Tyddyn Bryn

Plans

• Learning to Knit

  

  I often get a lot of comments as people see me knit out and about, or see the yarns, or my knitted socks….. “I wish I could knit” Well the honest truth is it takes practice, but its actually quite easy!! and realistically if you can knit, purl and can google what the other terminology…

  Ellie

  February 14, 2021

  Craftiness, knitting, Knitting and Crochet, Plans, Podcast

  knit, knitting, knitting journey, learn to knit, learning to knit, playlists, Podcast, podcasting, youtube

• Smallholding Sunday

  

  A goal setting post for the smallholding this year

  Ellie

  January 17, 2021

  Building work, Firewood, Fruit and vegetables, Garden, Livestock, News, Plans, Podcast, Sustainability, The tin hut, Wanderings, Woodland, Working the land

  building work, goals, hedge cutters, hedge laying, hedge restoring, hedgerows, hedges, plans, smallholder, smallholders, smallholding, smallholding life, Woodland

• Smallholding update!

  

  Living the dream!!! So many people say this to us!! And it always makes me laugh a little, yes in so very many ways we are living the dream, but I really don’t think a lot of people realise how much hard work the dream is!! Take this week for example!! All the rain and…

  Ellie

  November 15, 2020

  animals, Building work, News, Plans, The tin hut, Wanderings, Working the land

  building, building work, clearing, fields, flooding, garden, gardening, grow your own, grow your own food, Livestock, ponies, sheep, smallholding, tin hut, vegetables, water, weeds, willow

• Goodbye 2018… hello 2019

  So I have made a couple of vlogs rounding up 2018 And a vlog about plans for 2019!!

  Ellie

  January 6, 2019

  Books, Building work, Craftiness, Fruit and vegetables, Knitting and Crochet, Plans, Podcast, Sewing, Spinning, The tin hut

  building, building work, crafting, crochet, Etsy, forest school, forestschool, gardening, knitting, Podcast, self sufficiency, Sewing, smallholding, Spinning, tin hut, vegetables, Weaving

• 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

• 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

• Challenges and goals!!

  Well the traditional goal posting for the new year is here!!! Last year I wanted to read 26 books!!!! Ha!!! Between the farm and moving and working till July and toddle chops I don’t think I even managed one!!!! And with a new baby arriving this year I need to be realistic about what I…

  Ellie

  January 3, 2018

  Craftiness, Knitting and Crochet, Plans, Sewing, Spinning, Tyddyn Bryn on Etsy, Weaving, yarn

  business, Etsy, knitting, Patterns, ravelry, Sewing, sketch journalling, Spinning, Weaving, woodwork, working from home, yarn

• Work around the Holding

  So since we are here now every day….. We have started doing some bits around the place other than he workshop and the house! Planting some bulbs for some spring colour about the place….. Crocuses, tulips and Daffodils…. Mowing the grass …. so we can get at the bed we planted and weed the heck…

  Ellie

  October 23, 2017

  Building work, Fruit and vegetables, Plans, Working the land

  box, bulbs, composters, forsythia, fruit cage, hedge, mowing, muck, planting, slurry pit, spring colour

• The Podcast!!! Episode 1!!

    This morning I shared the first of the Tyddyn Bryn podcasts!!! There is episode one up on YouTube!!  Here are the show notes! Welcome, and explanation of Tyddyn Bryn and the short series of videos….. Namely because of small man!! Knitting: Currently working on… Vanilla socks for James with a partridge heel in Crazy…

  Ellie

  January 27, 2017

  Interior design, Patterns, Plans, Podcast, Sewing, Tyddyn Bryn on Etsy, Working the land, yarn

  Etsy, knitting, loveknitting, Podcast, ravelry, Sewing

• 26 books

  Aka one book for reed two weeks of this year!!! Sooo before Cheeky was born I read a bit of a book every night without fail…. Since he was born I have not picked a book up….. So now that he is starting to sleep some more in his own cot not the cosleeper…. I’m…

  Ellie

  January 13, 2017

  Books, News, Plans, Wanderings

  26 books in 2017, Books, reading