think left me in a thoughtful frame of mind.

My usual brisk food, film, or book related post over on my other Challenge blog turned into musings from the mind, so I thought I would link to them on here and share also on here ...

... my new mantra, motto, whatever you want to call it.

Over on my other blog today ..... is this.

Now I'm off to clean out the hen house and chop some wood .... my musings frame of mind won't live through that ;-)

Sue xx

4 comments:

Agnieszka9 October 2016 at 13:23
I really like and admire that approach. There have been periods in my life when I had to do without many things, it really teaches you about what's important in life, doesn't it! At the moment though, we are settling in our new house, our very first own house and it takes a lot of hard work and money to make it what we want it to be. But we're doing everything ourselves and try to re-use and re-purpose things as much as possible.
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Living Alone in Your 60's9 October 2016 at 14:02
I have a friend who try's to draw me into a discussion every Christmas regarding gifts received from my children. I'm sure there is an inference between the cost of the present received and love behind it. Cheap pressie=no love. I ignore all ploys now. Its strange how some people think you have to have lots of things to be rich in life. I'm glad I know differently.
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The Weaver of Grass9 October 2016 at 16:21
My thoughts are running along the same lines Sue and I am just about to do a blogost
post on the same kind of subject/
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Pensive Pensioner10 October 2016 at 08:44
Those quotes are so very true. It beats trying to catch your own tail with regards to work/earn/spend every time.
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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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