What to do.. a miserable day, so we went to the reclamation yard. I love it there. I just love all those made to last old things – the cast iron fires, aluminium watering cans, mangles, doors, gothic window frames, granite slabs, foot scrapers.. and so on.
Officially we are table shopping – our dining room [...]
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rain, reclaim yards and rogan josh
Posted in general wittering, house and home on 7 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
rayburn days
Posted in general wittering, house and home on 2 October 2009 | 1 Comment »
Although we haven’t had any rain for ages, it’s certain colder.. actually it’s piles of jumpers all round the house weather. What I mean is.. we get up, it’s cold, jumpers on, then the sun comes out.. warm.. jumpers off, then sun goes in cold, then we cut some logs, warm…
But the Rayburn has been lit [...]
the shower project
Posted in general wittering, house and home on 19 August 2009 | 3 Comments »
In January 2008, we rashly decided it would be nice to have just one room that was presentable.. a sanctuary from the damp, sag and ruin that is the rest of our home, and set about removing the wall paper, only to find that behind that the supporting wall wasn’t – that is not only [...]
as one door closes…
Posted in being greener, frugal living, fruit, grow your own food, house and home, self-sufficiency, smallholding, vegetables on 16 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
last steps in the big freezer plan
Posted in chickens, general wittering, grow your own food, house and home, livestock, make it yourself, pigs, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, vegetables on 19 July 2009 | 4 Comments »
another rainy day, so, after a late and pleasant start, drinking coffee with family etc, we declared it an indoor sort of day, and did a little DIY necessary to accomodate our new freezer.
Yes, we have saved enough to buy the new one, moved everything around as this bigger freezer uses about a third of [...]
move around
Posted in chickens, grow your own food, homebrew, house and home, livestock, recipes, self-sufficiency, smallholding, wild foods on 14 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Now that the cockerel run is free, we cleaned out the house, and moved everyone on one. So the six LS chicks are now in the cockerel run, and looking like they appreciate it it a lot, they were pecking about, lying in the shade, avoiding each other, huddling in groups and generally doing what [...]
bath planter
Posted in general wittering, house and home on 29 April 2009 | 4 Comments »
Last month we dragged the old cast iron bath up out of what will be the pig run, nearly killing ourselves in the process!, and I have now planted it up.
I bought a climbing rose, in the hope of it scrambling up that wall and looking all lovely…, and I put in the pot of [...]
fridge shed
Posted in house and home, livestock, pigs, sheep on 21 March 2009 | Leave a Comment »
yet another beautiful day – it’s hard to remember that they wont keep coming.. although as soon as the sun goes down, its March and cold again.
Today himself and our son were repairing the fridge shed. The previous owner used to run a dairy from here at one point, and built a shed to house a [...]
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