17 June 2008
Back at last!
Posted by Kate under: Smallholding .
After a bit of a chimney fire back in April, we have been busy trying to put the house back together which has meant we’ve been off line till now.
In the meantime life outside has been continuing apace, especially as the house has been overtaken by plasters, electricians etc. Inconvienient in a way, but the upside of being unable to do much in the house 9am till 4pm Mon to Fri for 10 weeks, is that the land, fencing, animal housing, greenhouse, water butts, and garden have never looked so well kempt.
We now have 1 new ram called Jacobs, 5 new ewes, 2 kittens, 3 ducks, 2 new hens + 2 cade texel crosses and a rescued bunny who is now living the high life. The garden is a riot of colourful edible goodies and with 2 sites to manage life is pretty hectic.
Hopefully I’ll manage to take and upload some pics this week and look forward to checking out websites and finding out what everyones been up to.
7 Comments so far...
Lucy @ Smallest Smallholding Says:
17 June 2008 at 12:55 pm.
Welcome back! I did wonder where you’d got to, I just assumed it was an extra-busy time of year for you. Glad things are getting back to normal. And you have a rescue bunny too - join the club! Sounds as though everything is ticking over nicely, looking forward to catching up 
Cindy Says:
17 June 2008 at 7:01 pm.
Welcome back! Sorry about the fire, sounds like things are getting along well now.
Jo Knight Says:
17 June 2008 at 9:45 pm.
“We know a song about that….!!”
Much the same reason (amongst farming others - like your good selves - ) that we haven’t been able to post for ages, despite our best intentions/efforts.
Just great to know you survived the Big Fire - if still dusting off acres of soot (I know that after suffering the same, we still are…..!)
Love - & heartfelt sympathy - to you & yours….hope the greenhouse is still great BTW & looking far better than our slug-savaged travesty…. (on that note, more depressing stuff later)…..
colour it green Says:
20 June 2008 at 4:21 pm.
oh, glad you are all ok. tell us all - how come you have new animals ?
Anke Sieker Says:
27 June 2008 at 9:54 pm.
I had wondered what happened to you, but hopefully things are back on track! What happened to the sheep+ lambs from earlier this year?