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 […]
Tag Archives: small projects
The Toilet Block
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 […]
Fruit-cage
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 […]
Egg Eaters
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 […]
Super Harold
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 – […]
Hugelkultur beds
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 – […]
The Copse
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 […]
Custom-made water point
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 […]
New Hen House
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 […]
Naughty hens
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 […]
