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Our Smallholding Adventure: Chicken and egg

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Saturday, 7 January 2017. Today, Ste and my Dad have been putting a greenhouse frame together and covered it in mesh. This is going to be used as a fruit cage this coming year. It is very light to lift so I can see it lending itself to multiple jobs. Grace and I collected the soil from the ever growing mole hills and put it into one of the new beds. It only took 20 mins and we may as well see the silver lining in it. Also, home made pizza on the menu yesterday - love home made :). 7 January 2017 at 12:06.

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Our Smallholding Adventure: Recipe books and geese

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Wednesday, 4 January 2017. Recipe books and geese. Remember Ryan the goose? Well turns out he should be called Rhianna or whatever the female equivalent of Ryan would be. Our male goose confirmed it yesterday. One of our other female geese has been acting strange again which means she is either poorly or laying eggs again. Turns out she had stashed 3 eggs in the shed. Frugal in Essex Tania. 4 January 2017 at 13:05. Tracy Chadfield (was The Croods). 5 January 2017 at 04:14. 4 January 2017 at 13:30. I hope...

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Our Smallholding Adventure: Preparing for winter....small steps

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Monday, 9 January 2017. Preparing for winter.small steps. There is a cold front coming towards the end of the week so I’m making plans to ensure we don’t get caught out. The last thing we want to be doing is walking to the wood store or topping up the outside animals’ bedding when it’s either raining or snowing, which is predicted. According to today’s forecast on the BBC for our postcode, the temperature will drop from Thursday. So the plan is:. Have all hats, scarves and gloves ready. Planning a little...

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Our Smallholding Adventure: 2016 Oil, electricity, water and other bills plus a few 2017 plans

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Friday, 6 January 2017. 2016 Oil, electricity, water and other bills plus a few 2017 plans. Sorry for no photos on this one, it's more about keeping records! In our first year in the house we’ve used 4500 litres of oil and it cost us £1402.02 plus £50.97 in additives for the oil. There’s enough in the tank to see us until the end of Jan and maybe beyond but as we moved in on 15. Jan, this will balance out. I shall compare usage and cost with 2017. I do love doing things like that. Water was £322. It was ...

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Our Smallholding Adventure: January 2017

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Tuesday, 31 January 2017. Eggs is eggs - January round up. We had a good egg month considering it's January. Our girls have supplied us with slightly over 400 eggs through January which is amazing considering it's one of the quieter months normally. I don't have the exact number as I started recording on 7th January. The geese are laying more now, so we're taking her eggs away and using them. I'll see if there's an interest in people buying them, though folk sometimes have strange ideas and think a g...

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Our Smallholding Adventure: July 2016

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Thursday, 28 July 2016. Young hen eggs, new life and redcurrant cordial (and menu plan 4). My blog seems to have had it knickers in a knot with pictures and postings, user error I’m sure, so apologies if you see things twice! I think I have it fixed now though. Just in time for this, my 100. Of our many chickens, I have 2, a cockerel and a hen that are a special breed to me, Lakenvelder. I think they’re stunning looking in black, white and red and always draw my attention. They were 22 weeks old on 23.

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Our Smallholding Adventure: May 2016

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Friday, 27 May 2016. Party plans amongst other things. I don’t know if I am imagining it but I think I can already see the difference in the fields from the rain. I’m hoping for some sun after the downpours we’ve had and then maybe everything will have a growth burst. The greenhouse has been firmly shut up to keep the heat in for the last day or two, opposed to the previous week when the doors were flung open along with every vent I could find as things were struggling in the intense heat. Now granted, t...

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Our Smallholding Adventure: Loving the January feeling

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Tuesday, 3 January 2017. Loving the January feeling. All too often, I hear people saying how miserable January is, it's ages until pay day, nothing to do on dark nights, bored etc etc. I don't fall into that category any more. I am not sure I ever did. For me, in my new life, it's all about planning and getting organised for the coming weeks, months and years. The weather is due to turn cold again here. I do enjoy a cold spell, no rain though, can't be done with rain. 3 January 2017 at 22:05. Oh yes, I c...