Tyddyn Bryn

Life with a toddler

• Wooly Wednesday

  

  A little post about some new sweaters I have knit up for the boys! The Diplodocus sweaters!

  Ellie

  November 25, 2020

  Craftiness, knitting, Knitting and Crochet, Life with a toddler, Patterns, Tyddyn Bryn on Etsy, yarn

  crafting, Etsy, knitting, Patterns, ravelry, sweaters, yarn

• A week’s worth of vlogs!!

  I promised myself I’d be better at Blogging as well as Vlogging…. but life kinda happens!! Anyway here are the links for the blogs this week Something new Sunday Makers Monday What we do Wednesday Sustainable Saturday Also I’ve managed a load of baking this week!! 😁

  Ellie

  February 9, 2019

  Children, Craftiness, Garden, Life with a toddler, Podcast, Sustainability, Working the land

  building, building work, chimney sweep, chimneys, crafting, Esse, flues, garden, gardening, knitting, Podcast, Polytunnel, self sufficiency, slurry pit, smallholding, socks, sweeping, vegetables, weed wars

• 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…

  Ellie

  January 9, 2019

  Children, Firewood, Forest schools, Life with a toddler, Podcast, Woodland, Woodwork, Working the land

  forestschool, Podcast, self sufficiency, smallholding, wood, Woodland, woodwork

• A few little videos

  I’ve added a few new videos to the YouTube Channel!!! Some tours of the animals and I’m planning a weekly ish….. vlog about the happenings on the smallholding!! Here is Episode one!!

  Ellie

  July 29, 2018

  Food and drink, Fruit and vegetables, Garden, Life with a toddler, Livestock, News, Plans, Podcast, Wanderings, Wildlife, Woodland, Working the land

  barns, Big Field, building work, clearing, digging, fencing, fields, fruit, fruit cage, garden, gardening, gates, hedgerows, hedges, Holding Field, Livestock, nettles, Orchard, orchard field, plants, Podcast, rocks, Rough Pasture, self sufficiency, sheep, slurry pit, Small field, smallholding, stream, trees, vegetables, views, water, Waterways, weed wars, weeds, willow, wood, Woodland, woodlands

• Building play areas!

  So in order to get anything done with Mr Whirlwind around he has to have things to occupy him!!! So gradually using and repurposing things around the farm and planting and making etc I am building a play area…. or lots of bits of play area Inadvertently with some of the digger work that has…

  Ellie

  June 7, 2018

  baby, Children, Forest schools, Garden, Life with a toddler, Working the land

  baby, building, forest school, garden, gardening, outdoor play, repurpose, reuse, toddler, toys, upcycle

• All around the holding….

  So….. deep breath and here goes….. Back at the end of April…. the Polytunnel finally had its skin put on!! We almost immediately started planting and moving some of the seed across that we had started in the house off into the tunnel…. Spring finally arrived after the seemingly relentless winter!! The small boy found…

  Ellie

  May 27, 2018

  Fruit and vegetables, Garden, Life with a toddler, Plans, Working the land

  building, building work, digging, fruit, fruit cage, garden, gardening, nettles, Orchard, orchard field, plants, Rough Pasture, self sufficiency, slurry pit, trees, vegetables, views, weed wars, weeds, willow

• Wonderwool 2018

  So Saturday last Mum and I took the tribe of smalls to Wonderwool at Builth Wells!! I love this yarn show and have attended every year for the last ten plus!! Apart from the year William was born as him arriving and Wonderwool were just that wee bit too close in dates!! (He would have…

  Ellie

  May 1, 2018

  Craftiness, Day tripping, knitting, Knitting and Crochet, Life with a toddler, Spinning, yarn

  baby, crafting, crochet, knitting, Spinning, Wonderwool, yarn

• Planting planting and more planting

  So now the Polytunnel has been skinned we have been able to get in and plant!! So far now we have planted mangetout, beans, beetroot, carrots, spinach, leeks, rocket, spring onions and salads…. Then James has moved our two new grapevines into the corners, one red one white… He has also moved all the baby…

  Ellie

  April 30, 2018

  Food and drink, Fruit and vegetables, Garden, Life with a toddler, Working the land

  fruit, fruit cage, garden, gardening, plants, rocks, self sufficiency, slurry pit, vegetables, weed wars

• Farm update

  Soooo in lieu of a podcast which I may not have time to do or enough content for, for a few weeks…. here is the farm update for recent weeks!!! Sooo…. back at the end of March on his due date we became a family of four when baby Mathew put in an appearance!! All…

  Ellie

  April 24, 2018

  baby, Day tripping, Fruit and vegetables, Garden, Life with a toddler, Livestock, News, Wanderings, Working the land

  baby, fruit, gardening, plants, Polytunnel, self sufficiency, sheep, simple living, slurry pit, sustainable, toddler, vegetables, visitors

• 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…

  Ellie

  March 18, 2018

  Craftiness, Firewood, knitting, Knitting and Crochet, Life with a toddler, Livestock, Podcast, Sewing, Spinning, Weaving, Woodwork, Working the land, yarn

  baby, clearing, crafting, crochet, diggers, Drainage, drains, Etsy, knitting, Podcast, ravelry, Sewing, sheep, smallholding, socks, Spinning, water, Waterways, Weaving, woodwork, Yard, yarn