Happy

Well it looks like I'm overdue for my approximately annual blog update!

However, things have improved from this time last year - not that they could have gotten much worse - and I'm starting to feel more comfortable with myself. Feeling okay just to be me.

I did set out in the beginning to write a blog about non-commercialism and how I can withdraw from consumer society and have a more sustainable life. Well, to an extent, I've not done too badly there.

Last year I grew quite a lot of vegetables and fruits in the garden. I learned a lot and its coming up to time to do it all again this year. Just need to wait for some sunshine and I'll be back in that garden.

We also keep some hens. We did have a good flock of Light Sussex and Warrens, but the fox got them all the other week. A highly distressing time. But they were overcrowded a bit in the space we had and we were going to let the numbers naturally dwindle to about four, but Mr Fox put paid to that. So instead we got another four anyway, after a thorough scrubbing out of the henclosure. We have a Rhode Island Red and three Buff Sussex, although only one's proper buff, the other two are darker, one a kind of caramel and one a proper dark brown, like the Rhody but it has the Sussex black feather tips. I'll post up a pic when I can be fussed to.

And of course I have my bees! Love them to bits and right now just hoping they've made it through the winter. A friend phoned today to say all her bees are dead. They just didn't survive the cold winter. Mine appear to still be alive, but that's on evidence gathered a few weeks ago. I just need a nice sunny day now and I'll go out and give them a Spring feed. If they're still there! Fingers crossed.

So that's me. You never know, if anything actually interesting happens to me I may let you know.

I realise that by saying 'you' that nobody is actually reading this though! Maybe might see one or two other kindly bloggers who's blogs I've posted on, but nobody really cares what little ol' me thinks at this point in time anyway.