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Weetabix Crop Art Competition

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 [...]

Winter Hanging Basket – Green Thumb Sunday

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.
What plants are in your hanging basket at the moment?

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Ajuga Flowers Green Thumb Sunday [...]

Gardenblogger’s Book Club

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 [...]

So You Think You Know Me

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, [...]

Signs Of Foot And Mouth Disease In Sheep

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, [...]

Photo Hunt: Theme Original

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 [...]

Cattle Move Indoors

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 [...]

Harvest Festival

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 [...]

Signs Of Foot And Mouth Disease In Pigs

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, [...]

Jigsaw Puzzle – Hatty The Hen

admin | September 27, 2007