Only 1 day left untill the hearing!!!!!

only 1 day to the hearing.... have woke up shattered again!!! toady we need to put the storage yard tidy, plant some plants put the green house glass in and im sure i'll find loads more to do...lol

Looks like the weather is going to be nice. Last night we had a huge bonfire, burning all the tree roots and dead trees that we had saved for our log burner, quite sad to see it all go up in smoke with out any benifit, other than being tidy for the council... In one of there last letters they brought up the log piles, what idiots, what harm can it be providing a wildlife haven, which DEFRA actually incourages us to do.... Any how i've thought about it and  decided the garden can benifit from all the ash created, so not totally a   waste.

Have left out for the neighbour some fence netting that is no good to us but he can use it for his donkeys.. 

I'm just so tired and Dead almost numb to tommorows hearing, I think its my body protecting me from worry, I just keep working from 8 in the morning till 11 at night stopping for 10 mins to wolf down a sandwich. I still not loosing any weight though, not fair!!

Babe the pig stil hasnt poppped, she is exceedingly comfy in her quarters, may be too comfy, I cant believe she can go on many more days as she will burst!!

It will be just my luck for her to go into labour the minute the hearing starts, I wonder whether that would bring it to a stop as there is supposed to be nothing able to stop it now.....

Oh I just want to sleep, we still have no car it blew up 2 weeks ago, but we have had too much on our mibd with all of this to eve think about Joe fixing it, the big end has gone, I think my big end will give up soon too.

I found a referance to this mad woman running a funny farm on the small holder site last night called Pig in mud! self sufficiency!! yes thats me, i'm famous! lol even more pressure..

Right Imust go and find some energy from somewhere and go and work... Bye

 

 

New found pressure!!! lol

Well I never!!!
 People like my blog, i've reduced some to tears even! I'm getting phone calls from people who love it so heres the pressure, I need to blog more regularily!
So another quick catch up.... Its all action stations here as on the 6th July there is a hearing in our local village hall at Llwydiarth 10 am the council want to stop us and get us off our land, saying we cant be self sufficient here and that its not viable, they have put stupid things in there report saying that our land is not even able to sustain a single blade of grass, that we cant be viable here and can sustain any animal life on our hostile holding, you would think that they were refering to the moon not our little paradise. So hence not hearing from me lately, but now I have followers I have a responsibility! So we of late have... built stone walls, created a field of lovely lush grass using traditional pasture grass seed from Powys leys, What a success 14days and it was up and green 4 weeks on we have cut it 3 times with our lawn mower and today we have put our breeding trios of Buff  Orpingtons, Blacks, Lavenders, Light sussex, etc on it in there new breeding cages.... 
We have hand Picked tons of stone off the land, but the pigs really have done an amaizing job of soil conditioing. We have also finished reinstating all the nusery bed of flowers, and edged all the beds and fields with little stone walls. Today we have been busy in the piggy matenity ward as Babe our Belgium blue sow has dropped and has bagged up.. (laymans turned Too fat to move, belly dragging the floor and uncomfortably large bussoms..poor girl) Our large whit sow doesnt look much behind her either so we have given them tons of fresh straw and left them to it, Babe earlier this year was lent out to a friend to have piglets whilst we were away. Sadly she ate and killed most of them, I believe it was because she wasnt just left to it, the lady said she was a dangerous pig and should be turned into sausages, mmm well I hope she proves her wrong soon.. She is fussing me and making lovely piggy noises and wont leave my side when I go in to bed her down so she doesnt seem to be dangerous. I do admit she is jealous though, once I went in with a cat on my shoulders and fussed the cat when i should have been loving Babe .. she didnt like that and bit the back of my leg in a threatening ish way... so maybe when in a jealous rage and when suffering from PMT she is dangerous but how many women go like that once a month .. ?? come on hands up!!! I know i turn into a killer... I only ever want a divorce once a month, never more than that!!

So i better get on with my efforts to prove the council wrong, we can sustain life and our own too.. we have now got a veg garden growing grapes, maize, peas beans, strwberries etc, so hopefully they might look a bit daft but it could always go wrong and we will be homeless and look stupid. I cant see us winning but our planning consultant, Les Stephan Associates of Shrewsbury, have decided to be very charitable and come and represent us for nothing, Note to self better remeber them when killing out the Dexter, lol.... So we have decided what we are doing, all this tidying and fixing is for us not the council, if it makes them happy all well and good, but i have given up worrying aboutit, I was homeless for 2 yrs before with 3 kids and we were fine something will come up, right i'm off it windy rainy and cold but lots of jobs to do... enjoy!!