Tyddyn Bryn

Drainage

• 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

• Mini digger hired!! Check!!

  So James decided to hire a mini digger this week…. and has been out in it all day every day working hard to create better waterways, raised beds, scrape the barns, flatten play areas…. etc etc!! Busy times!! Someone else rather liked the digger too!!! And very quickly figured out whilst sat on Daddy’s lap…

  Ellie

  March 16, 2018

  Building work, Fruit and vegetables, Garden, Life with a toddler, Wanderings, Working the land

  barn, building, building work, clearing, Drainage, flooding, gardening, path, slurry pit, smallholding, stream, veg garden, water, Yard

• So….

  A poorly baby limited our plans last weekend….. *sigh* the poor little man…. So I’ve missed one o my best friends Hen dos…. And there has been no podcasting time for me…. No sewing time….. And realistically not much knitting time….. I’m only up to almost the heel on my second Heath sock…..  However, at…

  Ellie

  March 13, 2017

  Fruit and vegetables, Garden, Working the land

  Drainage, fruit cage, pit of doom, slurry pit, veg garden

• Welcome to the Great Lakes of West Wales!!

  Mmmm ok so last week we had a digger at the farm digging out all the old nasty poop and shovelling in nice top soil!! This week we have had a chat with the digger chap about drainage…. Because…. Well as they say pictures speak louder than words!!  So next week we have drainage being…

  Ellie

  March 5, 2017

  Working the land

  Drainage, mud, slurry pit, water

• Drainage

  The other week James, helped by my nephew (who was digging for treasure and tunnels!!) dug out the drain hole between barns two and three….. The Hugely heavy drain cover was hauled off…. The poo, mud and oil dug out of the drain….. A jet wash pipe shoved down to see if it was clear…

  Ellie

  September 6, 2015

  Building work

  Drainage, drains

• Bye bye giant drain hole!!!

  James and his father spent a few days last week sorting out the giant cavernous drain hole in our yard, which we have had a black pallet over to prevent someone falling in for over a year now!! Brickwork, cementing, bolts, a heavy duty grate which we had already in the hole, but was way…

  Ellie

  August 31, 2015

  Building work

  building work, cement, Drainage, drains

• 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…

  Ellie

  May 1, 2014

  Building work, Wanderings, Wildlife, Working the land

  digging, Drainage, plantlife, thoughts, views

• 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…

  Ellie

  April 27, 2014

  Wanderings, Working the land

  Big Field, Drainage, Orchard, Waterways