The weather does seem to be a bit hit and miss at the moment, I think it’s now that April showers are now in May. But we have had nicer evenings on the whole to get outside and play or…
We might be on a farm, and about to launch into lambing season ourselves (well, my brother in law because the OH isn’t a sheep fan, so only has cattle himself), but now N is older he goes out without…
I’ve been saying for years we need to do something with the garden. The wall needs a bit more compost or soil in so the flowers will be higher up and seen rather than sunken in the bottom of the…
Metal detecting’s not something I’ve ever really been interested in doing, although in the past I’ve always seen metal detector toys at Christmas and thought what good presents they’d make for our nephews and niece. But my brother’s really got…
Last weekend was a bit unusual for us. No more parties after the excitement of January, and nothing arranged for Sunday. Usually Saturday is for doing chores, swimming lessons and all those usual things you don’t get done in the…
This is probably the last year that I’ll have N with me for all of a Saturday when it’s shoot season. On the farm, during pheasant shooting season, we’ll tend to have 5 or 6 shoots. To date, he’s been…
I should know by now that nothing would stop N from going outside to play, but I’m still astounded at how little he appears to feel the cold. It just shows it’s true how there’s no bad weather, only inappropriate…
Like so many young children, N takes everything really literally, so trying to explain things on the farm can be quite hard. We’ve had several conversations recently which have either made me chuckle, or despair that it’s never going to…
Considering we’ve had a lot of time off over the Christmas holidays, we’ve not done much. Â I debated National Trust, but not many locally seemed to be open. Â So we did tend to hibernate quite a lot. Â It has meant…
In my Month of Firsts post for November, I mentioned that our farm had hosted a Farmers Bloodhounds meet on our land.  We don’t usually get involved with the hunt, indeed the OH usually rants about them because there’s always one…
I love bonfire night, having remembered great village events as a child and then the wonderful firework displays set to music at Lancaster Castle when I was at university in the city. Now we live outside several villages and before…
