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When I sat down to sum up the past 2 years I found an unpublished post from exactly a year ago: "Whenever we leave the smallholding and return to what we call the old world, family and friends comment that we look well and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 [...]
As I clean out our recently acquired stock trailer used to transport our three pigs to their final destination, I reflect on the last five months. It has been a journey of mixed emotions. We expected to feel some guilt as our relationship with these pigs came to an end. We didn't really sleep the night before, as we focused on the logistics of moving [...]
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 [...]
The end of July sees the end of our first month at Graig and we have broken ourselves with physical chores (bruised and sore from head to toe) but not made a dent in the work. Many of the smallholding books we had read before the move hinted at how overwhelming the work can be and to plan small tasks that could be easily completed along [...]
