Ellie
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Views from the fields!
Last weekend we went to the smallholding again on a Friday after work and decided that the first thing we should do is walk the dogs to wear them out!! I took my camera and took a few shots of the fields! It’s one of those views that you just have to give a big…
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Wildlife in the banks
I found a few lovely specimens of plant-life nestled in the banks of our hedgerows and borders on the May bank holiday!!! Any help identifying the unnamed hoots would be greatly appreciated!! I appear to have left the book on my newly made shelving unit in the hovel!!! Borage? Bluebells Red campion? More bluebells and…..…
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I LOVE power tool gardening!!!!!
Sunday and Monday of the May Bank Holiday James and I spent the time using our wonderful gifts from both sets of our parents!!! POWER TOOLS!!!!!!!! And what a difference they have made!!!! We started with this….. Where we left off at Easter….. Then we used the hedge cutters and the strimmer and the chain…
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The little tin hut!
Lots of people have been asking to see what the hovel or the little tin hut looks like in more detail!! The previous owner lived here for about 10 years?!?! And this is where we are camping out while we finish the build she started and whilst we spend the weekends working the land!! After…
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Return to the farm!
We managed to get back down to the barn on the Saturday of the May bank holiday, in the afternoon after I had finished at Roath craft market. We took a short wander to check on the status of the barns. Both are now free of cows, but have yet to be cleaned out!! And…
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Meanwhile back at home!
My wonderful friend went to the RHS show in Cardiff recently and she bought me some basketry willow to start to grow for the farm!!! As the banks of the streams we want to plant it down are not at all ready for the willow I have planted them in pots in the garden here…
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Day 4 and 5 in the Little Tin Hut!
The next two days I was alone at the smallholding with just Sookie for company. Sookie used this as an excuse to wedge herself into my armpit every time I sat down or to go absolutely bat shit crazy every time anyone approached the farm or if there was a noise!!! We came to terms…
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Day 3 in the Little Tin Hut!
Easter Monday was spent doing a few small jobs due to the aching parentals from the exertions of the day before!! Doing things like fixing hinges, which then meant that front door of the tin hut didn’t close properly, which I only realised once everyone had abandoned me and it was dark!!! Thus meaning that…
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The Slurry Pit
Yes… The old cattle farm’s slurry pit!!! This is behind the three barns with gaping gaps in the wall where all the muck and rubbish would have been swept out of the barns when the farm was last a fully functioning cattle farm (by local reports about 30 years ago) We have decided to clear…