admin | September 30, 2007
Today my husband and I entered the Weetabix Crop Art Competition to build a structure using wheat bales. If we win we will have turned our bales into £3000, so it is very exciting and I have to say that it was alot of fun. We decided to build a tractor, what do you think [...]
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admin | September 30, 2007
My mum filled my hanging basket for the Winter, so thanks Mum. I think it looks lovely filled with ajuga, violas and ivy.
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admin | September 30, 2007
Carol @ May Dreams Gardens has a gardenblogger’s book club which I think is a brilliant idea. I have always wanted to be in a book club but always worried that I would turn up to the meeting and be the only one who had not finished the book. Anyway Carol’s club is great because [...]
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admin | September 30, 2007
What an honour it is to be tagged by my new blogpal, Curtis @ Growing Thumbs. So You Think You Know Me is a tag that asks you to reveal some facts about yourself. The facts can be funny, random and weird! I have decided to link my facts to my life on the farm, [...]
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admin | September 29, 2007
The Foot And Mouth Disease that plagued the UK back in 2001 is back in the UK and with a number of FMD cases identified in the last few months it is important that everyone knows what signs to look out for.
“Foot and mouth disease is an infectious disease affecting cloven-hoofed animals, in particular cattle, [...]
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admin | September 28, 2007
This week’s Photo Hunt Theme is original and I have decided to share some of my original art work which I really like. This original art work has an Autumnal feel to it.
If you would like to create Autumnal art like this, then go out and collect a variety of different coloured leaves. Lay the [...]
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admin | September 28, 2007
Earlier in September, the calves that were born last year, moved back indoors into the fold yard for the Winter. The reason for this is because the grass in the paddock and back field had all been eaten and the weather was beginning to turn colder and wetter. Bringing the cattle into the fold yard for the [...]
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admin | September 28, 2007
As a school teacher and a farmer’s wife, I often have to contemplate the meaning of harvest festival, as the Autumn approaches. The scary thing I have found is that children (at the school I work in at least!) do not understand the meaning of harvest, despite having a harvest festival every year. So I [...]
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admin | September 28, 2007
The Foot And Mouth Disease that plagued the UK back in 2001 is back in the UK and with a number of FMD cases identified in the last few months it is important that everyone knows what signs to look out for.
“Foot and mouth disease is an infectious disease affecting cloven-hoofed animals, in particular cattle, sheep, pigs, [...]
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admin | September 27, 2007
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