Posted in general wittering, make it yourself, recipes on 30 November 2007 | No Comments »
.. apart from the December issues, when I become an addict. It’s part of my enthusiasm for the run up to that winter festival thingy… for me the run up to Christmas is the best part, and I have always enjoyed the making and preparing.
I am beginning to think I am part of a shrinking [...]
Posted in livestock on 29 November 2007 | No Comments »
visiting the sheep this morning.. they were all missing! I did that stopped breathing thing…. looked in all the corners of the orchard… then… out of the field shelter they all came - that shelter is just about big enough for two woolly sheep… must have been pretty cosy with four..
ok start breathing again.. fed [...]
Posted in make it yourself, recipes, self-sufficiency on 28 November 2007 | No Comments »
I decided to make a new family tradition… as I love traditions, particularly homemade ones, to start making home-brew on Michaelmas day (29 September) so it will be ready in plenty of time for that winter festival thingy. Beer from a kit doesn’t not take that long - but if you want variety, and only [...]
Posted in frugal living, make it yourself on 27 November 2007 | No Comments »
Putting together an ‘advent calendar’ for our son now, and only have until Saturday to get it together! - This year we are going to use the little boxes I like making out of old Christmas cards, and is not so much a calendar as a heap of 24 little boxes, which he can open [...]
Posted in livestock on 26 November 2007 | No Comments »
checking the animals this morning.. perhaps I was earlier than usual, because there were only two ewes looking at me. Just as I was starting to wonder where the other two were… I spotted the ram and remaining ewe lurking in the field shelter. I interrupted a bit of private time..
they came out looking a [...]
Posted in make it yourself, recipes, self-sufficiency on 25 November 2007 | No Comments »
Today is stir up Sunday, which is the day to make your Christmas pudding.
I have happy memories, as this is a tradition we always kept to as a family. Each child would be sent off to fetch so much sugar, grate a carrot etc, and my mum was chief in charge of the recipe. Now I [...]
Posted in grow your own food, livestock, make it yourself, self-sufficiency on 25 November 2007 | 2 Comments »
we have a whumper.
We call it a whumper as we use it to whump. Other people call it a post driver.. Whatever you call it - it is a wonderful bit of equipment if you need to do any amount of driving posts in. We have done a serious amount of fencing since we moved here.. as [...]
Posted in frugal living, make it yourself on 24 November 2007 | No Comments »
Just started knitting a pair of socks for my son today. Felt quite pleased with myself, as the wool I chose - blue of course.. always has to be blue with him… was recycled. I was sitting on the sofa happily reminiscing to himself:
A great aunt had knitted a cot blanket for my son when [...]
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