tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84689069739540148502024-03-14T11:00:57.490+00:00Our New Life in the CountrySuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04177854521955532744noreply@blogger.comBlogger2242125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8468906973954014850.post-46628045025648506422021-03-17T15:16:00.001+00:002021-03-17T15:16:53.450+00:00How the Story Ended<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6BoRT7uS21ucWuZsG26QqiErvfSwtqvsysYa9jO_N_s07f8zhqpK-bEic42VJlWq_xysr2wYVFylCXicoxtOFahLRuLYc_l5Omx_A_LFZBqYKnVnpVW-22lde5DKcsDYH7cLWQ5bJJzU/s2000/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1335" data-original-width="2000" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6BoRT7uS21ucWuZsG26QqiErvfSwtqvsysYa9jO_N_s07f8zhqpK-bEic42VJlWq_xysr2wYVFylCXicoxtOFahLRuLYc_l5Omx_A_LFZBqYKnVnpVW-22lde5DKcsDYH7cLWQ5bJJzU/w640-h428/1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">After living in North Wales for seven and a half years the country life has come to an end.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Alan decided back in 2018 that he wouldn't be retiring from the day job, and so the time we were able to devote to the land was simply not enough to make it an enjoyable lifestyle. To do this well you do both have to have a real desire to work it together and both love it equally.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">So our hopes and aspirations for the country life were just not to be, so we took the decision to sell up and move on. We have moved to a lovely little town that I have always loved and which Alan has grown to love over the last couple of years. Here we have the best of all worlds, a thriving High Street of local independent shops, a regular street market, riverside and canal side walks, quiet country pubs and small restaurants. Best of all we literally have the countryside on our doorstep and the sea just a twenty minute drive away, and here we are so much closer to both our families ... a bit like where we left back in 2009 really.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://asmallerlifelivingsimply.blogspot.com/2021/03/tales-from-wales-grand-finale.html"><b>A final tour around the house and land.</b></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">So to round it up ... we gave it our best shot, had lots of laughs along the way, decided to change tack and came away with a small profit. Not a bad way to spend the last twelve years. but not quite what we envisioned when I wrote <b><i><a href="https://ournewlifeinthecountry.blogspot.com/2009/01/resourceful-sea-dog-engineer-and-hard.html">THIS </a></i></b> post!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Sue xx</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>Suehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04177854521955532744noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8468906973954014850.post-42018595033685333492019-01-17T11:42:00.005+00:002022-07-28T11:19:34.247+01:00It's Been a While ...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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But if you've been missing my occasional wild and wacky Challenges. The snippets of day to day life, including the odd photo of my furry and feathered friends, I have been blogging at a different location for the last few years.<br />
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Just as I finished the guys found the root of the problem and finally sorted it out. A manufacturing fault on the blue water pipe. That teeny, tiny little hole has a lot to answer for.</div>
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In September Ethel came into our lives, wandering in off the main road and following Alan into our paddock. We got vets and farmers advice and treated her wounds, meaning for one weekend at least, she was 'the best dressed sheep in North Wales'.</div>
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She is currently off with the tup ... and some of Will's sheep ... on fresh grazing, and after being scanned to she if she is in-lamb will be coming back to us in the next few weeks. If she has not managed to get pregnant and provide her own company for the future, the plan is to see if we can get a couple of lambs of our own to join her on our hillside later in the Spring.</div>
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So it's goodbye for now from Our New Life in the Country ...</div>
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Mavis had already had hers and was busy in front of a roaring fire sorting out her feet, and making sure that Dad had rearranged her beard and eyebrows to her satisfaction.</div>
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My favourite gift on Christmas morning was a box made up for us by my older son, which as well as containing yummy things to eat and brilliant items for daily use, included things from my childhood, that had been discovered tucked away in my ex's house and passed on to Simon for giving to me ... saving it for Christmas was a brilliant idea ... it made my day.</div>
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Back in May during this years mini holiday, we went to The Black Country Living Museum (<b><a href="http://ournewlifeinthecountry.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/the-black-country-living-museum.html">see here</a></b>), when we bought our tickets we converted them, free of charge, into a year long pass. So when an email pinged into my box saying that the museum was celebrating Christmas through the ages it seemed like too good an opportunity not to go again and make good use of the ability to get in 'free'. </div>
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The outside of this one was my favourite, something about the roof to the extension slanting in the opposite direction to the main house and yet it still looking totally sturdy. Every house had <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">people in period costume making Christmas gifts or foods, and </span>roaring open fires to keep them warm.</div>
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The interiors were wonderful with swathes of festive Christmas greenery.</div>
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Adding another string to our bow ... and making good use of something that we are working to clear from the path up the edge of the woodland ... Holly sales are going very well.</div>
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The day started with Alan going to down to make us a cup of coffee, only to find copious mounds, splats and puddles of doggy sick. Christmas presents strewn all over the conservatory ... and the cause of the sickness epidemic ... missing chocolate Santa's bought for the grandchildren!!</div>
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So the washer was put straight into service washing dog bed liners and towels, two very guilty looking pooches didn't know where to put themselves and Ginger the cat ... who is the only one who could possibly have knocked the bag over containing the presents ... was his usual 'I'm a good boy aren't I ' self.</div>
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Much cleaning, present wrapping and little jobs later we were suddenly distracted by the sight of five sheep running past the conservatory doors, then tucking into our laurel bushes near the shed. We pulled on our wellies and then spent an hour herding the very energetic sheep this way and that until we managed to get them contained in the paddock.</div>
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We thought they were Thomas' sheep, the farmer that owns the field opposite so we gave him a ring, he turned up half an hour later with a trailer to collect them. As it happened they weren't his sheep at all, the sheep I thought were missing from his field had just been hiding in the trees there. Will, showed up while Thomas and his brother were chatting to Alan, so three Welsh farmers and a Scottish engineer had a bloody good laugh about things and set the world to rights. </div>
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We got back from an afternoons Christmas shopping in Llandudno for stocking fillers and a spot of lunch yesterday to find this in the garage. It<i> was</i> in a cardboard box but when Alan picked it up the bottom literally fell out of it as it was so soggy. It had been raining all day and perhaps the delivery guys van was a bit wet ... our garage floor was certainly moist!!!</div>
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It's our annual Christmas 'thank you' present from the company Alan works through for the day job. They downgraded from the Fortnum and Mason ones we used to get a couple of years ago, but these are just as lovely.</div>
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Alan has been busy recently, both in his workshop <i>and</i> doing the day job, which he now does from home, but last week he found time to do some running repairs to the henhouse.</div>
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The house has sat there in all weathers and in constant use for the last few years, and the thing that gets used the most by lots of little feet and sits there in all weathers ... usually rain ... is the ramp the birds use to get into their house. It had started swelling as it absorbed more and more of the rain we get here in not so sunny North Wales, and basically it was about to fall to pieces.</div>
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So using the old one as a pattern, he used wood he already had to manufacture an exact copy and last weekend, after it had had many, many layers of varnish to weatherproof it, he fixed it in place on the henhouse. </div>
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What a waste, unfortunately it didn't smell too good so it's been chucked. I'm being really ruthless with this big cupboard clean out, after all if we haven't eaten these things through two 'eat down the cupboards' sessions they are never going to get eaten are they and looking in the cupboards and seeing them 'full' is no good if you need to actually <i>want</i> to eat the contents!! </div>
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So this time I have gritted my teeth and gotten rid of quite a few jars and packets of out of date and unused foods, mainly fermented things actually, so that shows me we do not like them no matter if a recipe says they are needed, once that recipe has been done the leftovers don't get used up, and sometimes I don't even get round to making up the dish because when push comes to shove we don't really fancy the dish enough to actually do it. ... so no more buying of them. </div>
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After a spot of lunch I'll be back to work in the kitchen, there's just one final cupboard to do. Alan won't be able to find anything in the kitchen cupboards when he gets back tonight ... he'll be glad when this snow is gone and I can get out and about again and the place stops getting re-organised<b> :-)</b></div>
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Today we have the same snow, but now with a crunchy layer of ice on top, that hopefully the glorious sunshine will start to dissolve soon, but I'm not holding my breath .... it's freezing cold out there.</div>
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The blue skies were wonderful as I walked over to the paddock with the dogs but Suky ran through the gate and then stood still on three legs as if to say 'I'm not getting ALL my feet <i>that</i> cold'. She couldn't wait to get back to the snuggly warmth of Dad's big jacket on the sofa, left behind while he works away from home today</div>
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The next job of the day was to take copious buckets of hot water to thaw out the chickens drinkers, everything was frozen solid. Then I had to thaw the catches to the poly and net tunnels and battle my way through the doors so I could get inside to dislodge the vast weight of snow that was starting to make the roofs dip in a most alarming fashion. I have a sad feeling that despite my covering the polytunnel netted windows with a layer of polythene, and draping fleece over the spinach and kale I will be losing most of my plants ... oh well I did my best.</div>
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Which means every morning all I have to do, is to get it out of the fridge so it can come to room temperature while I sip bleary eyed at my first coffee of the day. Add a splash of my favourite almond mylk, give it all a good stir and breakfast is a four minute blast in the microwave away.</div>
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It keeps me full until lunchtime and stops me getting the nibbles mid morning which my previous couple of slices of toast were doing.</div>
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What's your favourite Winter breakfast warmer? Alan's is still two poached eggs on toast.</div>
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When Alan prunes, he prunes with gay abandon and nothing is safe, so down came most of the little tree and bushes that made my little shed look like a fairy tale shed nestled in the wood. Now it's exposed I'm sad, it looks bare and un-protected .... <i>it will grow back he said ... it was already perfect I thought ... you bloody vandal !!</i></div>
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Anyway I digress ... in a determined effort to make good a bad job, the smaller branches have been cut up as kindling and some of the bigger branches have been put to a very good use.</div>
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A free and totally homegrown Christmas Tree.</div>
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I left them to dry off a bit on the Aga so they wouldn't leave damp marks on the wall and while they warmed up I found some green string (thanks Dad your string stash is still coming in handy), pulled out the one box of Christmas decorations that survived our big decluttering session over the Summer. We had chosen to keep only the most favourite of Christmas bits and pieces, the things that meant something to us and that we will be happy to see year after year. I had enough for a quick tinsel strewing of the living room .... and to decorate the pile of twigs ...</div>
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... that were about to be turned into a Christmas Tree.</div>
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It didn't look much at first, twigs and string hanging from a single screw in the wall that usually holds my 'cottage fireside' picture.</div>
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But the fairy lights glammed it up, as only fairy lights can.</div>
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And with the addition of a bit of tinsel, some of our most treasured Christmas bits and pieces picked up over the thirteen years that we've been together, and a wrapping paper covered flowerpot filled with Christmas crackers ...</div>
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... it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas<b> :-)</b></div>
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Sue xx</div>
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