Working the land
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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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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…
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My first jobs!!
Finally after fussing the baby St. Bernard next door and a bit of pootling about I gained possession of the spade!!!! Alleluiah!!!! I snatched up the spade, loaded it into my wheelbarrow and left the men folk mulling over their newly dug ditch and Mum cutting back the cotoneaster on the front of the building.…
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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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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…