Posted in family, home on 30 April 2008 | 2 Comments »
This is what the fireplace looked like in its original location. Getting it out was interesting and slightly risky as there aren’t many solid surfaces to stand on! However, two days later I’d cleaned it up and it glowed like pewter. Once we’d replastered the end wall and installed it, it looked like this.
The hearth was [...]
Posted in family, farm, garden, home, photography on 29 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Above the inglenook, on the first floor (or where it would be if there was one), was a bedroom with a fireplace of its own. When we renovated our bedroom (we like to call it the master bedroom!) we found it was in a far worse state of repair than first anticipated. For a start, it [...]
Posted in family, farm, home, photography on 28 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Remember I said we had disused parts of our house and that’s where I found a pile of framed photos? I thought I would show you one part of it that has become our very own ruin. This is the old farmhouse kitchen, or what’s left of it. The dark hole to the left of [...]
Posted in farm, garden, home, photography on 27 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is the outside of my ‘potting shed’ (I know, it looks like a chalet) with the trough I acquired last year planted up with herbs. The section where all the plumbing would have gone on the left makes a perfect isolation tub for the mint, which takes over left to its own devices. The [...]
Posted in family, friends, home, photography on 26 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last year, before we discovered mum was ill, we decided we’d ‘do’ a couple of National Trust properties and our first choice was Killerton House. It rained all day, but didn’t stop us walking around the garden, which was magnificent. We each have a digital camera and thought it would be interesting to compare the end photos to see [...]
Posted in Eating Out, family, farm, home, photography on 24 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After milking this morning, Gordon decided we should move the dry cows from one canal bank to the other. The plan was he should go down and open the gates, with Daniel and me following on the quad bike. That was fine in theory, but unfortunately we couldn’t get the quad bike out of reverse [...]
Posted in family, farm, garden, home, photography on 23 April 2008 | 2 Comments »
In the last few days I’ve noticed cowslips on the grass verges beside the road. It’s nice to see this humble flower making a comeback. This one lives in dad’s garden, so it’s a tame cowslip! Gordon says he’s seen red cowslips growing alongside the standard yellow ones on his travels in the morning to [...]
Posted in cross-stitch, family, farm, friends, home, photography on 22 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mum (Jo’s Journal) and I went over to Minehead today to meet up with Julie (KC’s Court). Julie is an old friend that I’ve known for a long time, but we started as penfriends following an advert in a cross-stitching magazine. Many moons ago we did various round robins together and usually arrange to meet [...]
Posted in garden, home, photography, shopping on 21 April 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’m not sure how it happens, but it’s almost as if my resistance fades during the day and by late evening if I’m still on the computer, I tend to buy things. I very much like internet shopping: the variety, the ease, the virtualness of it, and the fact that sooner or later whatever I buy [...]
Posted in family, home, photography on 20 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is our youngest nephew Chris. It’s his birthday today and he’s 18. His brother Daniel works with us on the farm and it’s his birthday today too. He’s 23. We’ve just come back from a ‘birthday party’ at their house with Gordon’s sister Jayne and her husband Mike. When we tell people we have [...]
