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Take your Dad out walking and get him talking this Fathers’ day (Sunday 20 June). Recent studies have shown that walking is a great way to get chatting to your family and this weekend the Ramblers are putting on 333 FREE led walks to help you celebrate Dads everywhere.
A GB-wide poll found that walking is [...]

Not sure how long it has been since our last blog - but quite some time I think.  My usual apologies for the lapse but so much is always going on. 
We are now the extremely “proud parents”  of 3 chicks - there were 4 but sadly one died on the first day.  They are doing [...]

Apologies for the lapse in time since our last blog which unbelievably was April 13.   Apart from the usual stuff going on around the home and garden I have been blessed to have some paid work so that has seriously reduced my computer time at home.
April 13 was quite a day.  We went from having [...]

Hello Everyone who is reading this.  Apologies for the lapse in time since the last Blog.  Initially the clocks going forward was, as always, so wonderful.  I love it when the clocks go forward and we can at last say goodbye to the winter and the dark evenings. 
As the clocks changed, so did our magnificent [...]

Just a little update for everyone out there who is interested in the latest exploits of  our “Poly tunnel and the chooks (and ducks)”.
 The great weather at the weekend saw the main framework go up with some help from Ian (our nephew). Quite honestly the poly tunnel is much bigger that we had at first thought.  It is [...]

We have never done this before, but we hope that we can  learn, inspire, create and just have fun from this “blog”.  Who made up that word?  Where does it come from?  I have absolutely no idea. 
 Here goes - some history first.  I am a born and bred real Essex girl and have always lived [...]