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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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or in our case – half a pigs head.  Whilst in principal, as a meat eater, I agree with the notion of eating ‘everything but the oink’, one of the reasons we bought half a pig was the chance to have a go at cooking a pig’s head, that did not previously belong to a [...]

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You may have noticed, that I am a meat eater.  I don’t say this apologetically, as I am a thinking meat eater, and am happy with my decision. I have thought about it for most of my life. I grew up in a household that encouraged us to think about it – we always kept [...]

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Tomorrow, himself will take a portion of lamb hotpot, left over from tonight’s supper, to work for his lunch, and that will be the very last of our lamb.
Because I’m nerdy, and this was our first own raised lamb, I kept some figures.  He killed out at 20.8 kg, and the cost of slaughter and [...]

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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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We are on  a mission at the moment to use up the contents of one of our freezers. 
Reasons: because if we don’t eat what we produce, what is the point!, because if we can turn off one freezer that will save us electricity, because we really should be in the position of having freezer space [...]

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it rained so much yesterday, that the newly set up IBC, which was only set up to catch the overflow from the larger water container, was already full.  Excellent.. I am eyeing it up as a water source for when we get ducks. Only goodness knows when that will be, as we seem to be [...]

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While I’m on the theme of being tight    living frugally, here is something else I did recently. I took an old pair of worn out pyjama shorts , and remade into some soft cotton hankies and a hair scrunchie.
I know scrunchies are old fashioned or something, but I have long hair, and these are very [...]

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