Simple Country Living
It’s holidays here on the farm at the moment. We love the downtime. The kids spend hours on the trampoline, or else tramping around the farm intent on doing something – I’m not too sure what. Despite the lack of rain, the weather has been nearly perfect. Holiday adventures and plans seem to make the…
Yay for school holidays - and not a minute too soon. Every year teaching seems to take more and more of my energy, and the holidays are so needed. That's not to say that I've not got work to do over ...
One of the things I'm loving about our farmhouse is the kitchen, and now that the weather is warming up, I'm keen to get food in from the garden and start cooking again. Unfortunately, September is a ...
It's been quite an effort, but at last, I've got part two of our farmhouse tour together. Last time I was talking about our farmhouse renovation, I got as far as showing you the outside, explaining ...
It feels like ages since I've shared an update from our garden. Probably because it has been largely neglected these last 8 months while we focused on getting the farmhouse renovated. However, now ...
This post has been a long time coming. Six years in fact! Now that we are finally here in our farmhouse I can tell you it has been hard but totally worth the effort. Our farmhouse was originally ...
It's been four weeks since we moved back to our freshly renovated forever farmhouse, and we are starting to settle. Starting to remember where things are kept, and to develop little routines and ...
My goodness, it’s been cold here lately. Tucked up nice and warm in our farmhouse we have managed to avoid most of the chill, but it is still there when we venture outside. On Sunday morning we woke (not very early – it was still school holidays) to find the ground and trees completely white….
It’s hard to believe, but we are already up to planning next summer’s garden. Seed catalogues are being studied. With the house renovation taking up all our spare time, our vegetable plot has been sorely neglected and we have even had to buy vegetables this winter (!!). We do have some kale and broccoli coming on,…
We are home. Just. After almost seven months living in holding pattern at a rental property while our farmhouse was renovated, we are back. And it feels good. There are boxes everywhere, and so much more to do, but it doesn’t matter. On Sunday morning, we got up and looked out the windows at the…
Hello! Long time between blog posts! It seems that this little (ha) renovation of ours is taking up all our time and energy these days and though I have good intentions to blog all about it, I just don’t get there. Oh well. The renovation is going well though. I’ve been sharing the occasional progress…
It’s been a few months since I last updated you on our farmhouse renovation, and my goodness, I have a lot to show you! We’re not in yet, but it feels like the end is in sight (you can check out where the renovation was up to last time here). The roof is now on, the…
