of everything, but quite specifically wine to post a proper lucid blog post but as I am filled with good intentions I will do something in note form.
Awake earlyish (for me) to feed the animals as Ady was off to the larder to process venison. It is quite literally like a zoo with chaos reining until they are all fed and then blissful peace as they all munch on their breakfast. The pigs need feeding first as they may escape, then the chickens, ducks and geese (ducks need letting out as they are penned overnight so we can collect their eggs), while they are distracted I sneak off with the turkeys to feed them somewhere else in a covert manner – they are eating growers pellets rather than layers but also need to away from the others otherwise they get bullied away from their food. I did some egg collecting and pig watering and then came back up. Scarlett had joined me in her pjs as Bonnie had come back up to the static having got a shot to the nose from the pig fence and woken Tarly up.
Breakfast for kids while I washed up and we all chatted about plans for the day. I made some yoghurt and washed up a load of jam jars which had been kicking around in the kitchen for ages, then sorted out the kitchen cupboard. I had a form to print off and needed to sign up to companies house for directorship of IRCT so headed down to the trust office to do that. I met Ady along the way which I had been anticipating so we stopped to catch up and then he came up home while I carried on to the village.
Various things done I came home and we all had lunch together. Neil popped up for a cup of tea and chat about a couple of things in the afternoon. Ady brushed down the sporran which was covered in turkey and goose poo while I made bread, pastry and got the washing in. I then popped down to the polytunnel to do some watering and pick some salad. Dinner was quiche with our eggs and salad from the herb spiral and polytunnel along with Katy Salmon’s carrot salad. I have this tatty old blue notebook filled with recipes and where I got them from – lots of you are in there along with some recipes we gathered while travelling. Both children have asked me if they can have the book when I die!
Vikki came up for dinner and we had a really nice evening. The nights are drawing in and it’s dark not long after 9pm now which is a real culture shock. I reminded myself at 5pm that in just a few weeks it will be dark by then.
Knackered now so off to bed, but I blogged! 🙂