WOW - it’s a long time since I was last in here and I apologize for that. Shortly after my last entry we came across a house for sale, in our price bracket, in the perfect little village. It had more space than the smallest smallholding, and a much larger garden. Seeing the opportunity to expand our lifestyle and get a bigger house we pushed on and tried to buy the place. Its been 6 months of misery. The house fell through, we lost the buyer we had for ours, blah blah bloody blah.
Through it all our self sufficient plans faltered – the garden was left to go wild (“whats the point of planting stuff – we could be moving in 8 weeks” we kept saying to each other) and the usual winter tasks were left undone. 2 days ago we cracked and decided to stay put. I’ve just rang the estate agent and taken the house off the market, and for the first time in about 4 months I feel like there is something to look forward too.
So between stints at the 2 jobs we both now work, we are going to spend the next few days tidying up the garden and then it onto another season of growing. I cant bloody wait – im so eager that I just spent my lunch hour down the garden centre buying a few packets of seeds. So – we are back. Expect more blogs very soon, once we get back into things.
Take care folks, and dig deep. The weather mans claims the weather is gonna be better than last year, so lets get those veggie beds planted up and, then we can all look forward to a nice big, tasty, healthy, and home-grown harvest.
Gary
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15/07/08 @ 04:17