well the interview went well and i have been offered a job, i am so excited i will be starting the week beginning the 14th July....ok so i will be working within the customer services section of Waitrose but in terms of supermarkets they are good and sell yummy things and believe wholeheartedly in local producers which is fantastic.
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Thursday, 3 July 2008
Thursday, 26 June 2008
one......two.....pop....
ok ok i haven't started making the elderflower champagne yet, this is purely down the fact that we rarely drink fizzy pop, i have however managed to get two pop bottles through the mixing of white wine spritzers ;-) he he hiiicccp hhheee hheee
Neither i will admit have i started the digging of a veg patch, although i have gained two more tomato plants and succesully started growing some Basil, the apples on the apple tree are looking good and lala keeps asking for them...hard to explain to a two year old that they are not quite ready....have to keep a ready supply of similar looking offerings for her.
The chickens are doing well and appreciating boiled potato peelings and greens and mr radders adores them and refers to them as his chuucks....we have settled on names the gingernut ranger is called Darren and the two miss pepperpots are called vera and margo...vera is very stubborn and has a tendency 'to cut her beak off despite her face'...margo is very affectionate and clucks for attention at every oppurtunity, darren is definetly the boss (especially of mr radders).
Anyways better dash as have an important interview this evening...wish me luck.
Neither i will admit have i started the digging of a veg patch, although i have gained two more tomato plants and succesully started growing some Basil, the apples on the apple tree are looking good and lala keeps asking for them...hard to explain to a two year old that they are not quite ready....have to keep a ready supply of similar looking offerings for her.
The chickens are doing well and appreciating boiled potato peelings and greens and mr radders adores them and refers to them as his chuucks....we have settled on names the gingernut ranger is called Darren and the two miss pepperpots are called vera and margo...vera is very stubborn and has a tendency 'to cut her beak off despite her face'...margo is very affectionate and clucks for attention at every oppurtunity, darren is definetly the boss (especially of mr radders).
Anyways better dash as have an important interview this evening...wish me luck.
Friday, 20 June 2008
adams family versus the good life!!
ok odd title i know but i was out in the garden yesterday evening speaking to mr radders about transforming a small flower bed into a veg patch and his comment was 'i always prefered the adams family to the good life'.......i told him i rather eat the things from the good life...he can have the worms i dig up!!
He also asked if it was too late to start growing veg now with which i replied of course not.....(i hope not) but i'm sure there are lots of things i can grow, brussels, potatos, parnips, carrots, there are loads what was i panicking about.
we were also discussing names for the chickens one is to be called darren as this is mr radders friend who got the chickens for us and i quite like margo and vera for the other two, i'm sure its not very smallholdery to name chickens but we have no intentions of eating them (if hugh were reading this he'd no doubt ask why not) my reply not quite ready for that!!!!
as for the elderflower champagne i'm thinking i may struggle on the pop bottle front as we don't drink pop, do you think milk cartons would work?
back to the chickens again mr radders new staircase up to the house worked a treat and the girls took themselves up to bed at dusk and this is on the second day, things are going well.....
He also asked if it was too late to start growing veg now with which i replied of course not.....(i hope not) but i'm sure there are lots of things i can grow, brussels, potatos, parnips, carrots, there are loads what was i panicking about.
we were also discussing names for the chickens one is to be called darren as this is mr radders friend who got the chickens for us and i quite like margo and vera for the other two, i'm sure its not very smallholdery to name chickens but we have no intentions of eating them (if hugh were reading this he'd no doubt ask why not) my reply not quite ready for that!!!!
as for the elderflower champagne i'm thinking i may struggle on the pop bottle front as we don't drink pop, do you think milk cartons would work?
back to the chickens again mr radders new staircase up to the house worked a treat and the girls took themselves up to bed at dusk and this is on the second day, things are going well.....
Thursday, 19 June 2008
first came the chickens......
......ok so i'm not completly new to the concept of self-sufficiency i remember my mum and dad growing peas and other veg when we were young, granted the peas were snapped from their shoots and eaten on the way to school and never made it onto the dinner plate!! I also remember my granny visting and taking loads of plums home with her and then us getting some jam...don't recall eating it though and i made some very yummy sloe gin last year although need to make much more this year as it was very nice undeed! So it's not an alien concept, it's just putting it in to practice, so we have just taken in 3 chickens....growing 3 tomato plants kindly given to me by my friend Heidi, and are looking forward to our 2nd crop of apples from our two trees, but after watching river cottage spring i am planning to turn my attentions to the elderberry tree whch is taking over the garden and will make some elderflower champagne, i am also eyeing up a small area which may be good for some vegatables (until my allotment space arrives)....so here we are lots of fab ideas which i hope will make life fun and enjoyable for the radders and provide some yummy scrummy delights for us all.
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