Today we spent the morning with Chris & Owen moving brash heaps. There are five of us WWOOFing at the moment – us, Ray the guy from Taiwan and a localish couple called Amy & Paul who are here to see if WWOOFing is for them. Amy keeps disappearing to cry and Paul is so …
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Last Monday
Yesterday we had a nice hanging out in the woods day with barbecued meat for lunch cooked in the fire pit next to our tent which was lovely :). In the afternoon the kids went off to play with sisters D and A who they get on really well with and Ady and I went …
End of week one
Fridays here are communal work party days when everyone available, members of the community and WWOOFers all work together on one project. This was an idea to try and ensure the community still work together on things regularly, so if there is a specific all-community project to be worked on that is done, if not …
Super Quick Update against the clock
MiFi battery running out so have plugged it into laptop which is also draining fast – don’t think the technology likes the cold! Yesterday I did blog over on WW – we were with Chris & Owen all day. In the morning we did fence building – really enjoyed that. We’re using brash (cut branches …
Another quick one
Laptop battery is limited although I can charge it up tomorrow once the sun is shining and solar power kicks back in 🙂 I will do a proper post over on WW but that may need more editing so getting more of a no-holds barred account here is better on limited time. Last night was …
Let adventure commence
I’ll blog on WW tomorrow when we’ve actually done a full day but wanted to catch up on here with first impressions. We left the campsite this morning after charging everything up and having showers and Willow started and got here fine. We only had a postcode and the community is not marked from the …
Suspect it might be over and out for a while
Yesterday we walked along the canal path to Tesco for two days food supplies. It’s a good hours walk at a fairly good pace so I reckon it must be about 5 miles there and back. We took some self timers today and one of them was dreadfully unflattering catching me at my worst angle …
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Devon
We’ve done lots of walking these last two days. Walking seems to be the new driving and in the same way we often had our most interesting questions from the kids and general conversations while driving we are doing plenty of talking too. The walking is a mix of death defying walks along roads with …
walking, star gazing and pubic transport
We had showers this morning and a fairly lazy start to the day. It was freezing cold and the van was cosy so no one felt particularly inclined to leave it. But we had things to do and didn’t want to just let the day drift by too much. So we listened to Popmaster and …
Ooh, it’s a bit dusty in here!
let me see how much I can remember: Thursday we had a really nice evening with Caz and Bid. Davies and Scarlett slept in the house while Ady and I slept in the van. Friday Ady, Bid and Scarlett took the dogs for a long walk in the morning and spent time looking at nesting …
the sun is shining
The first night in Willow went really well. I had to get up twice for a wee which may mean we rethink who sleeps on the outside of the bed but it was cosy, comfy and already feels like home 🙂 Chris had already gone to work by the time we got up but we …
Leaving Osborne Drive
Ady and I both had really bad nights sleep last night. Practical reasons included it being bloody freezing (we’d foolishly gone to sleep with just fleece blankets over us as the fire was lit and the heating on so it felt warm. At 3am the fire had gone out, as had the heating.), the camping …
Busy like bees
A huge job list today, pretty much all of which we got done. I did quite a bit of managing though as Davies and Scarlett were prone to meander about a bit if not guided and Ady has a tendancy to clean frantically while not actually achieving much. He spent ages on the draining board …
Bye Then
After a truly hungover Friday during which I failed to do much towards leaving the house next week let alone preparing for the party I was feeling better on Saturday but hugely unprepared for the party. I think it’s the first party ever when we’ve not had someone staying with us the night before so …
Final battering of the liver
It is a universal truth that if you have a crashing hangover men will come and dig the road up outside your bedroom window from 8am 🙁 The four cockerels were doing a crowing chorus, there was a mini digger trashing our daffodils on the verge outside the house putting in electricity to the new …
Quick catchup!
My last day at work. A really odd feeling leaving a job without another one to go to. I’ve done it once or twice before; once I was asked to leave a job and didn’t have another one lined up, once I left one myself without another lined up because I hated it so much …
boxing and baking
Today’s job list included making a cake for the party on Saturday and moving more boxes to Mum & Dad’s. I also had a couple of online bits to do including a sponsored post which I was rather agonising over. I did some of the online stuff while Tarly finished a painting she was doing …
And they all look just the same
Cinnamon rolls for breakfast, dough on for rolls for lunch, various laundry processed, chickens dealt with and job list written for the day and systematically ticked off. So this morning I did car insurance for the Sharan sorting (I’ve moved to a PAYG policy and needed to check the end date), cancelling breakdown cover for …
Barn owls, family, boxes
It was Pulborough Brooks day today and we’ve not made it along for months but we made the effort today as it’ll be the last time we go there for quite a while. It was another gorgeous spring-like day. I saw one of Julie’s friends in the car park but despite seeing Julie’s car we …
Remember me?
I’m Nic and I used to not eat lentils and blog every day! Yesterday morning we’d arranged to go and collect Willow, so I made some cinnamon rolls (at kids request I’d stuck the dough on the night before) and we left them to prove and headed over to Lance. He stuck to the promised …