Documenting Life on our small holding. Follow the adventures with our animals from birth through to meat production curing of hams, creating bacon, etc, experimenting with producing as much as we can from our little farm. Experience real quality of life. All the ups and downs including Planning permission wars....



Just an everyday walk with the kids!!

Friday 17 September 2010

Winter missery!!

Oh I'm fed up of the weather theres so much to do and it keeps raining...Welshpool has glorious sunshine .... here rain... I have a new boar arriving soon, need to fix his accomodation, I have a broken car again!!! So stuck here, lukily I have a full freezer and store cupboards over flowing so no need for shopping, animal feed all here.. just i dont like the restriction, not being able to get out in an emergency. Andre's asthma is very bad again, and I seem to be a bit low, we seam to have had no summer this year, we have had another 4 piglets, we have a home kill to organise, cockerals to go in the freezer.. Im awaiting a delivery from wynstay we spent a fortune on fencingposts wire etc htey have a good deal on wire netting at the moment, I also have been ebaying and bought £200 worth of fram gates as new for £40 add on £10 for diesel and still winning!! So I need to slap my self and get out and do something...lol .. I'm on a diet and I think it must be getting to me now, I have lost a stone I have given up Ribeana and subsiquently lost my sweat toothe, so am being carefull about what i'm eating... hungary was great lovely weather, red hot... was nice to catch up with everyone but only managed to stay away from the animals for 12 days....It took 2 tanks of diesel in our Peugeot 406 estate which holds 80 litres which is very good, £20 on the ferry crossing. I was very happy to get back to my animal family and Babe my favourite pig wouldn't leave my side, she leaned her head in my knees for half an hour easily... she told me off for leaving her... Well thats it im off to shake my self...