New toys

Our latest arrival to the farm arrived this week. We've finally managed to locally source a Lawn sweeper for our lawnmower. This simple device sits behind the lawn mower and picks up all the cut grass, twigs and assorted rubbish and lets us easily dump it in a place. I just need to learn how to reverse with a trailer. We also bought a Trailer with removal back plate and tipping function and a dethatcher which removes the dead trapped grass and moss from the ground. All this wasn't cheap but will hopefully make maintain our grassed areas better. This will also please Piggy as she gets all the clippings to chew and to make a bed from.

The Local shop were awesome. They assembled and delivered all the equipment for free and then gave us a discount as well! A big thumbs up from us

 

Extreme gardening

We've been trying to improve the quality of our farm. Our vegetable patch and orchard have been overrun with Sycamore tree and weeds particularly wild grape vines. We've tried to to do this by hand to no avail so we called in some locals to help. They recommended that we hire a JCB (with Driver) to dig out all the tree roots of dead trees, and to flatten the area which we want to be our new garden vegetable patch.
So, recently, The locals can and cut down all the weedy trees and mulched them and our local friendly JCB man came and uprooted all the trees. He also leveled our veg patch and used the remain sandy soil to level out our main garden bit. This means we have loads of fire wood, a larger area where we can mow without fear of breaking the lawnmower and we've a new flat level for growing veg. These photos show it all off

Two Steps forward, One back

I'm now at home on the farm trying to do some stuff and today has been a day of good and bad stuff.
The Good stuff

1. I fixed the lawn mower 
2. Successfully cut the lawn
3. Solar shower is now installed on a living tree with no chance of it being cut down
4. I can buy a snow plough directly from the company

Bad stuff

1. Hot tub has been chewed by mice - This needs a lot of care and love to repair
2. New car is back at the mechanic again 
3. Lawn sweeper and trailer for lawnmower will cost £240 in shipping - Have to find local alternatives

Some progress is better then no progress and still feeling the happiest I have for a long time

Dumbing of Ages

Dumbing of Ages is a webcomic which i am particularly fonder of. I mainly discovered it from reading shortpacked.com.
The current story is about the characters going to to church (in between a running plot) and their reactions to it.
What strikes me the most is the way that the Author seems to have experienced the conflict between church/God and the church not being the place where anyone can come Unfortunately, I would say that this

(http://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/02-choosing-my-religion/avoid/) is the most common experience that the people have - But I'm trying to change this :)

Kiss this!

 Watch this video

Who would have thought that Gene Simmons could speak Hungarian so well? Who else knows what else lies behind the Grease paint?

All Quiet on the Blogging front

There has not been a post for ages - Sorry!

This week there will be lots of updates as we are going to get one of our piggies butchered.

We'll have lots of meat as the pig is about 200kg!!! I'll post updates/photos/etc

Right off now to bake some fresh bagels to be served with fresh butter and fried eggs :)

Wonderwoman II

And if by magic, the internet comes up with this!