The Good Life...Ish.

Hello all! The Polygreen is all finished!  Also, not only is it finished, you may noticed it has been moved too!  With the garden being so exposed, i decided it would be better for it to be side on to the wind, rather than head on, that way, hopefully, the wind will just go straight over the top.  It's been quite a learning curve, figuring out how to keep it all together, stop it from flying away or collapsing! A new sign for the garden gate. The back wall being put up. A bench for the plants to sit on It's also just nice to sit in and just chill out with my morning coffee, as well as to grow plants in. Last week saw me being given rather a lot of plants! A friend down the road gave me 6 tomato plants, and the bloke who gave me the blackcurrant bushes last year turned up with MORE tomato plants, so i now have 11 to try and keep alive haha. He also brought some pepper plants, courgette, rosemary, borage and sage. I origi...

*Peers round corner* Hello? Is anyone there? First of all, i would like to apologize for being so long updating here! It's been pretty busy around here, especially in the past month or two, and i have been updating mostly via Instagram.  We discovered that The Bearded Wonder has been having quite big heart issues , so much so that he was initially referred to get a pacemaker fitted, but on the day of his surgery the surgeon decided he was too young for a pacemaker and ended up fitting him with an under the skin monitor instead, which shall be in for 3 years, then he'll be re-assessed to see if a pacemaker is more suitable. He is doing well, and recovering nicely from the surgery. In other news, today is the day that Angus has been in our lives for a whole year! He was so tiny then. Somehow, out of nowhere, he has turned into this really fat, obnoxious fluffball! We are still enjoying going out and about on the bikes, and we are looking fo...

Hi guys :)  Some of you will know that Pam over at  A New Life In Wales  had a little give-away last week, the prize being Kirstie Allsopp's Christmas Crafts book. Well, by some miracle i actually won! (i never win anything!) So she popped it in the post and it turned up this afternoon, and my goodness what a lovely , thoughtful lady Pam is. I was expecting (as you do when a book is posted) for it to turn up in either a large cardboard envelope, or one of those little slim boxes you can buy for posting books and the like. What i wasn't expecting was for a second Christmas to turn up, neatly packaged in a recycled Amazon box! Wowee! First out of the box was a mini mountain of sweets!  I squealed and immediately popped a toffee in my mouth. Delicious!  (Though i get the feeling they will have to be hidden away and rationed out, or the lovely Bearded Wonder will pinch the lot and i won't get a look in ;)  ) Next came th...