Sue15cat

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• Homegrown and Homemade

  

  It's all about the preservation of food we've grown at the moment and it's a busy time of year. A watering session in the polytunnel this morning saw me busy... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2017 FINANCE, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE, RECIPES

• Nearly There ...

  

  Hopefully yesterday was our last day without water. After lots of phone calls, instructions on how things should be done and a plan of how to actually do it... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2017 FINANCE, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE, RECIPES

• Blueberries

  

  It's been a brilliant year for the Blueberries this year, just as it was last year. Being in the Net Tunnel seems to really agree with the three bushes that we... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2017 FINANCE, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE, RECIPES

• Mutton Dressed As ....

  

  Is this the best dressed sheep on a Welsh hillside .... well we think so :-) After speaking to the vet yesterday our course of treatment for this sad looking... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2017 FINANCE, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE, RECIPES

• Poorly Sheep

  

  This is what a healthy sheep should look like. Bright eyed, nicely rounded, inquisitive and in this ones case extremely friendly. Now this on the other hand is ... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2017 FINANCE, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE, RECIPES

• Tidying Up My Act

  

  I posted HERE back in early August about tidying up the polytunnel work areas ... and then never came back with the 'after' photos, so I thought before we got... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2017 FINANCE, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE, RECIPES

• Keep Fit Chicken

  

  Remember me .... I now come in on a regular basis. I've discovered my people have exercise equipment ... ... I'm really getting the hang of it :-) But I've... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2017 FINANCE, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE, RECIPES

• Seeds, Seeds and Then Some More Seeds

  

  The ladies who lunch at Wyevale struck gold again last week, well this year I think I would call it bronze! The sale is nowhere near as good this year as it... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2017 FINANCE, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE, RECIPES

• A Very Dry Bank Holiday, with No Thanks to the NFU

  

  We woke up on Friday morning to a steady current of water flowing from underneath the house. It had obviously been flowing for sometime as outside it was... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2017 FINANCE, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE, RECIPES

• A One Day Challenge

  

  I'm having a 'spur of the moment' One Day Challenge :-) We're hoping to do a Car Boot Sale on Saturday weather permitting, so my Challenge to myself today is... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2017 FINANCE, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE, RECIPES

• Chicken at the Window ....

  

  Chicken at the window ... ... chicken at the door. You can almost hear Mavis shouting 'hey Mum there's a chicken at the door' can't you ;-) Ten minutes later... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2017 FINANCE, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE, RECIPES

• The Llanrwst Show 2017

  

  Saturday saw us up and about early, bleary eyed from a 6am alarm call, sorting out the chickens, feeding and walking the dogs ... and me frantically making a... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2017 FINANCE, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE, RECIPES

• Green Corners, Work Corners

  

  This is a bit of a post of two halves, firstly this little green corner of our land that I love ... ... it's literally just a tidying up of a corner, to the lef... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2017 FINANCE, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE, RECIPES

• Just Mavis

  

  .... looking very smart standing in the paddock. She's a much more confident little doggie now and can be trusted to mooch about the place a little bit if we ar... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2017 FINANCE, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE, RECIPES

• Chicken Stocktake 2017

  

  I try at least once a year to do a Chicken Stocktake, mostly to fix in my head the numbers and types of our ever changing flock of chickens. Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2017 FINANCE, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE, RECIPES

• Do I Still Do the Things

  

  I've been asked a couple of times if I still do any of the things I used to post about on my various Challenge blogs and on here ... Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2017 FINANCE, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE, RECIPES

• Hands Up

  

  if you walked on the newly painted grey floor in Dad's workshop. Yes Suky .... we know it was you!! Sue Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2017 FINANCE, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE, RECIPES

• A Day Out to the Trelawnyd Flower Show

  

  Saturday started early for us, feeding the animals and sorting out the chickens and making sure everything was loaded into the car safely for the forty minute... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2017 FINANCE, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE, RECIPES

• Peas, Mice, Blueberries and Shows

  

  The peas haven't been brilliant in quantity this year but we've enjoyed enough for a few good meals. This pea pod shows the standard of the peas we got from... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2017 FINANCE, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE, RECIPES

• Decluttering Has It's Benefits ....

  

  Decluttering has it's benefits in so many ways, going through one of the kitchen cupboards the other day I found a jar of blackberries steeping in whisky. Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2017 FINANCE, FOOD & DRINK, LIFESTYLE, RECIPES