Mad!!
I haven't blogged in ages as we have been back in the UK, visiting family and friends. It's good to be home though, and as you can see, this pair are happy to be reunited!!
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Article 23
I hope you like the photo above. Somehow a random Limousin cow appeared in the field and the photo is of my colt, Appie, treating it with some suspicion!! This is Tom the stallion wearing our new all...
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Getting Christmassy
This is my friend Rosie - I dragged her into the woods yesterday to collect lots of green stuff to make some Christmas decorations. I like just using the stuff that grows around us here Neil is very...
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First floor for Christmas
He's only gone and done it!! My lovely husband has managed to get the oak flooring down and we no longer have to risk life and limb walking from one end of the house to the other. It looks great, and...
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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to you - and here the New Year has bought a new spurt of activity. Jason has somehow encouraged some good friends of his to come over for a working party next month, one of whom is an...
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Article 18
Neil is working like mad and has repaired the wall above the barn door and with Keith's help has reconstructed what was a pigeon house above the barn door and made it look much more attractive. You may...
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La boîte de nuit du père noël
Look innocent don't they?! The little swine second in line (Baron - aged a few months) has been taking full advantage of my electric fence not working properly and escaped 3 times yesterday. Today we...
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Very kindly Sue who writes a blog called Writing Home has recommended our blog for a Leibster blog award. As a recipient of the award I can also recommend five other blogs. I read very few blogs due to...
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Frozen pipes, cars and people!!
Another long gap between blogs - I would apologise but we have just been trying to keep warm and working!! At the end of last month the farrier came to trim Appies feet. He behaved impeccably (Appie...
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Having received the Leibster award (see here) this is my first recommendation if you are looking for a blog to read - Veras blog Snippets from Labartere Vera is renovating her house and running a...
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Loo-ney Lenny
There was a bit of a feline commotion in the en-suite this morning and Lenny the cat (the scrounger on the chair on the right) flew onto the bed for a cuddle. As I started to stroke him I noticed he...
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Having witnessed some very late cranes flying south only a couple of weeks ago I was gobsmacked yesterday to see a large group flying North again. Do they know something we don't? I couldn't believe it...
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more progress
The dynamic duo are on form again and now working on the barn, hopefully soon to be lounge. Neil has been pointing the wall and Keith has started to build the fireplace. We needed the hearth to be...
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Martin in New Zealand - if you are reading this please call us (or Jane and Den) urgently xx
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Article 9
Do you see that thing on the wall on the left of the picture below? it's a radiator!!!!!! How amazing is that?!! Jase came up trumps again and bought out a working party consisting of Mel and his mate...
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Up on the Roooofffff!!!!
Here is Neil on the roof fitting the chimney pipe. He looks quite happy in the picture but that was a brief moment in between swearing, as the pipe came out a bit closer to the ridge than he would of...
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Hello everybody – it has been bought to my attention just how long it is since the last blog – time is just whizzing by, and I just haven’t been getting round to it, even I was shocked when I realised...
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Sorry everyone!
I apologise for the lack of blogging - I was running out of things to say about the house renovation - so I guess I took a bit of a break.... Things are changing big time, not only with the house but...
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Warm for winter?
Neil is busy in the barn insulating the wall so that we can get some plasterboard up. It's supposed to be summer, and although we haven't had the dreadful weather the UK have been experiencing, it is...
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Some more pics for you!!
There is a tangible sense of expectation in the air - the bi-fold doors are arriving on Sunday and another burst of activity from Neil and the lovely Keith is moving things on once again. Keith is...
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A Stick Insect with a Stick insect!!!!
Neil spotted this fella clinging on to the front door this afternoon. See below the video of the old beam being put in position - the addition of a fireplace is really turning the space into a 'room',...
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Pig in Poo!!
Hurrah for progress - here is the fireplace which I absolutely love - we hope it kind of looks like it was always there (apart from the central heating pipes!!) Keith has built an absolute work of art...
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