Ellie
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The reasons for my absence!!!
Well the reason I haven’t blogged for a month is that James and I got married!!! We have also spent a fortnight at the farm (a week pre the wedding and a week post thereabouts!!) so no interwebs access!!!!! The horror!!!! Anyway this means plenty to update on here…. Well in subsequent posts!!! For now…
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A few farm photos
Last weekend I went to the farm with a few gal pals for my hen do!!!! Eeepppp!!! Less than a month to James and my wedding!!!!! Here are a few photos from the weekend!! And yes I made fire…. It took less than James and dad’s three hours and not a whiff of petrol or…
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A few wanderings
Last weekend on our wanders with the dogs we found a wind blown nest!! The construction of nests is truly amazing and so perfect! We also have found our first crops!! Teeny weeny strawberries!!!
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Another weekend of working
We managed to get a fair bit done last weekend despite me taking a pile of work to play with!! James chainsawed up his remaining trees!!!! We waged war on more orchard brambles and nettles and have ended up with a lot more clear space!!! It’s actually going to be a fairly large area!! Phew…
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Last weekend at the smallholding
James and I took a trip to the smallholding last weekend, mainly because he wanted to chop up the rest of his trees!!! I on the other hand took some work with me!!! Upon our arrival…… Mid Saturday afternoon….. I unlocked and did a customary wander round and found this in the bucket we have…
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Finally the corner of the bank is found!!
As well as more slurry pit clearing and tree felling, bench building, BBQing, tent building, and child wrangling we found time to clear the fence and the nettles and brambles from the bank of the slurry pit closest to the tin hut. We took down the wire and post fence and got stuck in with…
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Weekend workings in the pit!!
Whilst my parents stayed we worked hard at clearing more of the slurry pit and Dad started to build a retaining wall for the veg patch that the slurry pit is destined to become, using some of the tyres from the barns!! We have managed to reduce the size of the rubble heap at the…
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Slave labour!!!!
Saturday and Sunday over half term we had Mister Moo and Little Miss Zoo, my niece and nephew staying at the farm with my sister Mouse and my Parents!!! We worked hard and played hard!!! But the slave labour contribution was amazing!!! They moved stones, dug the earth, conducted a plant life biodiversity study, slept…
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More visitors!!
Friday during the day we continued tree felling and slate clearing and we had a quote visit early on in the day from a joiner. Friday afternoon my parents, my sister (Mouse) and her children little Miss Zoo and Mister Moo arrived!!!!! Mum and Dad arrived with a trailer in tow and it was a…
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Once more into the slurry pit
Whilst James and his father were felling and clearing the trees his mother and I spent some time discovering and removing a load of slate from the slurry pit. We think the barn’s old roof was dumped in the pit along with all sorts of other stuff during initial building works!!! Grrrrrr…….. So we began…