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Our New Life in the Country
http://ournewlifeinthecountry.blogspot.co.uk/
It's simply the wild and wacky ramblings of a 50 something townie turned country girl who lost her heart to a sailor and started a new life in the country.
Following our journey with dogs, cats, chickens, rampant veggies and learning to be more and more self sufficient.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 914 )
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Live Below the Line - Day Two
My second day of Live Below the Line week started out very 'carby'. Three rounds of peanut butter on toast and a couple of black coffees. Read more
Posted on 29 April 2014 FINANCE, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE, RECIPES -
Live Below the Line - My Food - Day One
It's here - It's Live Below the Line week and this is the food I ate when I did the week slightly ahead of time, as to actually do it this week would have been... Read more
Posted on 28 April 2014 FINANCE, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE, RECIPES -
Totally Touristy Day
Yesterday we had one of our totally touristy days, showing our houseguest of this week Lovely Hubby's sister Alison part of our local area. First a few hours... Read more
Posted on 24 April 2014 LIFESTYLE -
Weeds and Trees
We are gradually and steadily digging up the weeds in the front flower bed. It didn't seem much of a job when we started but the weeds must have been plucked of... Read more
Posted on 23 April 2014 FINANCE, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE, RECIPES -
Live Below the Line - Version Five
100g Coffee 50p Rich Tea Biscuits - 25p Start your day with a couple of biscuits and a cup of coffee. Lemon Curd 2 x 22p = 44p Brown Bread - 50p (or you could... Read more
Posted on 22 April 2014 FINANCE, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE, RECIPES -
Live Below the Line - Version Four
Fruit Yogurts 2x4 at 33p = 66p I call this one the 'No Cook' Live Below the Line. The only thing you will have to do all week is to make coffee and warm up a ca... Read more
Posted on 21 April 2014 FINANCE, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE, RECIPES -
Live Below the Line - Version Three
Coffee 50p This is the version I call my 'Fruit and Veg' Live Below the Line. It is possible, just, to be able to incorporate more fruit and veg into your... Read more
Posted on 20 April 2014 FINANCE, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE, RECIPES -
Live Below the Line - Version Two
Lemon Curd 22p Brown Bread 50p 100g Coffee 50p Breakfast - Brown Toast with Lemon Curd washed down with a couple of cups of coffee. Read more
Posted on 19 April 2014 FINANCE, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE, RECIPES -
Living Below the Line - Version One
Cornflakes 31p There are many variations on doing Live Below the Line, and over the course of the next few days I am hoping to inspire you and show some... Read more
Posted on 18 April 2014 FINANCE, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE, RECIPES -
It Doesn't Matter If It's Small, It's How You Use It That Counts ....
Remember our lush green paddock, well it's been undergoing some massive changes over the last few days. We are the talk of the Gardening Club, and yesterday at... Read more
Posted on 17 April 2014 FINANCE, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE, RECIPES -
A Race to the Egg
Angel has taken to laying her egg in a nest of her own making on the edge of the woods. Now that we have made the fencing more secure around Chicken World she... Read more
Posted on 16 April 2014 FINANCE, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE, RECIPES -
'Our' Sheep
Yesterday in the comments, Sue from Frugal in Suffolk (simplesuffolksmallholder) asked if we still had our sheep. As you can see from these pictures taken... Read more
Posted on 15 April 2014 FINANCE, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE, RECIPES -
Planting Again
The fruit trees we planted last weekend are doing well. As you can see the Cherry trees are in full blossom and it's been lovely to see the odd bee buzzing... Read more
Posted on 14 April 2014 FINANCE, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE, RECIPES -
Pesky Birds
A couple of weeks ago just as they finished flowering we moved all the Snowdrops from the end of the drive to a more permanent place, ready for when we alter th... Read more
Posted on 13 April 2014 FINANCE, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE, RECIPES -
Sometimes ....
Sometimes it pays to wait!! I've been wanting this jumper for months. It's from Cotton Traders and I've seen it hanging in the outlet in the motorway... Read more
Posted on 11 April 2014 FINANCE, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE, RECIPES -
Running Water on a Welsh Hillside
Can you hear banging? ... " I can .... where do you think it's coming from?" " It's that man in the flat cap doing things again to our world again!! " " He's... Read more
Posted on 09 April 2014 FINANCE, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE, RECIPES -
Unusual but Lovely
After our hard working tree planting day on Saturday we were aching slightly but raring to go with a days hedge planting on Sunday (and did I mention we have... Read more
Posted on 08 April 2014 FINANCE, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE, RECIPES -
What a Difference a Day Makes
One day of digging holes and planting trees will change the look of this hillside for ever. On Saturday we started with the blank canvas that is this first... Read more
Posted on 07 April 2014 FINANCE, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE, RECIPES -
Daisy's Day
Hello My name is Daisy, I'm a Lavender Pekin Bantam, I'm two and a half years old now and I live on a hillside in Wales with lots of other chickens .... ...... Read more
Posted on 05 April 2014 FINANCE, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE, RECIPES -
Too Big for My Blog?
I'm thinking this new header is too big ... and we have a widescreen computer. Or maybe it looks too big to me because we have such a big screen!! Read more
Posted on 03 April 2014 FINANCE, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE, RECIPES