Your homes should be your sanctuary – somewhere comfortable to return to at the end of a long day where you can your feet up with a glass of wine. It’s much easier to enjoy spending time in a beautiful, tidy home than a cluttered and messy one. A serene haven will provide you with … [Read more…]
From past posts, I imagine you are all au fait with the likes of chicken maths and then chick maths. This my friends is a totally different story all together. This is egg maths. It all stared with red mite which are pesky little critters who feast off the skin of hens. It ended up … [Read more…]
The last month has whizzed by in a whirr of after school clubs, extra curricular activities and wishing there were more hours in the day. I remember when I was at school that I never thought I spent enough time at home and now I never think my wn children spend enough time at home. … [Read more…]
Everyone has things about the housework that they enjoy and things that they don’t enjoy at all. Your least favorite task to tackle in the house is someone else’s favorite, but that doesn’t mean that you want to spend all of your time doing housework. For a little fun, we’ve put together a list of … [Read more…]
Are you sick of sitting behind a desk all day? If you work a desk job, keeping fit takes all the more effort, and those dreaded trips to the gym can cut right into your precious free time! It goes without saying that you get far less exercise in an office than you do working … [Read more…]
Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash If you own a farm, you know how important it is to have hay. Hay has many uses. The most common way it is used is as food for farm animals. Farms need to store hay bales in their barns for edible emergencies or long winters when green … [Read more…]
When the first Covid-19 lockdown happened in March 2020, I think it is fair to say that many people began hankering after a simpler life, possibly in a more rural setting. With working from home becoming the new normal, people’s focus changed from workwear and leisure to their homes and garden. This got me thinking … [Read more…]
I have managed to cope with having two children at school and one at nursery for the last six years but, when the youngest started, I began to worry that I was going to forget something. PE multiplied by three, after school clubs multiplied by three, reading books multiplied by three-you get the picture. As … [Read more…]
We seemed to have packed loads into the last month. We kicked it all off with a failed trip to Sealife in Manchester where we didn’t actually go in because you had to pre-book. We spent a lot of time in fields again as the farmer was busy getting the harvest in so picnics … [Read more…]
How many divorces have started with moving sheep? As a farmer’s wife, I am an easy target for anything and everything that goes wrong when moving animals. It rains. It’s my fault. I am standing nowhere near the animals and they won’t go in the gate. It’s my fault. Can you see a pattern emerging? … [Read more…]
