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…]
Living on the farm, we are used to creatures great and small. Hubster often jokes that even our garden is a hive of activity. From the farm cats who like to tease the dog, to escaped chickens, goats, ducks, even a newt. Miaow! I love our farm cat. We rehomed her because she climbed her … [Read more…]
Anything vehicle is always a hit with my little farmer. We have been chosen to be BigJigs Play Patrol bloggers this year and I am not going to lie. We had our eye on the Bigjigs farm play set. Imagine our delight when it was that which arrived in the post. From experience, I waited … [Read more…]
So you want to meet a farmer? Well good luck with that. I have been with my farmer for over ten years now, married for half of that time and I have been asked quite a bit how we met. I think people think there should have been some really farm story-you know, my car … [Read more…]
Over the Christmas period, I had a look over some of my old blog posts. It actually made for interesting reading, for me. Remembering activities I had forgotten we did and seeing how our lives and the farm has changed. One post that stuck in my head though was my post: My Life as a … [Read more…]
Earlier this year, I wrote a post about plans. Animal plans. Now I am a firm believer that of you reveal plans, they may not happen. Therefore, the following list is not a plan. It is a wishlist. Which animals would I like on the farm? A pet sheep. I know. I know. The death … [Read more…]
Anything farm is always a hit here. Obviously. So anything farm-inspired for the baby or any of the children for that matter, is also a win. For the purposes of this blog post however, I am going to focus on farm inspired clothing for babies and toddlers. The SS17 collection at Mothercare has lots of … [Read more…]
We have had a lovely month for our second Siblings project. Both children have had their birthdays. Boo was six a couple of days after the last post published and G was two at the end of January. As the month went on, I realised how hard it is to get a nice photo of … [Read more…]
My little prince G turned two at the end of January. The transition from a baby at one to a little boy at two has been amazing to witness. This time last year, he was crawling at an alarming rate and, whilst he was in the verge of walking, it hadn’t quite happened. Well he … [Read more…]
