Farming families love to watch programmes about other farmers, well we do anyway. Everything stops for Country File and I mean everything. However, despite farmers loving everything about their trade, it may be true that the general public isn’t always as enthusiastic. Well, that is until a television company recruited celebrities to herd sheep. That’s … [Read more…]
The schools may have only just broken up for the holidays and you may still be thinking about where to go on your summer break but some people are starting their preparations for Christmas. This week, Baby G and I went to meet Paul McAvoy, a small holder and turkey farmer from Crouchley Hall Farm … [Read more…]
Have you ever been so enthusiastic about something that you have no idea how to go about telling people about it justly? Last week, I went along to the Mornflake factory in Crewe for their #MornflakeSeedToBowlEvent. Since then, I have been worrying about how to write up my experiences because there is a lot riding … [Read more…]
Yesterday was my favourite day if the farming year. Sheep shearing. The actual technical side of the day was unchanged from last year so if you want to read about that, you can here. The differences this year were obviously out new addition, our little farm baby who had some milk, looked at the … [Read more…]
This weekend is BritMums Live. It is the UK’s biggest, two-day social media conference and blogger event, where lifestyle bloggers and social influencers gather to meet and socialise, network with brands, improve their skills, and fire their creativity. My social media news feeds are awash with excitement. What to wear, what to take, where … [Read more…]
Today I took the kids to a farm to celebrate Open Farm Sunday. We went to Shoots Delph Farm in St Helens. Like our farm, it has been passed down through generations of the Forster family for hundreds of years and they run a successful organic meat business raising cattle and sheep which they butcher … [Read more…]
Like most people who cook dinner every night, I can get stuck in a rut. Some weeks we eat the same things as we did the week before. Sometimes I forget what I’ve cooked that week and we eat the same meal in the same week. Actually, when I’d just had Baby G, we ate … [Read more…]
Baby carriers. They are not something I really thought about with Boo. We lived in a normal house and I was quite happy to push her around in the pram. Since starting my blog a couple of years ago though, I have become more and more aware of the cult of baby wearing. With so … [Read more…]
Modern families. Parents work. Children are in childcare. Food shop gets done on a Saturday afternoon, after ballet/football in the morning. They eat takeaway on a Friday or Saturday night, take a sun holiday once a year, eat too much at Christmas, drink too much on a weekend. Sound familiar? Matalan are using the celebration … [Read more…]
We visited Red Bank Farm this weekend in Newton-le-Willows. It was open for this year’s Open Farm Sunday and, we had a great time. Yes it was a bit of a busman’s holiday but, seeing as Hubster won’t open our doors, it was great to see other farmer’s doing well for themselves. I haven’t been … [Read more…]
