Happy Days !

Happy Days!

What a glorious day we had last week, the sun shone and the whole family set to work in the garden.
Dad moved and repaired the hen house that had been abandoned by the previous house owners in the paddock next to our house.

I spent an incredibly satisfying couple of hours digging over my veg patch , adding manure ( made for us by our two ponies moon and sunbeam!) and then finally planting the potatoes. I am really hopeful of a bumper crop this year because my friend whose family have a biodynamic farm assures me that this was the best day this year to plant potatoes!

I could not have done this job without my great leather gardening gloves, they appear to fit all members of our family, as I spend much of my time retrieving them from whomever has borrowed! them for the particular job they are tackling at that moment.

I am feeling the need to turn my vegetable patch and greenhouse into a bijou chic working space that is not only full of wonderful homegrown vegetables but also looks really cool. I will keep you updated on how I get on but I have a feeling alot of it will be sourced from all the great gardening products we sell at the shop, as well as other vintage finds. I am starting some sweetpeas off in an old enamel flour tin and I of course have all my seeds stuffed into my seed tin!

Meanwhile Toby and Molly have started to transform the old hen house into the ducklings very own bijou residence. Ellen is busy keeping the little ones happy, they think she is their mum and follow her or Molly around the garden, it is so sweet to watch.

Following our happy day in the garden, I had a lovely evening joining the ladies in our village at the village hall for our flower arranging night. The girls asked to come this week as it was the easter holidays and they didnt have school the next day. So we all went off together to do a really nice creative girlie thing together and I am sure you will agree they did a great job, in fact I think they actually achieved better results than I did!

Molly's Display

The hand felted egg cosies on either side of my display were also made by the girls in handwork class at the Waldorf Steiner School they attend, I've a feeling I am going to be regularly outshone by their crafting talents from now on.

Ellens Display

Sam's Display