Posted in frugal living, grow your own food, pigs, recipes, self-sufficiency, smallholding on 29 February 2008 | No Comments »
It’s wandered through our minds, to keep pigs. Mostly because pigs were obviously kept here, big time, in the past. Unfortunately the set up was clearly an intensive one, with concrete sties and a boar pen; small enclosures and run down. Not our way, but still perhaps some of it could be used. And keeping pigs [...]
Posted in general wittering on 29 February 2008 | No Comments »
happy leap day. I proposed…. a pint down the pub. and had one. and a second just to make sure.
Posted in being greener, frugal living, general wittering, home education, self-sufficiency, tagged mend and make do on 28 February 2008 | No Comments »
My Mum said to me recently that it was good these days that ‘mend and make do’ is back - now everyone is being green. She no longer thinks people will see her as being mean, if she wears something old and worn out, but ‘environmentally friendly’. Of course, we shouldn’t worry about what other [...]
Posted in self-sufficiency, sheep, vegetables on 27 February 2008 | No Comments »
Now finally there is some daylight at the end of the day to achieve some things in - yay!. After home ed things, I wander down and check the sheep, cut some ivy and spoil them, and worry about the lack of grass… it is growing.. but not fast enough yet . Later in the [...]
Posted in house and home, make it yourself, self-sufficiency, tagged peg loom, pegloom, sheep, wool on 26 February 2008 | 2 Comments »
Himself has made a peg loom. It’s a simple affair.. made out of scrap wood (I am informed the base used to be part of our bed… I really hope he means a different bed to the one we sleep on now… 
and some dowelling.
The pegs fit into holes in the base, and each peg [...]
Posted in livestock, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, tagged lambing, sheep on 25 February 2008 | No Comments »
I had arranged to go and help with a small flock during lambing. Giving me hands on experience, a month before our own are due, and they were going to call me day or night, so I could rush over and join in. Good plan eh? apart from the ewes had other ideas.
They all managed [...]
Posted in being greener, house and home, tagged sustainable building on 24 February 2008 | 4 Comments »
In our on going efforts to make the house warmer, we have been looking at replacing some of the windows. We have, unfortunately, single glazing throughout the house. Even worse, the previous owner had replaced some of the windows in a bid to tart the place up before selling, and replaced with more single glazing!
It [...]
Posted in general wittering on 23 February 2008 | No Comments »
Finally we had some rain yesterday - the first in ages, and that seems to have inspired the start of this year’s frog migration.
Although I had already reported the first sighting of frogspawn, earlier this month, now it has all truly begun, a big green gathering of their own
At night, the garden, drive and lane [...]
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