Wanderings
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Day two in the little tin hut!
I wake very early, especially considering it was Easter Sunday, but the dawn chorus was LOUD, not surprising when you think that the little tin hut’s windows are ill fitting corrugated plastic and plastic bags!!!! I sat in the lounge area of the little tin hut and read some of the Gwlad magazines that the…
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Our first night!!
Now I was warned about the darkness given the lack of street lighting and I have experienced the darkness of no street lights before, but the first time after dark that I opened the hovel door was an experience!!!! Total blinding darkness!!! Even after the dim lighting of the energy saving bulbs in the hovel…
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Hunting the Water Source
Dad and I walked up the mountain track to follow the spring feed for the Hovel. There is a lot of evidence that the owner of the pony field has been digging out the ditches and improving the drainage over the mountain fields. We followed the line of piping up the track and through the…
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Rough Pastures
After a restorative cuppa in the Hovel we headed out along the other borders of the property over the rough pastureland. Following the animal trails we wandered down to the stream pipe which seperates the two of the three section of rough pastureland. Dad suggested we get a stone trough put in under the pipe…
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Back into the fields
We left the woodland and continued our wanderings around Big Field. If we cut the briars in the corner of Big Field/Orchard we will have another good access point, which would save us getting caught up on the Blackthorns, as Mum did!! We walked back up the hedge line and stopped at Orchard (or what…
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The Woodland
The best place currently to get into the woodland is the top corner of Big Field. As we went into the woodland the floor was a carpet of Wood Anemones and Celandine. It was beautiful. We also found a few RedCampion flowers. To the left on entering the woodland the fencing/boundary needs to be sorted…
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Our first proper trip to the farm!
This trip was HUGE!!!!! so I am going to divide it into several posts so as not to overwhelm myself or you dear readers!! Well my parents arrived Good Friday having battled the Easter Weekend Traffic!!!! We stayed at home Friday night for them to recover and then headed down to the Farm on the…
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Tentative First Steps!
We arrived at the Smallholding/Farm (I shall be using these terms probably fairly interchangeably!) to collect the keys and complete a few bits and pieces with the previous Owner. We were introduced to the workings of the oil fired Rayburn… We were also shown how to precariously dip the oil tank to check levels, thankfully…
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In the beginning…..
James and I first went to see Tyddyn Bryn at the end of November 2013, and we made a second visit with his parents and a builder friend in tow at the beginning of December. I took a load of initial photos on this visit. After our second visit we made an offer and from…