I’ve been blaming the cat. In the middle of the night I could hear him, somewhere in the bedroom, scratching.. always scratching. scratch scratch scratch. Sleep is limited at the moment, with checking on the-ewes-who-have-no-intention-of-lambing, without added distractions of a flea ridden cat scratching in the night. Abandoning my principals of no nasty chemicals, I [...]
Archive for April, 2008
death watch beetle
Posted in house and home on 15 April 2008 | No Comments »
grass
Posted in grow your own food, home education, house and home, livestock, self-sufficiency, sheep, vegetables, tagged sheep, sowing, vegetables on 14 April 2008 | No Comments »
Glorious sunny day today, two loads of washing dried, yay for outdoor drying… and not having stuff hanging damply on the clothes horse in the kitchen…
Nice Idle morning, my Mum came round, (as we are havng our ‘Easter holidays’ from home ed at the mo) we drank coffee, compared notes on the progress of our [...]
the pit of hope
Posted in grow your own food, self-sufficiency on 13 April 2008 | 1 Comment »
We have a pit of despair. Named after the one in The Princess Bride, it is in fact a nasty heap of rubble we found in one corner near our outbuildings. We thought at first we could clear it up, but it became obvious it was originally a hollow that has been filled in with [...]
thoughtful sheep
Posted in general wittering, livestock, self-sufficiency, tagged lambing, sheep on 12 April 2008 | 3 Comments »
OK that might seem like an oxymoron,.. as sheep are famous for not being the brightest of animals.. but they are not entirely stupid.
For a start, sheep can count. Well only to two. Well technically only to ‘more than one’ - but its still counting of sorts. When one of our ewes, Sharona, had triplets, [...]
ruined junk tastebuds
Posted in frugal living, general wittering, recipes on 11 April 2008 | 5 Comments »
I think my tastebuds are ruined. The ones that used to like rubbish.
I have always cooked. I can’t even remember when it began… perhaps beside my mum playing with spare pastry.. I dunno, just brought up cooking.. its natural. And not leaning on ready made food certainly helps you through skint times. But I used [...]
untidy living
Posted in general wittering, house and home, livestock, self-sufficiency, sheep on 10 April 2008 | 2 Comments »
When I was a child, we would often visit the small farm belonging to friends of my parents. They had kids the same age as us, and we always looked forward to the visits. The place was always fascinating to me - just because of the chaos.
My family were deemed a little alternative in our [...]
lamb therapy
Posted in grow your own food, home education, livestock, self-sufficiency, sheep, vegetables, tagged lambing, lambs, sowing on 8 April 2008 | 2 Comments »
Although a great and exciting time of year, this is also a time of hard work and stress. After the disappointing events of losing two of our first lambs recently, the time consumed that has to be found and replaced, the potato planting, seed sowing, house repairing, new veg patch digging, fencing and making, which [...]
eating radishes in the greenhouse
Posted in grow your own food, vegetables, tagged seeds, sowing, vegetables on 7 April 2008 | No Comments »
A certain amount of normality has returned, albeit with regular checks to Sharona and Rogan the new lamb, and to the two ewes not let lambed. Still feel as though we are holding breath a little… and without knowing if there is any point.
Back to seed sowing, the experiment of sowing peas direct was a [...]
topics
-
Top Posts
-
Recent Comments
-
knitting WIP
-
harvesting this month:
Archives
-
visitors
- 12,802 to date
