Wedding season!

Hi all, how you doing>? Great hopefully, as those of you with kiddywinkles will know its officially THE HOLIDAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!

We so needed this summer break here at the farm, i cant wait to not be clock watching, and to just wake up when we feel like it, eat when we feel like it and get dressed if and when the mood takes us!.....

Last week here at the farm saw a mad lot of people running around organising the wedding of Mr P's brother. The grain store barn behind the house was transformed with a marquee inside it. The purple color theme looked fab and we all had a brilliant time!....I thought id share a few snaps of the day with you all.....

...the wedding was held in a church local to Mr P's parents farm, where his grandparents and parents were married, past family funerals and recent family christenings were held, so its quite a special place....first we sang the hymn 'we plough the fields and scatter'...what a surprise!

Special shoes were selected for the occasion(by miss Ruby)...

Eventhough i dont really like weddings the ceremony was quite lovely and so was the bride!

Heading home down the hill....to a feast of a lunch!...

Wow, was all people could say when they saw how the barn had been transformed...

Cute cake, made by the brides nana...

Homegrown sweetpeas, specially selected for their colour a few months ago and grown by the gardener at the farm.

They travelled back from the church in this brand new beast...

Aah, the morning after the night before!!! Who's for breakfast boys?!!..

The day after the wedding we all sat in the marquee as a family and ate all the leftover meat, salmon, potatos, bread and cheesecake, it was heaven!

I'll catch up with you soon with part two of our summer so far.......enjoy your time chilling out x

Summer so far part 1

Helllooooooo!

Hi all, i hope you wont hold it against me that ive taken soooo long in stopping by blogland, i really dont know where the last eight weeks have gone!

Anyway, i wont bore you with excuses, are you like me and buy a new magazine and immediately flick through all the inspirational piccies??

You do?, well i'll make this post light on words then and hopefully you can just skip through and enjoy part one of our summer so far!

There have been a few firsts...enjoy x

Ted chilling out, maxin', relaxin', with Charlie's oh so scrummy baby toes....i can say with certainty this is not a first!

Does anyone else have a dog which comforts itself in the newest, neatest pile of plumped cushions/throws/towels you've just laid out??

Roo can often be found here...in MY spot, under the apple tree...

Garden picnics with friends have been enjoyed...

Another year older...a beautiful cake from a lovely friend...

And more cake!...

One baby sister is now walking!....

One middle sister had a first sports day...

The centinery celebrations of the death of Florence Nightingale were celebrated in style...

All our babies found new homes...

My stunning flowers have been admired...

Evening sun dappling the herb border...
The peachiest pink foxgloves flowered for the first time...

Time was spent capturing moments of this beautiful little lady for the first time...

A christening was celebrated...
...In style...

With a huge hog roast in the garden...

The men folk...cooking-now im sure THAT is a first!!!...

Check back in a few days for part two, ive missed you all!

K xxx

A (teddy)bear in the snow!

Hellooooo! Good morning good morning my lovlies, how are we today? Good i hope, thought id share this mornings adventures on the farm enjoying the white stuff. It looks reall beautiful at the moment as its so sunn, and undisturbed. There were deer tracks all over the place which was nice to see but apart from that not a sole had trodden the ground. I love that, when ou can be the first to walk on that soft white powder and leave a perfect boot print, dont you?

We're back inside now, girls with hot water bottles, Ruby is writing m shopping list for me, im hoping to escape to ASDA this afternoon for 'essentials'-hot choc marshmallows and squirty cream namely.

Ted had a fantastic time out in the snow, i do worry that dogs' feet pads must get painfully cold but neither him not Murph seemed bothered, he did slip onto his side a couple of times on the compacted icy snow in the yard but seemed unphased!

I always take a pocket full of tiny pieces of cheese when im walking him to try to get him to 'want' to come back to me, so far so good, he never goes out of sight and is only too happy to dash back when i whistle him, good stuff as we should be beating here tomorrow so he can spring into action and hopefully not show me up!

The photo below is one of four of the big oak trees which line the edge of the garden, they're full of birds, tits in the daytime and Owls at dusk. Talking of birds i do hope you've alll remembered our feathered friends, mine have some left over cereal, granary bread, mixed seed and i think some dog biscuits or something stale my mum put out for them!

There back and forth from the tree to the house all day and beautiful to watch.

Mr P found a dead common chaffinch in the yard yesterday(like the one in the photo above but slightly less flighty obviously!) when he was littering up the cattle-not uncommon you might think- but the unusual thing was that it had flown all the way from Norway!

When he got home last night we googled the ring number and found a website giving some sketchy details about the discovery, we emailed the chap who seemed to organise the ringing and he put us in touch with a chap called Alf Tore Mjos-i kid you not-head of the ringing section at stavenger museum in Norway!

So we've given him our address and he's going to send us a 'recovery letter' whatever that is? Quite interesting i think, Poppy will probably use this as her show and tell next week, i can print out the museum info for her and she can tell all about ringing.

Shame about the poor little chaffinch but im not surprised he carked it having flow that far!


Enough of me babbling, here are a few photos of the hound and the kids and the farm for you to enjoy.........