Find about our life on the farm
Ever since I got our very first two hens (Daphne and Pearl), way back in 2012, I have loved everything chicken. Over the last five years, I have accumulated a lot of chicken things. Plates, cups, cushions, doorstops. If there is a choice of anything with chickens on it, I choose it. I even get … [Read more…]
As a mother, I feel as if I spend my whole life trying to make my family happy. If they are happy, I am happy and one of the best ways to make them happy is to cook nice meals that they enjoy to eat. The way to a man’s heart may well be through … [Read more…]
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about other people’s kitchen tables. Today, I am telling you all about ours. My table was pictured in the last post. Did you spot it? Did you guess? When we moved to the farm, we had lived in a terraced house and had a lovely little table but, … [Read more…]
The new uniform was bought and the shiny shoes slipped on for the new term. This Siblings post sees our summer holidays over and a new term at school. There are two siblings still at home but they have both missed the boss this last week. You wouldn’t think just one child missing would cause … [Read more…]
Living in a rural location can be both a blessing and a curse. On one hand, you have an unparalleled level of privacy, a constant reminder of the beauty of nature, and an escape from the human zoo of urban living; however, not everything is idyllic as one may first assume if you lived in … [Read more…]
A while ago, I wrote a piece called How to get Your Partner to Say Yes to Goats. It was a mounted campaign and I was very pleased with myself when Hubster eventually said yes. I now want a Labrador but Hubster is being a lit more difficult to persuade than he was about the … [Read more…]
I have wanted a stag head in my home for ages. Long before they came into fashion. There is something about a stag’s head, mounted on the wall that screams country home. As a modern farmer, it seems Hubster is not so much the bounty hunter that he may have been if we had been … [Read more…]
When shopping for a male animal-like a ram or a bull, one of the first things you do is grab hold of their testicles to check they are both there, they are the correct size and that they feel right. That grabbed your attention, didn’t it? We have a testicle MOT picture on the wall … [Read more…]
Last year I wrote about the annual cycle of a sheep farming family and you would think that everything is the same one year on, wouldn’t you? The beauty of farming though is that no two days are alike, let alone years and, whether you see it as a good thing or not, I am … [Read more…]
I love having a nosey into other people’s homes. I can’t imagine anyone not wanting to have a snoop. If there is one place in most homes which says a lot about a person though, it is the kitchen table. You eat, drink and be merry around the kitchen table and it really is the … [Read more…]
