Ever wondered what life is like as a farmer? Then this Thursday, August 10th, 2017 is your chance to find out. The newspaper and community at Farmer’s Guardian is hosting their annual #Farm24 day which allows everyone involved in farming to use social media to reach out to the general public and tell the world why … [Read more…]
Living where we do, our children learn from a very young age that we need to be kind to animals. As soon as they can walk, I have encouraged my children to go and get our dog’s food out of the cupboard and stroke her gently. As they get older, we feed the farm animals … [Read more…]
Hannah Russell lives In the Yorkshire Dales with her for horses – Badger, Paddy, Pepper and Little Alf, two dogs – Sasha and Maggie, three guinea pigs Candy, Hamish and Holly, rabbits rabbits Malibu and Muffles and a hamster called twinkle, so there is always something to do. Hannah has lived in the Yorkshire Dales … [Read more…]
We moved to the farm five years ago. It’s a long story of how our house works which I think I will save for another blog post but, to cut it short, when we arrived, most of the rooms were painted in a neutral white or magnolia. We only had Boo then and I painted … [Read more…]
We are currently the owners of one dinosaur-mad toddler. This child lives and breathes prehistoric with books, toys and endless viewing of Andy’s Prehistoric Adventures. I therefore thought I would share with you five places we have found within an hours drive of the farm in Warrington because, let’s face it, we can’t leave the … [Read more…]
Today marks the start of National Countryside week which is The Prince’s Countryside Fund’s annual awareness week. It goes on until Sunday 6th August and every year the campaign aims to raise awareness and celebrate the values of the countryside. In previous years activity has included Walk a Country Mile and encouraging members of the … [Read more…]
Summer holidays are here and, while I have one school-aged child, the two hungry mouths that are currently eating solid foods, constantly make me worry about providing my children with filling, nutritious snacks. My eldest child is currently on a medication that can make you more hungry so I am even more conscious than usual … [Read more…]
I’ve never really been one for blogging about the children every month. After they are two, I often think yearly roundups are about enough but this week, G turned two and a half and I couldn’t let it slip without saying something. If I thought the jump in development from one to two was big, … [Read more…]
The schools may have only just finished for summer but retailers are already looking ahead to back to school and some savvy parents (not me) may well have already bought school uniform for the next academic year. When I was a child, the school uniform was the boring bit. It was the new pencil case, … [Read more…]
When I had my first baby over six years ago, baby changing bags were quite boring. They did the job but they weren’t anything to look at. With G, I got one to match the pram I had at the time and it was lovely but it was just one big bag with one or … [Read more…]
