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Duck Pond

December 28, 2015by Claire 16 Comments

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 […]

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Animals

The Toilet Block

November 24, 2015by Claire 6 Comments

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 […]

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Fruit-cage

October 21, 2015by Claire 5 Comments

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 […]

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gardening

Egg Eaters

July 31, 2015by Claire 7 Comments

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 […]

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Animals

Super Harold

June 23, 2015by Claire 5 Comments

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 – […]

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Campsite

Hugelkultur beds

June 21, 2015by Claire 4 Comments

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 – […]

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gardening

The Copse

March 20, 2015by Claire 10 Comments

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  […]

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