Category: Family Diary
Trees and snow at dawn
By getting up on the hill by sunrise, Lisa and I mananged to get 120 trees planted before we decided to retreat from the snow and get home while we could! That’s 2720 so far, 3280 to go.
Willow fish, hearts, tunnels and domes!
After the very unfriendly willow planting weather that has compressed the entire planting season into four very busy weeks, we’re finally away. We’ve just finished our largest structure to date, a 400 square foot willow maze of tunnels in the […]
The Matrix rocks!
I’ve just finished watching the last of the Matrix trilogy that I’ve been working my way through over the last week. Wow. I’ve watched them all a few times in the past, but I’d forgotten – well the sensation had […]
Girls, Girls, Girls
Rose and I have come to spend a few days at my parents house, and my mum and sister Ceri have got their hands on Rose: tiara, pink track-suit, excessive jewellery and high heel shoes – and get this – combed […]
Allotments, Pirates and Britney
Lisa is really getting stuck into the allotment and sorting out some permanent paths for the place. We have now have about six tonnes of wood chip 200 yards away from allotment – hands off you fellow allotment owners! If anyone […]
We all love maps
I’m a great lover of maps. I can spend many a happy hour poring over maps, especially local maps, looking for a new, undiscovered corner to discover. So you can imagine my delight when Rose drew her first map (that […]
Letter from Ffarmers
After the usual frantic start to the day trying to get everyone and everything together, Rose and I headed up to the cottage to do a change-over. The plan was to get there by 10:30 to leave us a bit […]
Rosie’s Day: Baking, Hugging and Swimming
Well I think Rose has had the busiest and most news worthy day of us all, so I’ll dedicate today’s post to her. She started it off doing a bit of baking with Mum. Rose had bought a fairy cake […]
Guilt free Idleness
I’ve been making a big effort to try and reduce the amount of time I spend working, and increase the amount of time I spend idling – “Don’t do anything that isn’t play”! I’ve been doggedly studying the works of Tom […]