First of all, sorry for the delay: It must be five months since my last blog, I have no excuses what so ever for this.
Since I last spoke to you mist of my time has been taken up with the basics!!
I have plenty of leaks in the roof, though these will have to just accept the temporary repairs until I can afford to do it properly...a long time in the future. I have installed a new sewage system, the old one was 25 years old and had never been emptied!!
My chickens have stopped lying due to the now cold weather, and I am desperately trying to fine a more suitable location for them as the hutch keeps getting blown over.
I have two of my own raised beds now in place: awaiting the manure that I have to collect once I borrow a trailer.
By good fortune a local farmer friend of mine called me up the other day to ask if I wanted a deer. A strange question to most, however to me it means venison for the freezer. It is currently hanging in my garage and I shall be practicing my butchery skills next week. Incidental the deer did die of natural causes (getting stuck in a fence). Though I am certainly not against shooting game...I should of had six or seven pheasants and nine or ten rabbits this year with my gun...I just can't seem to shoot straight. Plenty of time still left however.
My Christmas wish list as it stands: A greenhouse, another two raised beds, more hens, a bottle of chateau-neuf du pape and a large variety of pipe tobacco and cigars
That will do for now, photos shall follow soon of all I can.
