New room
Our house is the house that just keeps on giving. We broke through into what was once our house’s coal hole yesterday and will soon have a new room – which we’ll use as a utility room. Our neighbours...
View ArticleChicken shelter from two old pallets
I finally built my long-awaited shelter for the chicken run on Saturday – hurrah! It will provide more stomping space (since they can stomp around underneath and on top), more shelter for the rain and...
View ArticleAn expensive lesson
As I mentioned in my “spending during my no spend week” round-up, our boiler broke and had to be fixed this week. It stopped working last Sunday – we thought it was just a sensor playing up but when...
View ArticleFrozen beck, unfrozen pipes
I took these pictures of the beck (stream) at the bottom of our garden yesterday afternoon. (Downstream/upstream respectively) And I took this picture of the water pipe in our kitchen after we’d...
View ArticleOur long weekend
Cor, I feel like I’ve not written here for weeks! Like Christmas, Easter doesn’t mean anything to us here – not even the consumption of chocolate – so we’ve just had four days of doing nothing. Well,...
View ArticleTen things
Buff the chicken has been in isolation since last Wednesday since the others started really *viciously* bullying her (as I said on Twitter, it’s disturbing how vicious chickens can be). I think there...
View ArticleToday I…
Today I slept late because we were up til the early hours putting the world to rights with a friend. When we’re elected supreme rulers of the world, things are gonna be sweeeeet. ;) Today I sanded and...
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