Sheep and Bonfires

It's been half term this week and so we have been away for quite a lot of it so not so much has been going on here at Leconfield Grange. Sheep preparations have continued and once I have put in a gate tomorrow we are ready to go with them. They will then have a small paddock. While they eat that grass I then need to do a load more fencing so they can go in the rest of the field but not destroy the polytunnel or eat strawberries.

As you can see things are going well in the polytunnel and some of these greens are ready for some cut and come again salad nibbling already. As you can also see there are still slugs in there, but not too many and I am getting rid of them most evenings. 

While we were away we went to Caernarfon in North Wales and the kids managed to climb Tryfan. As it is a scramble most of the way up we were pretty impressed by how they managed. I certainly didn't like that sort of thing when I was their age, but they seemed to love it. We also went to a family bonfire party while we were away which was fantastic and the kids loved it seeing their second cousins. I am hopefully going to get my Grandfathers old sit on mower this week which should make some work a lot easier like mowing and lugging trailer fulls of manure from the stables a couple of doors down to here. Pulling trailers by hand is quite hard work. I think Zoe likes the rustic nature of it, which is fine but the effort required (especially with a puncture) is quite high. We have a working weekend coming up this weekend so we should get some more work done on the smallholding. I have a few different plans in mind. If anyone would like to come and hasn't been invited just let me know. 

The kitchen is now almost there. With a little finishing off from me and some boxing in of the extractor piping from the kitchen people I think we will be there. It has been so nice for the last couple of weeks being able to cook again.