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Well another door is made.  What we mostly did today was make a new shed door. Because the old one was not wide enough.. when it’s wider we can move everything out of the cool room shed, which we now need to store apples, jams, wine etc, as we were storing it in the old [...]

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We took the opportunity with the water butts being empty to have a swap around.  We are saving enough rainwater to meet the needs of our livestock and vegetables, but not in the right places.
The large ex-juice container water butt never gets empty, and we use this for the sheep. The pigs have their own [...]

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I was promised rain. the worst day of the week they said, so I planned around it – thawed lots of meat to process, didn’t do any washing etc.  And it was hot, and sultry, as though rain would come.  but it didn’t then the sun came out big time, and I did the only [...]

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I’ve had this jumper for years, and being a bit tatty, but very warm, was my working jumper.  Until they day I accidentally washed it on a hot wash, and then it was far too small, and very thick. Bum.  I shrunk it even further, and recycled it, into a cushion.
On one side the big [...]

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The other day the rayburn had a bit of wobble, and it sharpened our minds to the big hot water plan that we have been thinking about since we moved here, a few years ago. 
The reality is we only afforded this property with it’s nice location and large garden, outbuildings and a couple of small [...]

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I know we shouldn’t have done it … but we did.. we did the same carbon footprint calculator that was shown on ‘it’s not easy being green’ . I knew I would end up ranting at the computer screen.. I knew it would be silly.. and I did, and it was.
We used the figures for himself, [...]

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When we first moved here we discovered the house came with a security light.  The kind of thing that senses movement and then burns out your retina with a blast of white light. Not so much a matter of security either, as a cat walking by, a leaf etc would be enough to set it [...]

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Bit of a shock to get the latest bill … to find our direct debit is nothing like covering it, and needs to be put up by half as much again.  Lots of accusations abound over the leaving on of light switches, wondering if we should use the handy measuring gadget to see if the [...]

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