Duck Pond
So this is what we did on Christmas Day and Boxing Day. Our Christmas tradition is to build something or do a project – we both have a couple of […]
So this is what we did on Christmas Day and Boxing Day. Our Christmas tradition is to build something or do a project – we both have a couple of […]
Come on ….. take a look inside to see how the fabulous toilet block is coming along. But please leave your muddy boots at the door I am not sure […]
James and Henry have spent the past few months on and off building a wonderful new, giant fruit cage. It is about 7m wide, 21 m long and about 2m […]
We have a problem – an epidemic of egg eating. Our hens are furiously eating their eggs. This is not good. We should have stopped it when it was one […]
Harold, James’ step-dad, stayed with us for an extra two and a half weeks to finish tiling the toilet block. He and Kathy had already renovated the food truck – […]
My lovely friends Christine and Nathan said that I needed to sort out our vegetable growing on the smallholding – no goats until the vegetables had had some attention – […]
Our Copse is getting a makeover – quite a dramatic one. Back in January James cleared it out of all the dead trees and the small elms that don’t thrive […]
We have had a water point here for a while, but didn’t have a soakaway or concrete slabs round it. This meant it would often get a bit muddy so […]
The new hen house is up and running. We have moved all the chickens to the smallholding and their new palatial surroundings. They seemed to like hanging out in the […]
The smallholding hybrid hens – who are actually lovely, they are friendly, let kids pick them up and lay lots of delicious eggs – have started to be just a […]