really old style living?

zarazara

Well Done smileyt.

zarazara

kippers wrote: »

I love this thread.

I have had an allotment for over 5 years now and at the beginning of this year i got both the allotments next to mine, so i now have 3 altogether.

I gave up work 2 years ago as my part time job was so stressful it was making me ill. I took a year long horticulture course which i loved and now I drop my DD off at school at 8.50 and go to my allotment until I pick her up at 3.30 during term time. I find it harder during the summer holidays as i visit my allotment from 6.30 to 8.15 so i can back home ready for my DH to go to work. My DD1 is 12 and my DD2 is 10.

I have loads of fruit and veg and have 2 apple trees at the moment. I have a lovely bramley apple tree and on my new plot is a beautiful tree but i don't know the variety. I do know the tree is an early variety and the apples don not store so i have just bought a fruit press so i can freeze the juice in plastic bottles and pop a bottle in DD's lunch box each day as she loves apple juice.

The two plots i have just taken over need alot of work but i have already had a wonderful harvest from both. I want to be as self sufficient as possible, though i do live in a town. I do intend to keep chickens oneday at home and i am still talking my DH round at the moment. I would love to keep bees (which my DH really can't understand) but at the moment i can't afford the set up costs or the price of a course to learn about it, so this will have to wait.

My life is really hard work and very frustrating as people think i just 'sponge' off my DH and watch daytime telly all day...this is so far from the truth as i spend loads of time pickling, preserving, freezing etc for the winter. It's so nice being close to nature and i think myself very lucky. I cook from scratch and make my own bread and try not to use chemical cleaners etc.

My family love the food i grow and can't get enough of my jams and pickled onions. My close friends say i should sell my produce but i have enough supplying my family of 4.

Anyway, enough about me

Well Done Kippers. Lovely,inspirational lifestyle:T:j:D.

zarazara

Saw some pigs at the weekend,at our village show. They are simply fantastic. Gloucester old spots. I want,I want...................

ginnyknit

I wish we all lived nearer to each other and could actually swop stuff and help each other wouldn't it be great. Im not suggesting a commune type of thing as its too difficult merging people (as I know from experience) but just close enough to visit. We could have work parties digging Mardatha's veggie plot and foraging together - ahh well

NualaBuala

ginnyknit wrote: »

I wish we all lived nearer to each other and could actually swop stuff and help each other wouldn't it be great. Im not suggesting a commune type of thing as its too difficult merging people (as I know from experience) but just close enough to visit. We could have work parties digging Mardatha's veggie plot and foraging together - ahh well

Sounds lovely! In fact I quite like the idea of a commune (so long as I had somewhere I could escape to by myself) so I didn't have to do the housework all by myself!

zarazara

That would be fantastic. Roll on the day when we can email cabbages and eggs to each other.

mardatha

Oh god, just thinking of an emailed Mars Bar.... emailed sherbet fruits, emailed turkish delight, emailed sticky toffee pavlova.... OMG. Thud.

RAS

mardatha wrote: »

Oh god, just thinking of an emailed Mars Bar.... emailed sherbet fruits, emailed turkish delight, emailed sticky toffee pavlova.... OMG. Thud.

One track mind????????????????

Hippeechiq

ginnyknit wrote: »

I wish we all lived nearer to each other and could actually swop stuff and help each other wouldn't it be great. Im not suggesting a commune type of thing as its too difficult merging people (as I know from experience) but just close enough to visit. We could have work parties digging Mardatha's veggie plot and foraging together - ahh well

What a fantastic idea.....if only, eh?

NualaBuala

mardatha wrote: »

Oh god, just thinking of an emailed Mars Bar.... emailed sherbet fruits, emailed turkish delight, emailed sticky toffee pavlova.... OMG. Thud.

Please find attached 6 months worth of chocolate in exchange for a pair of knitted socks!:D