Smallholding Self Sufficient Meal

Just a short post to let you all know that today we enjoyed our first self sufficient meal of the season.

We know that we are never going to be totally self sufficient here but we do try to grow as much as we can to keep what we have to buy to an absolute minimum.

On todays menu Sharon cooked up our own raised very free range chicken accompanied by cabbage, carrots & new potatoes all from our polytunnel the gravy was made from the vegetable water.

Hopefully there will be many more self sufficient meals to come from our smallholding, I will keep you posted.

Putting The Ducks To Bed

Its been quite a while since my last post, I have been trying in vain to get the house renovations finished but to no avail.
Something always seems to get in the way, I have been very busy with my busioness which has been taking up most of my time and so I could go on.

Anyway I have decided life is to short to go worrying about such things and I am going to aproach things in a more relaxed fashion and not always like a bull at a gate. I am also going to make time in my life to enjoy it & do some of the things I enjoy.

Since I last wrote our duck population has grown and we now have 8 white ducks who live hapily with the 2 geese on our top pond, there is a trio of young adults and 5 of their youngsters.
Initially it was a major task every night trying to get them off the pond and locked up in their shed, but after a lot of persistance we now have it down to a fine art.

Ive made a short video for you showing my nightly exploits

As you can see they know whos boss (sometimes)