just a quicky..... i just want to say a VERY BIG 'THANK YOU'

to you, as your comments really do mean alot to me, as some times i feel i need to get back into the real world and wake up, and realise the way that i am going i will never get my smallholding,

I am going to carry on and maybe one day when i am on my zimmer frame i might own one..lol..



yesturday in work i managed to sell some levi jeans to a local ebayer and sell some old welsh blankets and quilts to an antique dealer so a grand total of £247 is to be added to my total......wooooohoooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

'well.......I never'

Well......I never i actually found out that hubby has allways wanted a pet cow, and kept asking his parents for one when he was small...lol.... well he's got one now....ME....LOL...



I honestly think he is getting used to the 'good life' idea, he doesnt grumble anymore when i ask him to help me in the garden, and has said he wants to buy an incubator.....espcially when he seen how much the young geese were going for...
PLUS..... he doesnt tell me we cant have a smallholding anymore...so he is def getting used to the idea..

sadly the chicks we bought a few weeks ago all died..was well gutted, the only thing i can think of it was too long in the cold in the auction, and the chill had set in.

been having a good few weeks.... managed to sell some vintage things in work so i can offically add another £500 to my total...

went to the arm auction again this weekend, was meaning to take htings to sell, but we got up late. bought a pair of young red silkies which are sooooooooo cute, and this year's hatch



and a white pair which are older...they were in a box so couldnt see them properly, and when we got them home their feet/legs are in very poor condition...so will be treating htem over the next week or so



this weekend i am making the most of the dry weather and have been in and out of the garden..and have been transplanting my cabbage plants etc




and now i am going to have a lovely fried egg sandwich with these lovely fresh eggs

yummmmmmmy

and we're off ( again)

yep my daydream fund has now got some money in it again... so we're off with the grand total of............

wait for it................


£50..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



so my little piggy has now been fed...lol..




OTHER NEWS.....UPDATE.....

went to the farm auction on saturday with hubby, and we bought 6 bluebell chicks and 6 naked neck chicks..... sadly we lost one of the bluebell chicks, it was a very cold and damp day, there is one that still doesnt look right, so i havent gone into to work today, so i can keep an eye on it...

have decided i am going to grow alot more seeds etc than i will use myself to sell at the farm auction to raise some more cash...so this afternoon i am going to buy a kg of runner bean seeds and a kg of broad bean seeds and a box of 408 plant trays for 9 plants each, from a local bargin shop/garden supplies, this guy also has a storage unti by my unit so... he's giving me a goods price on them...i think the trays work out at 12p each and the runner bean seeds are £11 per kg so all in all i will make some money there..if not i will have loads of runner beans to sell and put in the freezer...lol...

Need to plant up some strawberry plants that i got today, which i ordered off ebay... i bought 20 runners, which are huge and healthy... so will pot them in individual pots and keep them in the greenhouse, to bring them on a bit earlier... cant wait.... strawberries and cream......mmmmmmmmmm


so my mojo is back on track...

catch you all later.....

oooo i am such a dirty girl .....'look'

i am such a dirty girl....'look' at these hands




hahahahaha.....'gotcha' ......what did you think i had been up to...ok dont answere that...lol...

well i have had a wonderfull day just doing bits around the garden and in the greenhouse..

i had to make a start on planting these seeds and garlic




so i got my trays all ready



and started getting my hands dirty with the compost..



and here we are the first things that i planted were the garlic..



and while i had my hands dirty.... i got the dreg ends of the potatoes that were at the bottom of the sack



and planted them in old compost bags, as its too cold to plant them outside... so they can stay in the greenhouse until i can put the bags outside...



i have got proper seed potatoes chitting at the moment on my bedroom windowsill... those ones i will plant in my m.i.l. garden..

also managed to sow some tomato seeds, sweet peas, lettuce, cabbage and some peas, so cant wait to plant some more things....

right better go and wash my dirty hands.....lol....

getting all excited now...lol... we went out and about yesturday as we heard lidl had apple trees for just £3.99.... managed to get a bramley apple tree, but we need to get another type of apple tree so they can polinate.... so i heard aldi are having apple trees in on thursday... so will take a nose..

hubby came with me, and to be honest it is genuinely taking an interest..and coming up with ideas, and things that HE needs to do.....mmmmmmmmmmmmm either he wants something or he has decided.. to give in to the idea...lol...

we bought some garlic, seed potatoes, some early peas and a rhubarb crown.. ok i know i have one in our garden, but i love making chutney... so another plant will not be wasted...lol..



some sad news......... my daydream fund has now gone down to zero...... to help pay for the clearing of the garden..... so will start again.... but at least i have some land to play with in the mean time.. unless the dreaded m.i.l. starts being awkward...

WOW.. its sooooooooooooo BIG!!!!!!!!!!!! its a whopper

WOW............i didnt realise it was sooooooooo big. its a flipping whopper..

Even though its flipping snowing, and freeeeezzzzzing cold, the tree guy has stuck to his word, and is working on my m.i.l garden to clear all the shrubs and brambles, and those dead trees...


and look.. i didnt realise how big the garden was







ooooooo cant wait ... we need to hire a cultivator and dig up all those roots etc... but hayho... then it will be ready for planting... better starting chitting a big sack of spuds...lol..

'this time next year rodders'

yep that is what hubby has been saying all flipping day to me....



sooooo much has happened since i posted last, but i have been keeping all my friends in the shabbychic cafe. updated

basically cut a very long story short...my mother in law have said we can use her garden.. for growing veg etc.. but it is sooooooooo over grown and has about 6 trees that are sooo dangerous they need felling.. i am now paying someone to clear it all, so all we have to do is dig up the roots etc... He is going to be starting this next week so will keep you updated on this ( promise).. I was going to use money from my business. but now this is going to be needed elsewhere ( tell you in a mo..lol..)

So basically my Daydream fund will be back to zero, and i will have to start again, but in my defence with spending my money i will be doing something that will be a bit like what i would be doing on a smallholding..lol..




So watch this space over the coming weeks/months..

Right lets go back to the begining...... ' this time next year rodders' hubby has been saying this to me ALL day..lol... My business has now go to a diff level,, so i a have had to buy a bigger van and take someone on full time...

He is also mentioning that you never know that maybe in the future we could afford a farm....( WHAT!!!!!! you are actually coming round to realise that i am not a daydreamer anymore...WOW) He took me to see a little smallholding locally today, so that is 2 now.. and i think he is getting interested in the idea himself...lol...

WONDERS WILL NEVER CEASE.....!!!!!!!


I promise for all you shabby chic'ers.... i will try and get some more material etc on ebay over the next few days....

Ta.... for now.... got to go and carry on daydreaming.....( well troll through the internet looking for smallholdings...hehehehe)