We’re at New House Farm this week. Bob and Mary seem very nice but clearly domestic issues are rife as they have seperated. We’ve met two of their four daughters who also seem nice and some of the many people who seem to live and work on the land here including a blacksmith, a guy …
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Catchuptastic
I’ve missed so many days I imagine this post won’t have much change out of about a thousand words 🙂 So, where were we? Wednesday I believe 🙂 Lynda and Stuart were both off out for the day – Lynda still does childminding a couple of days a week for a local family who keep …
Being normal
We’re loving these few days at Lynda and Stuart’s, it’s like we never left home to do anything mad and crazy! This morning we rang my Mum as it’s her birthday and then we all hung around chatting / playing / drinking tea. The kids and I walked to the bakers to get some rolls …
Pretending to be Home Educators again
Today I’d arranged to meet up with my friend Jay. I met her online quite a few years ago and although we’ve only met in real life a handful of times she is one of those people I wished I live next door to – I know we’d be in and out of each others …
Friends – old and new
Saturday morning we got up and packed up. It always takes longer than you expect and it was no exception. We said goodbye to Lisa and Carina who were heading into town and then John came to say Eric had rung to ask if we were going to visit him or not. We’d decided as …
And all for under a pound you know
I enjoyed a lie in til about 930am as did Davies. Ady and Scarlett had been doing some hand washing of the last of our dirty clothes which led to some amusing spin drying before we hung them out 🙂 Then we headed off into Bangor. We were determined to spend a Millets voucher that …
When we arrived here the hosts daughter, Carina (14) was all depressed and mopey because she had had to cancel a trip to America due to a whiplash injury the previous week. Very understandably as the America trip sounded fab. The whiplash was from a slamming on the brakes incident in Lisa’s car and was …
Penultimate Day
of actually working here 🙂 We started this morning with some fruit picking – raspberries, jostaberries, gooseberries, tayberries and loganberries. I did some pinching off side shoots on tomatoe plants and then that was followed by cuprinol-ing the ends of some cut wood that John is planning to use as cordwood on a building he …
Drink me, honey honey, drink me :)
This morning was bottling mead. Oh how very Nic-proproiate 🙂 We started by gathering some empty wine bottles – Lisa and John have friend who have a campsite and gather wine bottles from their recycling to give to them to use. We soaked them in the bath (which I had to clean first! :shock:) to …
Kiss me, honey, honey, kiss me
Choices offered this morning were bottling honey or feeding plants (with wee dilution for the roots and seaweed extract for the leaves). I went for the honey bottling 😉 Actually Ady was quite happy to be volunteered for the feeding anyway as he’d not done that last week. Davies came with me and Scarlett went …
Found it!
January 2004 and somewhere at home I have one of Ady and I in August 1993!
Weekend we were in Bangor
Saturday Charity shop shopping in Bangor 🙂 We got up, breakfasted and then walked in. I reckon it was about 4 miles in to the actual city centre. Not a lovely walk, as roadside all the way, passing loads of big retail sheds but we did spot a lane leading off in an interesting fashion …
Fer fer fer Friday
This morning after letting out the ducks we did some more sowing (carrots, rocket) and some transplating (cabbage, beetroot) and some weeding. I picked some strawberries and raspberries too. That took us to lunchtime pretty much and then I hung some washing out – we asked if we could use the washing machine but Lisa …
Revenge of the hogweed
On Monday afternoon we did some strimming,
Horseshoe Pass November 2011 March 2004
Crazyversary
I liked the title so much I have littered the internet with it – twitter (both accounts), blogs (both blogs) and may start graffiti-ing it in places too – look out for a flashmob style sweep of the word in the Bangor area – I reckon I could re-write the lyrics to ‘Didn’t we have …
Longest Day
One of the very interesting things about WWOOFing is coming to realise that managing people is actually a very valuable skill. One which lots of people simply don’t possess. Being able to clearly explain what you want someone to do, giving the right level of guidance to ensure you have got the idea across without …
Land of my father
So in an attempt to turn the negative of extended stay at Bryn Mawr and missing out on the next planned host I asked my parents if they wanted to come up and join us for the end of the week during one of our rare phonecalls. Mum managed to take Thursday and Friday off …
Bryn Mawr – the debrief
I’m writing about the last host for the WW blog and we all felt the need to write a rather less public good, bad and learnt too so I’ll stick it here. I didn’t record that much of what was hard at the time and actually now we are out the other side and it’s …
Not getting a lot of time for a proper catch up really!
But know I must otherwise it will be forgotten and swallowed up in the mists of time. So on Wednesday I was in the depths of despair after my hillside sobbing of the night before. It was pissing with rain and I refused to put waterproofs on out of some fit of childish curlishness and …
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