I have sat down to write a post many times over the past few months but as soon as I have begun to reflect on the previous months my heart fills with sadness for the loss of our oldest dogs Rosie and Toby. I want to write about both of them individually and do them both justice but the loss is still too palpable. I will [...]
When I sat down to sum up the past 2 years I found an unpublished post from exactly a year ago: "Whenever we leave the smallholding and return to what we call the old world, family and friends comment that we look well and ask if we are enjoying our new life and have any regrets. Without hesitation we both say, "No regrets". On return we [...]
Our wish list of animals we wanted to raise on our Smallholding did not include ducks, but when a paddling of five ducks came up for sale locally they seemed to be the next step. We named our four beautiful Aylesbury ducks Francis (the drake), Mrs Yellow, Mrs Pink and Mrs Green (to match their leg rings) and the noisy Pekin, Jemima. The breeder advised us [...]
When we first moved here, a year ago, we planned on a monthly blog, then after a few months a seasonal blog or at the very least when we reached key milestones; new additions, projects completed etc., but time has just flown by and posts have been few and far between as the desire to sit indoors at a keyboard diminishes. It has been [...]
