Today was all about the weeding. Weeding around potatoes. It was quite nice in the sometimes sunshine but mostly overclouded but dry weather sitting on the hillside plucking out the weeds and grass from between the potato plants. Ady and I worked alongside each other all day with occassional working alongside us from Alan, Anna …
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All I desire
A lovely lie in this morning, made even better as it was pouring with rain and howling a gale outside. Sleeping in Willow in crappy weather is still a real joy as we all compare it to bad camping weather rather than bad house weather. Living in the van is definitely not proving to be …
slip sliding away
This morning we’d agreed to help bring some firewood down from a high up point on the land so were hanging about waiting for instruction and sitting on a picnic bench. It actually needed moving so we all did that together and then decided to test it’s new citing for view-ability. It’s stunning here 🙂 …
Epic Update
A bit note form as dashed off each evening in a word doc. Quite possibly with repeptitive bits and in need of some editing and some adding in of pics, but better here rather than just in a word doc. Tuesday An epic journey as we left J&J’s and made it down the lane, only …
Ooh, it’s been a while 🙂 I’ve been keeping a brief outline of each day at our current hosts so I don’t forget what’s been happening but had not written anything about our weekend at J&J’s before that and it’s all now merged into one long friend-fest really. So a couple of bits that stand …
I’m glad I’m me
We had a cooked breakfast this morning before wandering into town to see what Market Day was all about. It turned out to be not about very much really with a stall selling cheese, another selling imported clothing from Nepal, one selling cakes and a second hand bookstall that had loads of ladybird books marked …
A damn good thrashing
Spent a lot of today thinking how much Marcus, Michelle and Chloe would enjoy this place; a holiday cottage for three in a village which is a living museum, right up their (historytastic) street 🙂 Another lie in this morning – I could get used to this sleeping in a bed business – albeit still …
relax, take it easy
First of all a lie in, what bliss 🙂 when compiling a list of small things I won’t miss when our year is up one will be having to fit in around Ady and my incompatible sleeping habits. He hates having to stay up til I am ready for bed / I hate having to …
Fit for purpose
I guess we’re on holiday 🙂 We left Jane & Rob’s this morning, pretty much dead on our intended time of 10am. Ady had done a quick google on his phone for directions and we’d been thinking it was about 100miles so it was a bit of a shock to put it in the satnav …
shear and shear alike
Our last day here. First thing we carried on in the orchard where we were working yesterday and did some more nettle clearing then Jane called us to come and watch Rob finish off shearing one of the sheep. They have four ewes and four lambs here, two of the ewes and two lambs are …
Grumble Fail? Tumble Ale? Fumble tale?
This morning we had various tasks to do; the kids did some painting fence posts with bitumen paint so they don’t rot when they are sunk into the ground, Ady and I did some collecting wood and grading it into piles, stacking some and putting some in another pile for further cutting, barrowed some bags …
Improv Savvy
Which is a phrase rather wasted on my blog readers as it’s an in-joke with a couple of workmates from the library, none of whom read this, but it came to me this evening while watching Davies and Scarlett and made me smile recalling an evening out with those work mates so I decided any …
Day Off
Had a bit of a lie in this morning although living in a van the size of a boxroom with three other people means no one gets to lie in much. Ady did some van tidying, the kids sat in the sunshine watching the sheep and I had some laptop time then we packed up …
Tuesday and Wednesday
Yesterday I blogged over on WW as my photoblog. I don’t think I have much to add to that really. Peter is nice, reminds me a lot of Ady’s brother Chris. I liked him and particularly liked his style of WWOOF hosting which involved drinking lots of tea, sitting around chatting lots, listening to us …
Just turn around and we’re gone again
Moving on day again 🙂 But first I was covering the office as Jill was off buying furniture and Shirley was off volunteering at the TIC. I was tasked with ‘making new friends on twitter and facebook’ and given usernames and passwords for both accounts, so I spent a happy couple of hours following and …
It’s just as well I’m not 47
otherwise my advancing years may mean I struggled to recall a three day catch up 😉 Friday Ady’s birthday 🙂 Everyone was up early – some more reluctantly than others given it was our only day off this week – for present opening. We’d got gimmicky gifts such as a screwdriver with multiple heads (one …
I can whistle while I’m humming
This morning I was manning the office again, Shirley was on day off, Jill was volunteering at the local Tourist Info Office and Amanda the office manager was at her son’s school for a leaving ceremony. I was tasked with ‘doing stuff on ‘Twitter and Facebook’ so I uploaded some pictures onto the facebook site …
Something and nothing
I had a really bad nights sleep, awake twice with a bad tummy, at least twice with nightmares and at least once finding myself squashed halfway down the bed wondering why my feet were hanging so far off the end. Clearly I’m out of practise at being in an actual bed 😉 This morning Ady …
But is it educational?
It’s a funny old life this; back when I used to sit in the house, spend my days chatting with friends or hanging out online I had utter confidence in the kids gaining an education. Now I am travelling the country, exposing them to a different lifestyle every couple of weeks with a huge array …
Pretend WWOOFing
This morning Ady was up first to open the pool, the rest of us at a more leisurely pace. I am definitely enjoying not *having* to go to bed at a certain time because Ady needs to and he is enjoying not *having* to stay up because I want to ;). My main task for …