Firewood
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Smallholding Sunday
A goal setting post for the smallholding this year
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Logs to burn
Another poem about logs burning!! I am rather liking these poems about firewood, there is something so evocative about fire too.
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The Firewood poem
I thought I would share a poem I found about firewood today! Given that we like lighting fires for cooking, sharing, making drinks etc in our forest school sessions! We are also completely wood fired at the smallholding here, a log fuelled Esse for cooking, heating and hot water when the solar thermal panels are…
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Weekend waffle
So summation Saturday and Sunday wasn’t working for me as a title for the weekend chat/catch up vlogs…. it didn’t sit right…. So I was up feeding the smallest boy a few nights ago and a Title came to me for these vlogs!! Weekend waffle!!! Hurrah!!! Any way the next instalment is up on the…
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Summation Sunday
Another vlog summing up this week!! A busy one again, Log chopping, Fencing, Building some Forest school/outdoor learning bits Aaaaannnnnnd Puppy!!!!
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What we do Wednesday!
How to process firewood!! Well how we collect and process it!! 😂 You can find a short video here of what we do!!! Someone LOVES the chainsaw helmet!!! Especially the visor!!! 😂 And whilst the chain saw was out!! Himself chopped me up some logs to make a log circle in the littlie’s forest school…
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Episode 13 show notes
Episode 13 Sunday 18th March So I’ve made it this far!!! Still got bump in tow!! Lots of little bits to tell you all about this week, some sections are a bit light on content this week, because we’ve had disturbed nap times due to toddler illness ( joyfully he threw up in the car…
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Busy weeks!!
So the past two weeks have been filled with visitors and LOTS of outside work….. not much time for crafting except in between visitors and knitting of an evening!! We started with a few days with my sister and niece and nephew!! Someone was very pleased with his visitors!! And we had wall building round…
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What a week!!
Well this week has been a whirlwind after our usual more sedate pace round here!! Monday we were at the hospital for another growth scan and clinic…. Not a great photo but he is a larger baby than his brother and running out of space!!! (7 weeks till due date!) Tuesday we caught up on…
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Collecting, processing and stacking
A big part of our new lives here this time of year is collecting processing and stacking wood for our Esse and logburner. The Esse allows us to cook, heat water and heat our home and the log burner tops us up on chilly nights and even sometimes allows us to cook tea on it…