About that time aye chaps?

Well, it has been a while hasn't it? Summer vaguely came and went and now were on to Autumn again (waking up in the dark, needing jumpers after 5pm, students hogging train space...) This is more of a photo story of things we've recently been up to, with little witty yet profound annotations. I will update more at some point, but not while the work day is looming!


Ahhh! The arrival of our new Turkeys, this year we have 4 varieties, Norfolk Blacks, like last year, Buffs, Bronzes and Narrowgan Sets. We started off with 12 but lost one quite quickly which was sad, but the rest are fit and healthy and happy!


Some of our Early Summer Croppings.


Courgettes: One of the few veg to have survived this weather!


Brad up the wind turbine, a rather unnerving event which no longer has to happen as we have a new one which doesn't need manually resetting!


James and Brad planting peas in the snow!



Lemmy our Rhode Island Red munching all the slugs from our pumpkin bucket, her backs getting better now we only have one Cockerel.



The girls left us on the day of my first driving test, but we miss them.


Now for what we've been doing this week:


The Melon-Dick is a clue, and the cows our neighbours, one had a calf last week, very sweet!


The Men hard at work!


Putting together the geodome. An exclusive shot mind you! This is going to be our new hydroponics unit, were we will grow... melons! and the such like (I know what you were thinking, tsk) This is the stage it is currently at, I'll add more photos when its done!


James and Brad putting up the dome, with the view down the valley. Not sure what the neighbours are going to think.


The domes formed of pentagons and hexagons, which arrived in bits, not coated in plastic, its been a long few days!

Arty shot of melon head.


Arty shot of the dome - its a star! :D x x x

A rather belated Happy New Year!

I am aware its March now and thus I have been seriously RUBBISH at updating this blog, but I mean well, and have been most busy.

Well... this update may be rather out of date order but I'll try.

Our Christmas season started with the end of the Turkeys. This was quite the experience for both of us, emotionally a physically tiring, but at the same time a great thing to be a part of. This took up our last two days of work before we drove home for Christmas, the start of which was spent in London catching up with friends and family, and also included the most amazing Christmas dinner EVER! Our turkeys were well worth the effort! This was followed by an incredibly early boxing day morning and a relatively short journey back to Cornwall where we had Christmas take two in Newquay, we were slightly more tired this time but it was still very lovely.

The New Year came and went and we were back at work. January was a rather long month for both of us, and now we cant really remember what happened, we worked a bit, played a bit and I ran out of money so had to go find another job, so I'm now a cleaner at our local pub!

February was taken up with a lot of work on the garden, tidying up and plating out the earlies. I have been getting down to my learning, both my RHS course and my driving lessons are going really well and mid-Feb I passed my theory test! Yey! Late Feb saw Bradley off to London for 'Eco Build' a 3 day conference thing, which he enjoyed a lot, whilst I enjoyed sleeping in the middle of the bed!

Now it is March and we are continuing with the serious garden work. Taking frequent trips to the Eden project and getting ready to say goodbye to the pigs :S

I will try update more often from now x x x