Posted in books, grow your own food, livestock, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, vegetables, tagged fruit, gardening, sheep, smallholding on 26 March 2008 | No Comments »
Our garden is very overlooked, and today the neighbours probably wondered what I was doing, as I spent a fair bit of time just standing in the middle.. looking.
We are rethinking the garden layout. See, when we first came here, we had the idea that the garden would have the flowers, and the fields would [...]
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Two weeks now from the official lambing date, and one of our ewes, Sharona, well, whilst I would not say she has ‘uddered up’, her udder does suddenly seem more noticeable. Typically, maidens, like ours, don’t have much to show first time, whereas old-timers might have a large udder some days before the lamb arrives. [...]
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blowing a hooley in fact.
It started last night …blew hard, but nothing damaged this morning.
Then we had a weird lull complete with sunshine .. the eye of the storm the local weather man said.. and then the high winds returned, only moving from the South to the West now. It was sposed to be getting [...]
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Posted in books, home education on 6 March 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today is world book day. WBD is a charity that aims to encourage kids into reading, and if your kids go to school the chances are high that they will have come home with some tokens. If, like me, you home educate, you can still get the tokens, just by contacting them.
The tokens are for [...]
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Posted in books, home education, tagged trees on 13 February 2008 | No Comments »
After our trip to the library, we went for a walk by the river, and a picnic lunch. Really beautiful at the moment, and this time of year brings a clarity to the light.
We came across a tree on the bank that we did not recognise, with balls of seeds decorating it. Later, consulting our [...]
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When we harvested our parsnips , we pulled a number that were small and weedy (I should do more thinning), and decided to make parsnip wine.
I looked it up in my two homebrew books, and I got excited about one recipe in ‘Fruity Passions’ , which involved saving the water every time you cooked parsnips for [...]
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Last summer we went on a day course from the woolly shepherd on how to process your fleece. We learnt how to scour (wash) the fleece, dye it, card it and peg loom it. We also had a go with drop spindles and a spinning wheel. It was a lot of fun, and also very [...]
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Found a second complete bowl from an old tobacco pipe. Just lying there on the surface of a veg bed. Nothing like a bit of rain (and we have had a bit more than a bit!) to wash out these pipes. We usually find lots of stem bits.. but a bowl is very special. I [...]
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