Ellie
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Tree felling
Thursday and Friday over half term James and his Dad felled the three leylandii!!! Hurrah bye bye vile giants and hello view!!!!! Three….. Two…. One….. Gone….. Hurrah!!!! Hello view from the lounge window now!!!!! And a few photos of the tree feller and his site foreman!!!
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Quotes and more clearance!!!!
Wednesday, we met the architect who will hopefully be signing off our property at the end!!! Very interesting man to meet and we found out a little more, for example a better idea about how long the building has been awaiting finishing!! As well as some general goss about the previous owners!!! Oo the intrigue!!!…
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Trail cams
James has bought himself a trail camera for using at the farm. Over the half term week he set up the camera in various spots around the farm and caught a few images!!! The first night at the gate post we caught several images of the neighbours cat!!! Then out in the field….. We caught…
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Half term antics on the farm
We managed to get back to the farm on the Tuesday of half term after James finished work and after I had had a day of baking cakes for all our planned visitors and our lovely cat sitter!! So two plum loaves, two Victoria sponges, and one large chocolate cake later we packed up the…
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More plans!! And a bit of shopping
We went up to the lovely village of Bromyard to look at stoves and cookers on the Saturday of the bank holiday weekend!!! I am currently liking the Esse in is purple colour!!!! Mmmmm bigger oven space, large wood hatch, bigger capacity for radiators and hot water, because this will be our main heating system!!!…
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Plans!!
Between big and small fields we have a holding pen, which I hope to garden out and put in a glamping pod!!! We have done some investigating now the sheep aren’t in small field or big field for that matter!!! We will need to fence this area and hedge it properly. There is a mound…
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A few views of the smallholding and buildings from the weekend before last
I took a few photos which didn’t get put into a post over the previous week so……. Some more views of the tin hut and the box beside it…. The birds on a wire…. That have nested in our house!!! The gaping hole in what will be our driveway round the back…. James and the…
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Ironwork
The photos from around the site tell us that we have a LOT of old ironwork around the place…. Eventually we will start hauling it all out and start loading it into a barn for storage until we decide what we need it for…. Or if indeed we need it…. Some of it is easy…
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The first battle in the war on nettles and brambles
Once the spraying and clearing in slurry pit was done I decided to venture into what will be our orchard with the strimmer and the hedge cutters to find the other side of the bank and the gate at the end of it that leads into the yard or will do once we clear it!!!…
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Slurry pit clearance continues!!
Even during the heat of the weekend before the bank holiday here we managed, albeit a little slower with more breaks for drinks and shade etc, to clear a heap more of stuff from the slurry pit!! We cleared the logs James made last time we were up… And now have the startings of our…