sheep
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Sheep Sunday – four more!!
How the next sheep were acquired. Meet the four sheep we got back in December 2020. More of the girls and boys that produce our fabulous yarns!
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Sheepy Sunday
So after the 3 witches we acquired Wolfie! She is a welsh white type sheep and was a bottle lamb that one of my neighbour’s wives acquired to raise. We acquired her when she had transitioned into the neighbour’s garden and was spending more time munching flower beds and pooping on the front doorstep than…
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Sheepy Sunday
So we have done Wanda’s Story and Baarbara’s Story…. Here is the story of the three witches!! Basically we swapped three sheep for some large bales of haylage the summer after we had Wanda and Babs! Not a hugely exciting story, but we ended up with Garlick, Og and Weatherwax, which for the literary savvy…
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Sheepy Sunday!
So last Month I told you some of Wanda’s story…. Up this month is Baabara! Baabara is a mule most likely, Welsh white… something along those lines! She is the white faced one in this picture and is the MOST suspicious sheep you will ever meet!! When they come up for feed in the field,…
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Sheepy Sunday, Wanda’s Story
Once a month I am going to tell you the story of our sheep and how we came to acquire them! First up is our first sheep on the smallholding, Wanda. She is a Beulah Speckled Face sheep, which you can see more in later photographs. Wanda turned up in the lane and on our…
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Have you ever fancied dyeing your own yarn!?
Well I have developed a kit just for you!!! The kit contains: Two 100g skeins of our pure Llanwenog Aran weight yarn A professional grade dye specially blended for you, in two colours and you can choose the base colour, and either a tonal or contrasting colour! Gloves Stirrers A full set of instructions helping…
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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…
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Ever wondered about our yarns??
I’ve been fiddling about putting together a little about the yarn video!! What do you all think!?! You can find our yarns over on Etsy They truly are a joy to work with!!! Watch this space for some new patterns releases coming soon!!!
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What’s doing??
We have been busy as bees round the holding still, but since the start of lockdown in March we have not had any significant rainfall!!! 10 weeks!! Things are tinder dry outside…. we are having to regularly water everywhere and currently just the other side of our nearest village there is a forestry and field…
