Tales of thrift and self-reliance on a journey to early retirement.
Well, if I thought the previous week was busy I was in for a shock last week. I edited the same amount of reports in five days as I did in the previous three weeks collectively. I limped over the finish line last Friday evening, absolutely shattered. Holidays are over, kids ...
It's been a beautiful quiet weekend so far. So far there's been pancakes for breakfast, homemade soup for lunch and dinner, and lots of lots of reading and dvd watching. I'm really starting to enjoy the weekends far more than I ever used to. Just a few months ago, ...
Cleaning up the fleeces from the two Whitefaced Woodland sheep has been an interesting experience. Who knew those two were so filthy!! Even though I soaked both fleeces overnight in cold water both of them were heavily stained with sweat and minerals from the dirt. Still, ...
When I took our first lot of sheep to slaughter, I was unsure if I wanted to keep sheep again. I hadn't been very happy with the experience of keeping them - they were too boisterous, I kept getting bruised on their horns and the cats and chickens suffered, as did our bank balance. ...
It's been a pretty big week. We had a new boiler fitted outside the house. The previous boiler was sited inside the utility room and while legal when installed 23-odd years ago, in 2018 it broke just about every regulation there is. Now instead of something that is ...
Yesterday I picked 14lbs of plums from our small Victoria plum tree and a kind farmer added another 3lbs to that. The simultaneous arrival of multiple packs of butter in the fridge signals that crumble season has begun, so this evening while dinner cooked I made six crumbles, ...
