tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82803767420666122922024-03-13T23:19:10.062+00:00sophie and matt's woofing blogsophie and matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12826316236077092933noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8280376742066612292.post-6433400007281684172012-05-17T18:05:00.002+01:002012-05-17T18:05:15.113+01:00Bills ahhhh!Hehe, we know that we are now proper adults because we now pay bills! I knew that bills would cost money and we have alloted money that we don't touch for that very purpose. But what I hadn't figured on was how much time that you spend on the phone phoning them with daft questions and requests like 'would they please change my name from Stacy to Sophie please (EDF)' or 'I have set up a direct debit but now I am told by a letter that my payment is overdue what the hell (again EDF)'. I will never understand how all this stuff isn't electronic either. I was sent an itemised billing schedule for the whole year for council tax, however if I want to go and pay it, I have to key in the amount myself. Its not just waiting on the system for me to put my debit card details in. Which means its quite scary because you don't feel sure your actually paying 'your' council tax eeeek!<br />
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This leads me on to how on earth we have the money to pay these bills. We are both employed! Yay! Mattyman is working as a dealer in a casino and I am working in a Pub behind the bar. Its fantastic I feel so much better now I am employed we don't have to worry about money much, because between us we earn enough to pay for everything. We even have money left over for fun stuff and savings (I am currently saving for the AAT, I have discovered that if I pay it in full upfront the price is at a 20% discount which would make it around 1600 rather than 1900ish).<br />
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Well since writing this and completely forgetting about it I have had more run ins with EDF. 2 weeks ago we recieved our first EDF bill and the bill told me that noting was further needed from us as the bill is paid by direct debit. A week later we recieved a letter from EDF asking why haven't we paid the bill and to do so as soon as possible. So I sent an email to EDF detailing why I haven't paid the bill. After not hearing from them for a week I get a further letter telling me that if we do not pay the bill further action will be taken by them (a debt collector may come around). So I decide after finding a number for them that wouldn't cost me the earth to phone them by, I phoned them up.</div>
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After speaking to a very nice man it transpired that although a direct debit was set up their system had deleted our bank details. All this fuss for £27.57, so as a grown up I made the executive decision to cancel the direct debit and pay quaterly like all the other bills that we pay.</div>
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Phew now all that is over we have two months without bills (except council tax which is monthly). Now we can get ready for the wedding without worry of our electric being cut off in our absence. Anyway now to go and pack and get ready for going back to Ilfracombe to see the peoples and furry monkeys (who will be very put out when they see us leave early in the morning on Saturday. </div>
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It comprised of a large bedroom with storage (2 slim wardrobes), a nice sized lounge, a nice tidy clean bathroom and a kitchen which is part of the hallway. It had room for washing machine, fridge and a freezer (by this point we realised it would make sense to make these purchases and Thank you to Grandpa and Grandma Bave for their contribution which paid for all these items). Here are some of the piccys from the estate agent:<br />
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So after deciding that was the place for us we set about securing it. It took a couple of weeks and a lot of phone calls (not helped by the jobseekers allowance lot, who we repeatedly had to phone as well). However, on the night before we were due to move in Matt was asked to attend the final stage of interviews for a job. This turned out to work in all our favour, as me and Matt were at Plymouth ready to sign for the keys (after a little heart attack provided to us from the card machine which refused to accept our payment) and Dad, Kez and Isaac were able to all fit in the van to help unload. So there is a major thank you to Dad, kezza bee, Isaac and Rosie for all their help lugging and delivering all our stuff and thank you Mummy for all your support in the planning of it all to get it all to work. So after getting the keys we bought supplies for the hard working removal team (which included english breakfast sandwiches (I don't think I have seen Kez's eye get quite that big except at Christmas hehe) and biscuits. It was quite scary when it all first arrived as all the stuff came out before the furniture, so it looked like we had less space than I thought however it all just about fits (as can be seen from the piccys below). </div>
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The collage I made for the fireplace</div>
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The bedroom, which despite the stuff in it still looks huge</div>
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about six weeks after we moved in we recieved this little box of goodies from the letting agents, hehe!</div>
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Night Night x x x x x</div>sophie and matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12826316236077092933noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8280376742066612292.post-46011310916867005012012-04-27T20:48:00.002+01:002012-04-27T20:48:35.926+01:00The New Year and a new Destination!After our wonderful WWOOFing experience we came home to Ilfracombe for the end of the year and to spend Christmas with the family. We also helped with bits and pieces of DIY, the house is looking amazing, we kept coming back to find more and more of the house having been beautifully finished. Christmas was fun with all of us home. <br />
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In the new year after a little holiday at Center parcs, which was lots of fun, lots of swimming, Badminton, card games, and food, we started looking into where to go to next. After much debate and research we decided that Plymouth would be the best option (Exeter was top until we found out how expensive living costs were). So from the end of January we started applying for all possible jobs. So first we decided to visit Plymouth, to see if we liked it.<br />
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So we booked a hotel visit to check it out, we stayed at Jurys Inn, in the middle of the city.<br />
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The view from our hotel room on the 8th floor</div>
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St Andrew church that literally is the roundabout which you can see from the hotel hallway</div>
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The memorial Garden for WW1 and WW2</div>
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F.G. GODDARD is my great grandfather who died aboard the HMS Thistle a submarine blown up by a German U-boat</div>
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The brilliant sculpture at the quayside near where the Mayflower set sail, although technically the actual ship set sail from inside what is now a pub across the road from the where the quay is now.</div>
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The icing on top of the cake, Matt found Bibbon St he was so happy to be moving somewhere monkey related hehe!</div>
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Watch this space for our next move x x x x</div>sophie and matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12826316236077092933noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8280376742066612292.post-92088440659663521552012-04-27T19:12:00.000+01:002012-04-27T19:12:18.262+01:00Our Last Woofing experience catch upI just realised I couldn't really start the blog without the last chapter of our Wooffing experience. The last place we went to was called Dyffryn Isaf in South Wales.<br />
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We arrived in the afternoon and after a cuppa tea we got stuck straight in a started to weed some beds and soon discovered that this farm has one type of white rooted that was very persistent. In fact we didn't realise just how persistent it was until one of our woof hosts dug a patch we had done and it was still full of roots! but finally we did get as much roots out as we could and covered the with corrogated metal. <br />
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We did lots of different things at the farm, they have many Shetland Sheep and were given the opportunity to give them a health check, I have never handled sheep so this was a great experience. They also have 4 goats, 3 of which, were producing milk and we were allowed to milk them. Most of the food that we ate on the farm either came from Suma or their own farm, so we ate a lot of goat milk, goat cheese, meat from their own sheep, and vege from their own garden. I don't think we ever have eaten so much goat product, the cheese was especially good.<br />
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The farm was situated in a lovely valley there were some beautiful views. We were lucky with the weather although we had some rain, we generally had good weather. They also had their own Orchard in which they grew, cookers, eaters and cider apples. We got to pick quite a few on our stay, we also picked a lot of raspberries and had many meals that included both fruits. We also got to press about 6-7 bin fulls of cider apples with a big apple press. We had lots of apple juice, all ready for fermenting and some for drinking. This was lots of fun and much laughing and giggling as some of the apples where more mushy than others and some batches did kind of explode out the sides of the press with big splat noises! all the crushed pulp was given to the goats.<br />
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As you will see later our hosts dye their own wool, during our stay we got to harvest a whole crop of Madder root (which is a plant whose roots can be used to dye wool a red colour), apparently it takes 2 years before you can harvest as it takes this long for the roots to grow prolifically. <br />
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As well as the hoofed creatures they also had lots of chickens and two cats too (named Socks and Lucy) I of course fell for the kitties and they repeatedly tried to get cuddles out of us. </div>
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The patch that we rescued one of the sheep who had got caught up in a few sneaky brambles.</div>
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Some of the Shetland Sheep that they had at the farm, these sheep were both a meat source and a wool source, our hosts were very into textiles and spin, dye, tan the skins (for sheep skin rugs, many of which are used in the house as rugs) and make things from the fleece (e.g. felt). </div>
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Socks making sure that everyone knew the wood was hers.</div>
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The apple pressing equipment all cleaned up.</div>
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The very impressive compost system.</div>
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The Broccoli that flowered very early</div>
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The muck heap that we weeded and covered up with black plastic</div>
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Some of the Madder root, when wet and washed the roots are dark red through to orange.</div>
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One of the batches of chickens whose mum is the mad Momma chicken!</div>
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Our Wooff hosts let us have a go at weaving!</div>
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Here is our finished weaving hehe.</div>
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We also were given two days off during our stay so we decided to go to Tenby and Camarthen.</div>
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We had a great time going to Tenby, we also got to see Narbeth on the way. At Tenby I realised that I had been there before, I went there as a small child and we went on a ride in a horse drawn carriage, and they are still doing running trips around the town. We went to the seafront </div>
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Our hosts very kindly took us along to the Welsh Spinners, Weavers and Dyers guild event in LLandiloes. It was a wonderful event, the theme of the guild event this year was flowers, our hosts local guild flower was the foxglove. Here are some pictures of the beautiful wares and pieces for the competition. There was a whole mix of fibres, textiles and themes. Overall it was brilliant, they evn had local suppliers in selling all kinds of fleece, fibres, equipment.for spinning, felting, carding if it was wool related they had it! This was also where Matt bought his drop spindle and our host showed him how to use it. We also got to meet an amazing artist who did a presentation on here textile work and business she was amazing she was only in her 20's and she has done some really prestigious artwork really amazing! Her main theme is weaving and she sells some of her designs but she also does art using threads and ribbons set into resin which created stunning illusions. I will include her name when I find the booklet I wrote her name in, her textiles were truly gorgeous.</div>
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The Pembrokeshire guild members Competition entry. I particularly like the fox wearing gloves!</div>
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After the Spinners, Weavers and Dyers event we dropped in at Aberaeron and had ice cream and the The Hive. It is a Local Honey themed restaurant and they make ice cream to die for! <a href="http://thehiveaberaeron.com/">http://thehiveaberaeron.com/</a></div>
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We also got an opportunity to go to Camarthen which we had only previously changed trains and buses at on the way to other places. It was really nice there even though it was raining, we had a total nostalgia day. We went to see The Lion King in 3D at the local cinema and ate a the Wimpy and also bought me a new phone as mine died a week earlier. We had a such a silly day it was lovely. </div>
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Other than that we staked the cabbages so the wind wouldn't blow them over in winter, we made 2 types of bird boxes, I even got to use a plane to put a campher? on the roof of each house. We had a great time and got to meet some great people (especially our hosts), we even got to meet some of our woof hosts friends when they came over for dinner and they were very nice to us too. </div>
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Phew well I think I have written nearly everything I can remember of our trip, we had a wonderful experience WWOOFing at all the places we went to, it is truly a life experience we will never forget and hope to do again in the future! </div>
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</div>sophie and matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12826316236077092933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8280376742066612292.post-90241432853108698212011-11-07T20:34:00.000+00:002011-11-07T20:34:41.646+00:00Catch up<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ok, it has been a long time since I last posted. Lots has changed! But first I will start with the entry I started when Phil and Michelle rescued us from the scary people! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">So here we go for entry no. 1:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Phew well ok we have finally recovered from our interesting but unpleasant lesson in scary WWOOF hosts. On Monday (19<sup>th</sup> of September) we went back to stay at Michelle and Phil’s smallholding, who very kindly took us back. It was wonderful to have a cup of tea, move on and get stuck into some work again. Firstly, we took down some beans that had stopped flowering and producing beans. Then we did the afternoon chickie feed (a chore that I have sorely missed, who would have thought!). It was lovely to hear all the antics that had happened in our absence. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Tuesday:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We were able to help Phil in start making the second set of benching for the poly tunnel that we helped clear the first time. I know we did more later on in the day but I foolishly forgot to make any detailed records until now, ooops! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcluOnRsIF5qFJAS8nndPhXAEcgIwBm3kF5ODz1HF2eHWlgT0P7TqNjvmA0Qdg1Y4hnMqaLNuaw7s4NuJQNdcpNbxAUeyq6YRlMB3yfDhJBI3kjNFK4UBg7Iv9YaH1rgMJJ6MEGxFTT14/s1600/R0016094.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcluOnRsIF5qFJAS8nndPhXAEcgIwBm3kF5ODz1HF2eHWlgT0P7TqNjvmA0Qdg1Y4hnMqaLNuaw7s4NuJQNdcpNbxAUeyq6YRlMB3yfDhJBI3kjNFK4UBg7Iv9YaH1rgMJJ6MEGxFTT14/s320/R0016094.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We also got to help Phil put some bee treatment (called Apiguard?) into the hives. This was to stimulate them to clean each other and remove mites. These mites then fall onto a piece of plastic under the hive. Every morning we had to go and check the hives and count the numbers of fallen mites (this gave us some idea of how high or low the infestation of each hive is). </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Thursday:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This was the beginning of a two day adventure hehe! The first day it was a bit wet but we started to clear the hazels around the ponds as well as any other branches, trees, reeds etc. that were overgrown around the pond. While we were doing this we had a tea break using a tommy kettle and a reclaimed bench it was a bit like camping hehe! We also had a bonfire which was lovely we managed to get rid of a lot of the surplus leafy foliage that couldn’t be made into firewood.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWdPTbvM2Bs_Vhe_LIZAbbha8JAahLm0TUrE6Srou14kiRM2pvEzp_TN9uGOGEOXaTh9LBVZ5LE1QVLVziujd8IFJZK590grYQWYcxvugJC527x63D3ph5-sEtks6s9umUUYe7EHKvsxQ/s1600/R0016098.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWdPTbvM2Bs_Vhe_LIZAbbha8JAahLm0TUrE6Srou14kiRM2pvEzp_TN9uGOGEOXaTh9LBVZ5LE1QVLVziujd8IFJZK590grYQWYcxvugJC527x63D3ph5-sEtks6s9umUUYe7EHKvsxQ/s320/R0016098.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Mud that day hehe!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQw2pPpgl1RNxtky0tpL1-aUg29kKgZf3Vw1A5ghQ3KFf2GPeoLO2w9LLzZjO9VoA1VMwD5jOtGHPJ7JAbzaqdDf1igQw5BoWbRBcBPigSDj87vIosfM2cbAE4dXDecDsfD0UCuNUUD7M/s1600/R0016107.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQw2pPpgl1RNxtky0tpL1-aUg29kKgZf3Vw1A5ghQ3KFf2GPeoLO2w9LLzZjO9VoA1VMwD5jOtGHPJ7JAbzaqdDf1igQw5BoWbRBcBPigSDj87vIosfM2cbAE4dXDecDsfD0UCuNUUD7M/s400/R0016107.JPG" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Our little picnic area.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWxUHNsKb8DIr1neMmGhPGUEZ93NyhU1XF8m57LqCjmIr9i6qj7meBBIvdybvKoWbQLvA2CCg67LaAQWns61X1eUeAoI7gAtBNFi5lzWlM9S8eUf6YFlx3Vi52Q9Cw2fKoVi2rN5lUbS8/s1600/R0016110.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWxUHNsKb8DIr1neMmGhPGUEZ93NyhU1XF8m57LqCjmIr9i6qj7meBBIvdybvKoWbQLvA2CCg67LaAQWns61X1eUeAoI7gAtBNFi5lzWlM9S8eUf6YFlx3Vi52Q9Cw2fKoVi2rN5lUbS8/s400/R0016110.JPG" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The bonfire site</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga-uwjUrFYt2mamKGGGUBAWskSdim1CXeOirp5Gz8Z54Js7y6z6yumZxwL5T7MvYxPieFJA6t2_GijjrhNvDpPOcav2IGbrQNMpDpVumO7K0l_laO6kA8xu-eOCzJPJ-bn2hVEIfSuGf8/s1600/R0016104.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga-uwjUrFYt2mamKGGGUBAWskSdim1CXeOirp5Gz8Z54Js7y6z6yumZxwL5T7MvYxPieFJA6t2_GijjrhNvDpPOcav2IGbrQNMpDpVumO7K0l_laO6kA8xu-eOCzJPJ-bn2hVEIfSuGf8/s640/R0016104.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The area round the pond after the demolition which enables you to now see all the way round the pond.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Friday:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We continued our operation around the goose pond. Matt spent quite a while removing the smaller branches from what we cut down with a billhook (which did take a dip in the pond by accident hehe! But it was rescued by Michelle thankfully). I spent the morning making faggots out of the thinner branches. I think again we did more in the afternoon but I cannot remember. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Saturday:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We were given the day off so after feeding the chickies and ‘Lambchop’ we went into Aberaeron. This is a lovely place a lovely little seaside town. We had a lovely morning walking around the town (partially in search of the mythical wool shop I was told about, in which I bought a pattern for a little hooded baby cardigan). We had lunch from a lovely delicatessen owned by an Italian lady and went for a short walk around that harbour. I have to say I was thoroughly impressed with the place, it felt strangely like home. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxfG7GgPrioGHYT4CvP-2N25kwylesSpo2sc44pQQCGUXv60FDN3dQXcFwzwvsBeuVFudu0fEso3Rl_Uirrs_NIYDysd8xHeZm-CcT70Aq5FdMbtMxdNgtteRbcKSo4lcYewHCbbbdoig/s1600/R0016066.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxfG7GgPrioGHYT4CvP-2N25kwylesSpo2sc44pQQCGUXv60FDN3dQXcFwzwvsBeuVFudu0fEso3Rl_Uirrs_NIYDysd8xHeZm-CcT70Aq5FdMbtMxdNgtteRbcKSo4lcYewHCbbbdoig/s640/R0016066.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Aberaeron harbour </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglLwDKmBhjfpWFsA7hv4WnvxHzZabgRZdz6WNySWqEa8KQwUjfXyfBUqtjs43Ej7L6M_qiuAaepT7iNTrPUX7RYdwWANjzzxX3eXNs0qRJFaJ30Z8eqloJ66Isec96T-2moswHNB0DXZY/s1600/R0016068.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglLwDKmBhjfpWFsA7hv4WnvxHzZabgRZdz6WNySWqEa8KQwUjfXyfBUqtjs43Ej7L6M_qiuAaepT7iNTrPUX7RYdwWANjzzxX3eXNs0qRJFaJ30Z8eqloJ66Isec96T-2moswHNB0DXZY/s400/R0016068.JPG" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Me up on the little tower at the end of the harbour</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2KRPMLnrf-XuR-6dk3ATDa_HWZeiP2RvNCAiwWCEcdlmoabM2-tTgsxKEgfL5F5XI-y9JJ5VjXgvwJYhRHfRwXfTmBfOGyduNz0aFXB2P53x8qUeRekN_eMcT_QBMzm9TP8a3R71yyK0/s1600/R0016069.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2KRPMLnrf-XuR-6dk3ATDa_HWZeiP2RvNCAiwWCEcdlmoabM2-tTgsxKEgfL5F5XI-y9JJ5VjXgvwJYhRHfRwXfTmBfOGyduNz0aFXB2P53x8qUeRekN_eMcT_QBMzm9TP8a3R71yyK0/s400/R0016069.JPG" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Me at the top of the tower over looking the sea hehe! Oh how I had missed.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOX7OSu0w57LVWkhsow8B55vhABhBcb0eIhcFayZrjDDlZBVqDv41rk-Osc63PTG_WScuvSpX6_MkGUxBg2pvm7CYMmIGp0AFNJeqmjlRRlq4GHem0Kk_zIcCrnzia0WbRAG4hPG9RDeI/s1600/R0016079.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOX7OSu0w57LVWkhsow8B55vhABhBcb0eIhcFayZrjDDlZBVqDv41rk-Osc63PTG_WScuvSpX6_MkGUxBg2pvm7CYMmIGp0AFNJeqmjlRRlq4GHem0Kk_zIcCrnzia0WbRAG4hPG9RDeI/s320/R0016079.JPG" width="240" /></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The lovely deli where we had paninis and spanish hot chocolate.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sunday:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I finished Matts socks! He now has a pair of custom made stripy woolly socks. Matt spent the morning helping Phil with the bees and taking down another set of beans in the polytunnel. I got to help Michelle with some more jam making, including marrow and ginger jam (Matt is a very big fan of this jam) and some plum jam that set very well. Then me, Matt and Phil started weeding one of the poly tunnels ready for planting a lot of cabbages (which incidentally we propagated the last time we were there, they had grown quite a bit since we last saw them).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ok the second week I really didn’t remember to make any notes at all so I will regale you with what I can remember. All throughout the time we were their it became very clear that Katy the dog was not a well bunny. She started to get a nasty cough and at somepoint it was decided to take her to the vet. At first the vet thought she had kennel cough but after a week of treatment she wasn’t getting any better. So a day at the vets and a repeat visit revealed she has a very rare syndrome. The vets found that she had tracheal collapse (which is normally only seen in toy breeds) and there are only two options, one is a very expensive medicine that treats the symptoms or major surgery which may help but at 11 years old Michelle and Phil are obviously very nervous of this option. We are still waiting to hear how she is doing on the medicine root (fingers crossed it will help!) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We also had an interesting time with the bees. It turned out that the bees had quite a few mites and so a second treatment was prepared and administered. However, the next day we discovered one hive of bees was getting ready to leave and another had actually swarmed. Luckily, the swarmed bees had not gone far but we still had to catch them. This turned out to be very tricky as the queen escaped twice before she was finally caught for a third and final time. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We also got involved in moving the sheep around and moving the piglets. We also had to say good bye to Mrs Pig as she went to the abattoir on Wednesday. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin5sFCvdEFAXhY3_3_DyTSbGSrXQ3xxIp_TP3YUyeC7gsPQ3qwP6Z8AMjYPYVW4QkyPANGSQlEs0WVBPpe1KsccqUV6zODEcb5VRk3fAzQCHAG2e6WmP_rparuDSKuvR3Zh1EVazSa_Wo/s1600/R0016114.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin5sFCvdEFAXhY3_3_DyTSbGSrXQ3xxIp_TP3YUyeC7gsPQ3qwP6Z8AMjYPYVW4QkyPANGSQlEs0WVBPpe1KsccqUV6zODEcb5VRk3fAzQCHAG2e6WmP_rparuDSKuvR3Zh1EVazSa_Wo/s400/R0016114.JPG" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Katy feeling a bit uner the weather</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbt7huyZkTPF14_XaiKg3BPJe3nry0AL4HJz4wrzcrj_0_uGI6WyC_xTHY_SU-FillDB0C2M4DQOvUQ0NvQD7eonCYxp58BuBLqxfT8NI4fJEtYHD0Kfcdxt09DZIHbulSgto2hjZN6Rc/s1600/R0016081.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbt7huyZkTPF14_XaiKg3BPJe3nry0AL4HJz4wrzcrj_0_uGI6WyC_xTHY_SU-FillDB0C2M4DQOvUQ0NvQD7eonCYxp58BuBLqxfT8NI4fJEtYHD0Kfcdxt09DZIHbulSgto2hjZN6Rc/s400/R0016081.JPG" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Smudge decided to have one try at being a cat in a bedroom, it turned out he thought this was a good ploy to get out of having to shut in the kitchen over night. Naughty Smudge</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVVoOnzZc3s-jsD38sQ7cgLUCE-W1rXAwVceMg-MynuCA56epw1zQpJNcSN7-TQRkLk1wibeaHlgc6NrRHtQxPq1AbO2jokrFi6YIH8twJOzshtMpYaybhF5F0YHQt0uQki7CTz7jpUmY/s1600/R0016120.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVVoOnzZc3s-jsD38sQ7cgLUCE-W1rXAwVceMg-MynuCA56epw1zQpJNcSN7-TQRkLk1wibeaHlgc6NrRHtQxPq1AbO2jokrFi6YIH8twJOzshtMpYaybhF5F0YHQt0uQki7CTz7jpUmY/s640/R0016120.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This is the green manure which we planted the first week we arrived, now look at it, its huge</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQrksmImUbjw6luj4E26kneb33RlqrB7gCj85fCL2UJbxHNcTPmRPGSmN4JBKaa5Vk-aFinmCKU0wNGZ-LfxbGPEl8NarWZPjOkmH9khzHz1uoKDe79Bc0xRXn7I1mqaQNXvPn93Mkgug/s1600/R0016040.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQrksmImUbjw6luj4E26kneb33RlqrB7gCj85fCL2UJbxHNcTPmRPGSmN4JBKaa5Vk-aFinmCKU0wNGZ-LfxbGPEl8NarWZPjOkmH9khzHz1uoKDe79Bc0xRXn7I1mqaQNXvPn93Mkgug/s640/R0016040.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The amazing sunset we had</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtX7lRCfKFVDvhHknj4wvvV5J7XSAoLXzWeQiF7pfdxB9IOmZQpdbO-jCntKihNr1LlzIBsf_oJRe94rOzvQIEJRsAu7FcEfYNIKt3Ssqmu9abJO4hurVSXxEBYPC1hEbGXTB3DDSYMZ0/s1600/R0016028.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtX7lRCfKFVDvhHknj4wvvV5J7XSAoLXzWeQiF7pfdxB9IOmZQpdbO-jCntKihNr1LlzIBsf_oJRe94rOzvQIEJRsAu7FcEfYNIKt3Ssqmu9abJO4hurVSXxEBYPC1hEbGXTB3DDSYMZ0/s640/R0016028.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The sunset over the house and a random alien.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk8RsOA7WTxAiHYC87BsfZsetmZ9cKqxQ5v5kXE5TE8Z7R0CU-bHjITSMoZAKqSue9zBJGthHPUxiFli4qb0kyNO5OXA2Afw6-gXNrb61ezmd42N9I40gTh1PDgD0oKjrVpu60Jkr9ZWw/s1600/R0016031.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk8RsOA7WTxAiHYC87BsfZsetmZ9cKqxQ5v5kXE5TE8Z7R0CU-bHjITSMoZAKqSue9zBJGthHPUxiFli4qb0kyNO5OXA2Afw6-gXNrb61ezmd42N9I40gTh1PDgD0oKjrVpu60Jkr9ZWw/s640/R0016031.JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The sunset again, it was so beautiful these pictures don't really do it justice.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd3O6sKpEccv0oYkttTvXfjZM0x6THjl1T3MgsMt9OeLzA2p0WrYVBy503osFJQGMGZ83rP-v9o9V7c3Q3MkyaLYj4XkTKvVLUUSU3ChEAERfUsspv6agLCn_ynPK2ZFugYUZRAYBIMw8/s1600/R0016086.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd3O6sKpEccv0oYkttTvXfjZM0x6THjl1T3MgsMt9OeLzA2p0WrYVBy503osFJQGMGZ83rP-v9o9V7c3Q3MkyaLYj4XkTKvVLUUSU3ChEAERfUsspv6agLCn_ynPK2ZFugYUZRAYBIMw8/s400/R0016086.JPG" width="300" /></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The bed prepared for the cabbages.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">08/10/2011</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Phew well since I wrote this I have found out that Katy is doing well on her medication she stopped coughing within 2 days! I shall try and remember more of the things that we got up to while at Michelle and Phils. But for now I leave you with this and that we are well and having fun having just got back from the Spinners, Weavers and Dyers guild gathering and we are very excited! Matt is trying his hand at spinning using a drop spindle! Anyway I shall love and leave you, i shall try to write again soon. X x x x x x x x x </span></div>sophie and matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12826316236077092933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8280376742066612292.post-42017254381689954932011-09-19T00:41:00.000+01:002011-09-19T00:41:37.740+01:00Blueberry farm cont......Phew <br />
well it is Monday now and so far we have been back to our normal routine of scouring the blueberry field in search of the ever more elusive berries. However, this evening there may be a bonfire so looking forward to that We have had some amazing talks with all the different people we have met. Yesterday some of Wei wei's friends from China came and it was great to talk to them I had no idea how hard they have to work to get into University in China, apparently if they don't get into the best Unis in China they then start looking to go to the best of our English Universities. I had a lovely talk with one of the girls called Agnes she actually got into and through university in China in electronic communication and is now in the last few weeks of her Msc at Bristol. She has had to work so hard and she is convinced her english is not good enough to stay here, but I think she was brilliant at English. It certainly makes me think of living in England and already speaking English in a new way. <br />
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We have both come to the realisation that we have not seen enough of the world and we have been seriously considering taking up Vicki and Simon's offer of a wwoof opportunity in New Zealand. When they go back I think they are going to sell up and buy some land and become Wwoof hosts themselves. We have been looking at how we might do it and how much it might cost and it is not as expensive as I thought it might be.<br />
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Tuesday through thursday we have had many hours of picking blueberries we are becoming experts in picking. It does make me giggle because the trays we use remind me of cat litter trays, but when we fill 5-6 of those to half full every day that is a lot of blueberries.<br />
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Other than that we have been spending a lot of time being sociable in the evening too! On tuesday night we had a bonfire (Vicky and Simon ripped out a lot of old woodwormy floor boards out of the barn that they were converting) which was fantastic, Wei wei also had these lovely lanterns which we lit and we wrote wishes on. These were then released into the sky and we watched until we could no longer see them.<br />
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One of the cats decided to make friends with us as well This kitty is moonshine and he a very silly kitty it took him a week and a half before he had the confidence to sit on us!<br />
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</div>On Wednesday night we went foraging for food, like hawthorn berries, rowan berries, blackberries crab apples and mushrooms! It was quite fun going out up to the cleave with everyone.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Friday: we had our last day on the blueberry farm and it was great we were allowed to have the afternoon off and we were able to chill out a bit and go up to the cleave for the last time. When we got back we had the most amazing sushi and other food i don't know the name of but it was amazing! After dinner we all decided to watch a film, so after much discussion and voting we agreed to watch 'the curious tale of Benjamin button.' It was a beautiful film, in fact so beautiful that I cried, I couldn't help even in front of everyone. After that we had to say goodbye to everyone which was sad but also happy, we have the email addresses of everyone. I have never had a good bye like it, I look forward to seeing them again already!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Saturday we left quite early and made our way to the next place, which I will not mention much other than we didn't like it there and we decided to leave, which suffice to say meant that on sunday night we unexpectedly found ourselves in need of a B&B after 7pm. However despite the negative aspects, we are now enjoying the very nice room in a B&B (that thank you very much to mummy bee for arranging it for us) in Cardigon. However, it also seems that fate has decided that we are able to go back to our favourite Welsh farm tomorrow! So yay!</div>sophie and matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12826316236077092933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8280376742066612292.post-81664833258193343612011-09-11T15:33:00.002+01:002011-09-11T16:38:33.078+01:00Blueberry farm!Hello we are now a week into our 3rd Wwoof farm now, in Devon! We are working on a blueberry farm and it is fantastic! Unlike the other places we have been there are other Wwoofers at this place too. It does seem that not many English Wwoofers actually Wwoof in England. At the moment there are 2 from Spain, Alicia [alee-thia] and Roberto [rolling R-o-bear] and 1 from Italy, Francesca, and 2 from New Zealand, Vicki and Simon. It has been so fun and we have learnt so much about all the different cultures. We have also been enjoying the most amazing food as well, our hosts are Robin and Wei Wei [Way-way] and Wei Wei is the most amazing cook we have had some lovely real chinese meals as well as a variety of other food that she has learnt to cook while being here. We have also been treated to some real Spanish and Italian food too! Alicia and Rober have cooked paella (with seafood in it which included mussels and calamari and it was very yummy!) and they will be making Spanish omelette tonight. Francesca cooked real lasagne making the pasta by hand, it was quite tricky as she had to cater for three different diets (me and Alicia helped out and learned a lot), she had to make a meaty one for the majority, then a vegetarian one for Alex (who is the only member of official staff, and who has been brilliant at teaching us what berries to pick and generally keeping us entertained) and a gluten free meaty version for our Kiwi friends. She was amazing and totally unfazed, she just allocated us various jobs (stirring or acquiring ingredients) and just got on with it. She even made a pudding which is a type of cake that uses yeast instead of baking powder, both Alicia and I could only stare in wonder as she assembled this apple pudding (in two version, gluten free and normal).<br />
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Ok to review what we got upto over the last week.<br />
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Saturday we arrived and found out that the weekends are free time on this farm so didn't have to do anything on the day we arrived. We met our Spanish friends first as they had been here for 2 days already. So we were able to get settled in that night and got to know our hosts a bit as well as Alicia and Rober, who come from near Madrid. Alicia has just quit her job working for a company that assesses the route of least disruption to the environment for building gas pipes and roads and thing, but she really didn't like the corruption in doing that job especially when it was the oil companies who were paying for the answers they wanted. Rober is a GP back in Spain but I think he is technically taking time off before going back to work. They will be woofing until Christmas like us. We also went for a walk to see the Dartmoor Ponies at what is known as the Cleave, with Alicia and Rober. <br />
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Robin offered to take us to a local torr in the morning it was brilliant especially as we were allowed to climb on to them and see the most amazing views of Dartmoor.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It was fantastic we had a great time we even stopped off at a church that Robin actually used to go to as a child, his family has been living in the area for a long time. In the afternoon we went for a walk by ourselves to the Cleave again and saw lots of Ponies and Beetles!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">On Monday-Friday we started our short career as blueberry pickers, its not quite as easy as it looks in the beginning. You only pick berries of a certain size and any berries with brown marks or that have been bitten by animals are immediately not able to sell. At the beginning I was not very good at it and both me and Matt got the wrong end of the stick. But over the next few days we were evn able to give advice to our new arrival Francesca. Francesca is lovely, a little shy (however I think this is mostly because she is still learning how to speak English) but she is lovely. She comes from Milan and her family own a vineyard she is also a twin. She has recently just finished her degree in bioscience (?) and genetics, her last year project even looked at genetic markers for those who have lung cancer! She is great fun and learning more and more English everyday she is even studying the english language in the evenings. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have spent most of my days this week picking and talking and teaching various bits of english, but Matt has been doing a variety of things. He has often been borrowed to move things with Alex or fix things or weeding in the vege patch. I feel I should mention that Alex our supervisor and he is not much older than us in fact he is only 25. He has recently got a first doing a degree on environmental science at Plymouth. He is brilliant fun and even taught us to play ping-pong. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">When our Kiwi friends arrived (who have been to North Harton repeatedly as well as can recommend a farm that we have booked in November and were a bit dubious about going to!) lots of different jobs appeared. Me and Fracesca carried on in the blueberry fields but Matt, Alex, Rober, Vicki and Simon were helping to restore one of the barns ready to convert it into more Wwoof accomodation including bathroom facilities. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Vicki and Simon are very experienced wwoofers and travellers, they are fantastic and have been telling us all about some of their adventures all over the world! They have definitely inspired me to travel abroad I felt strange being the only one who had never been to the world a bit. The places they were describing sounded amazing! They are also avid Rugby fans apparently this game is very big in New Zealand and since the Rugby world cup is actually being hosted in New Zealand, we have been getting slightly sucked into it too. They are saying at the moment that this might be there last long trip abroad as they are planning to start up their own Wwoof farm! I may have when they are settled whether they would consider us as wwoofers hehe! On Friday they were quite excited because New Zealand won against Tonga.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">On Saturday we all had the day off so we went to the House of Marbles ( <a href="http://www.houseofmarbles.com/">http://www.houseofmarbles.com/</a> ) Which was fantastic we all went there and saw glass being made.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But after that we went to Lustleigh which is the local and nearest village to the farm! Robin actually went to school there when he was little back when one of the buildings was the old school. We had a little walk around the village and into the local church. We even got to see the devon air amubulance come in to land in one of the fields on their way to rescuing someone. We also saw some lovely cottages I just loved the spelling on one of them.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>sophie and matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12826316236077092933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8280376742066612292.post-857788159780612922011-09-10T22:38:00.064+01:002011-09-11T11:12:37.209+01:00Wales cont......Right I have got lots of piccys to add so I will start with these.<br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Thursday We took on the polytunnel and won! It was full of willow herb plants. Between us we cleared it to the point where we could take up the black plastic underneath and give it a wash and try to remove the roots. We were all very tired, so a very early night was had by all!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Calibri;">While we out the guys had been very busy attempting to sort out the lack of drainage in the recently cleared poly tunnel. This involved adding plastic piping and redigging the land drain to see if this helps. This meant they were quite muddy by the end of this, but it was a job well done! </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Well that was a very busy day which started at 7ish when we finished packing and got ready to leave. Dad very kindly took us to Tiverton which took of a few hours off our journey, Thank you Dad! We decided in the end to take the next train to Bristol as it was quite busy. Once we got to Bristol we got quite confused as there were lots of people on one of the stations and as it turned out there was a Rugby match at Cardiff (which was on our route) and after failing to even get close to getting on the first train and seeing all the more fans arriving we spoke to the travel info guy who was brilliant. He told us to make our way to Bristol Parkway as there would be a bigger train and to go to Swansea and change there for Carmarthen. As it happened a secret extra train was waiting at the station when got there that was heading to Newport. So we actually managed to get back on track after that. The next train despite going Cardiff was pleasantly half full so we got seats and everything! After arriving in Carmarthen the bus was waiting for us and for a mere £3.20 each would take us to practically on the drive of our destination where Michelle was waiting for us with Katie (the most lovely cuddly Spaniel/collie cross).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Got up around 8:45 and got straight to feeding the animals, I went with Michelle to feed all the chickens and ducks (there are at present 5 little productive egg groups with their very shy cockerels and two batches of point of lay, however there will be 3-4 groups left as they are not laying very often so there will be a cull later in the week). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Matt went with Phil and fed the sheep, geese and pigs. After this we had a lovely breakfast and then started the day proper we went and pulled up all the dead broad beans. Their broad bean system is brilliant they have an irrigation system of this recycled tyre piping that slowly leeches water and then over top black plastic sheeting with holes burned into it (132 of them!) which is pinned into place using a large staples. But today we were taking it all up and replacing it with a green manure (which has three purposes as it is a nitrogen fixer, can be used as a compostable material (usually through the chickens/pigs) and a winter flower source for the bees). </span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I have also fallen in love with the idea of using a rotavator it is so much quicker than digging by hand. It was after we finished this that the weather turned to completely sunny and warm which was fantastic. After lunch me and Michelle got on with tying the fruit canes to the wires and Matt and Phil got on with fixing the Pig pen as we shall be moving their Pig and her little 7 young’uns out of the farrow pen into the great outside! </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Right now we are just chilling out and waiting for dinner in 40 mins, when we get to try real sausages from their very own pigs (from last year of course).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Well we have really been getting stuck in and quite quickly getting used to the routine. 8am starting with the moving the pig and all her piglets, (my they have a good set of lungs!) although they were quite quiet once they were securely handled but catching them and when they could see mum again they started back up. They seemed to be thoroughly enjoying their new surrounding from a safe distance around mum. She looked like she was really happy to be back out of the inside pen and back into the pen with lots of room.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"> Then we fed all the animals and let them out before having our breakfast. After that we got to help Phil with the bees. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I had no idea just how organised they really are, it’s fascinating! What we were doing was just checking the balance of each of the hives making sure there was only one queen (in one there were spares that had to sorted/moved) and that there were eggs and young about and counting the number of frames that were populated by the bees. It was brilliant I had no idea that beekeepers use smoke to calm the bees and it really works. It was brilliant we were even able to see how to try and introduce a queen from another hive into a hive where there was no queens and no queens in the making. Fingers crossed she will be alright we shall find out next week when we may also get to help harvest some of the honey! So excited! </span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We have been eating the most fantastic food, yesterday we had a sausage casserole with real homemade sausages and they were delicious, very meaty. After a quick tea break (which are refreshingly frequent) me and Matt finished tying the blackberry and loganberry plants back to the wires, I think I have found my favourite ever job even though I was stung by some insect I have not lost any of my enthusiasm for that task. After assessing the weather and the polytunnel we decided not to attack it to try and bring it back to usable order again, we went to tie back the most amazing blackberry hybrid I have ever seen. It doesn’t look like brambles but it certainly has blackberries on it. The amount of plant growth is astounding, we just kept finding more and more trailing stems all over the place. After the weather got a bit too wet we decided another teabreak was called for. Since the weather did not really improve and it was getting late we decided to do the afternoon chores and settle in for the evening. At the moment we are just waiting for dinner, and chilling out. </span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Right well we had a nice early start as Michelle needed to go and take produce to a coop market (WI started this and local producers have taken it over as community produce mini market). We spent the morning after breakfast finishing up tying up the loganberries and blackberries so that they are relatively neat and tidy. After a quick break we got to watering the squashes and tidy up the rhubarb beds as the weeds were trying to take over. We also got to feed ‘lambchop’ the runt of the sheep who had to be handfed who is so tiny he is named lambchop so that they don’t get to attached too him as he is a meat lamb. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I had a sheep (called Baa baa) that decided to stalk me after I stopped her from getting to lambchop’s food.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We had the most undecided weather one minute it was bright sunshine then it was cold and rainy this evening is trying to be both. I have been attempting to finish my embroidery project and got as far as all the months names on it now lots of decoration to go. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I am a little apprehensive about tomorrow as we will be culling one of the chicken groups as they are no longer laying. </span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Well today was the day I was kinda apprehensive about, today was chicken culling day. We got up and fed everything (but the fated chickens) before having breakfast and getting on with the job at hand. I decided to help Phil clean and sweep the chimney instead of doing the chickens, so we spent quite a while getting it all ready to go. Matt and Michelle were getting on with the chickens and had finished four (killing, skinning and gutting them) before the rayburn was ready to go. Rather than produce a lot of offal and bones and things to find a space to dispose of them, they put it all in the Rayburn and burn it up. I would never have thought to do this, but it is fantastic all the bits they can’t utilise get burnt and the ash is then something they can use. I actually did manage to pluck (no pun intended) enough courage to see how it was done and it wasn’t half as nasty as I had supposed. It is very quick and there is no suffering at all, they barely know what happened. I think now that even though I didn’t have the courage to have a go today I feel prepared if needed to do the deed. After lunch we got on with the last of the chickens and then (Matt) cleaned out the chicken ark and (Me and Michelle) put plenty of bark in the enclosure, ready to move the youngsters down this evening. At the moment we are just waiting to help out with a very large batch of chutney.</span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Well last night we successfully moved 27 partially unconscious chickens into the new pen (note to self this is the best way to move chickens ever!). In the morning they had a bit of a steep learning curve as they all sussed out the ramp to get out of the house. Only half of them realised that they had to go out of the run (by running away from the food) in order to get to the food. But other than that all other feedings were pretty normal, the ducks still and hissed like a bottle of lemonade and wheezed continuously. After that we got to work on finishing the second rhubarb bed. We were really lucky with the weather we had a lovely sunny day with nice breaks of clouds to cool us off (it was so nice that I may have burned my face slightly). We continued to have very nice weather all the while we were sorting out the raspberries. They needed weeding, pruning and tying back, we managed about<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a 1/3 to a ½ of them done when we realised it was probably time to feed the animals and collect all their feeders. Me and Matt offered to pick plums and managed to get a medium crate full despite the tree trying really hard not to allow many of its fruits to ripen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"> After the picking we sat down with Michelle and prepared them for the freezer (and some for dessert) while listening to the archers. The Archers I am beginning to realise is a Woofing trend with them being the second place that I have been to that listens to this radio programme. We were pretty much banking on not having much to do this evening when Phil discovered that the chickens that we moved last night hadn’t gone to bed and were hiding in a bush in their pen. So we donned our overalls for a very amusing adventure. Firstly, Matt went to put his boots on to suddenly come face to face with a sleeping chicken and Phil found one on the trailer. After catching those two (which didn’t take much since they were almost unconscious) but the other 25 were not quite as easy, but eventually we caught as many as we could see and we shall just have to see how many appear at breakfast time and then a wing clipping session may be on the cards. We are now completely shattered so to bed!</span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I woke this morning and to my relief I hadn’t burned my face and the weather was relatively good so we got on and dug up all the garlic with Phil. They were all grown under black plastic and it is amazing there were hardly any weeds. Last year apparently their garlic didn’t really do well but this year we have found that most of them were a good size. The smell followed us for quite a while especially when we washed them ready to be plaited another day. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Michelle had a very busy day as tomorrow is market day for Phil so she was off picking for most of the day. So we got on and helped Phil with another row of tying, weeding, and pruning the raspberries. This actually took until almost four o’clock by then we needed to get on with the afternoon feeding. Then with the help of Phil and a slightly scary ladder we harvested another 4 bags worth of plums ready for jamming at a later date. At the moment we are just waiting to see if we will need to put all the young chickens to bed or whether they will figure out how to go to bed on their own (since they have to work out how to use the ramp I am not sure!).</span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This is supposedly Michelles day off (which really means she has time to do general gardening) we got up a little later and Phil went off to market to sell goods picked yesterday. So we got to help Michelle do some gardening. We started with the drive (which included removing a dead budlea! I never thought that happened) and then taking out enough stuff in the back garden to warrant having a lovely bonfire hehe! Lots of strategic bramble removal as well as baby ash removal (they are taking over here). Then in the afternoon Michelle showed us how to cook Welsh Cakes a local recipe. That evening both of us just crashed we didn’t even really last until 9-10pm tea time!</span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This has possibly been one of the busiest days so far! Me and Michelle made around 80 jars of jam! We made marmalade, plum, blackberry and apple, blackcurrant, loganberry and apple and we attempted to rescue a batch of strawberry jam. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Matt and Phil spent the day outside (luckily in the sun) fixing the pig pen and the pig pen fencing. Matt has also really got into beekeeping and spends much of his time off reading books on beekeeping and picking up hints and tips from Phil. Matt was lucky enough to be involved with catching a swarm! Later on in the day me and Michelle finished the day with finishing a batch of beetroot chutney (which is fab! Especially on cheese on toast). Around 8pm Michelle taught me how to knit again and I am now knitting with 4 needles to make a circular object (hopefully to start making woollen socks). </span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Today was again nice and busy in the morning we started by putting out 4 trays worth of beetroot plants. We also got another tutorial in beekeeping, it is brilliant later on tonight we are harvesting honey! So watch this spot!</span><br />
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</div>sophie and matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12826316236077092933noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8280376742066612292.post-48249750459763798672011-08-12T23:10:00.000+01:002011-08-12T23:10:59.323+01:00Very Busy Bees cont....<span style="color: red;">(I feel I should warn you if you don't like spider piccys then look not at this post!)</span>phew well I have finally taken the piccys of the after in the living room right in time to need to start the whole before and after thing on the hall and dining room, hehe! So here are piccys of the lounge after all the work.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Then we ripped up most of the downstairs floor boards!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Phew we just keep on doing things anyway I better go have to pack to go to Wales hehe! byeeeeee x x x x x x x x sophie and matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12826316236077092933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8280376742066612292.post-67798707504950919182011-08-11T14:54:00.003+01:002011-08-11T14:56:00.534+01:00Very Busy Bees<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We got back from WWOOFing in Cornwall having had the most fabulous time and totally enthused to garden and do stuff. As we missed Mummy bee’s actual birthday we came down in the morning of the next day and gave her our pressies for her. I had also spent a very early morning making a stealth birthday cake, which I surprised her with and we had lemon drizzle cake for breakfast. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">Mummy getting her pressies</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxRe69s_jH43H-wSRv6IBXNWB9fP9EC7mj-F8b9S8PvUVrm1uZ2G1rH_hPTieHFTC0tfHKKcNJJe_wKOjpbg4P3GMrkEnt0RiRmT4e-_SdlsPQcReQ6uMLyGxU_3Rwo6Nufe6dnSI8t2E/s1600/2011_0804General0003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" closure_uid_xfh89h="262" height="480" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxRe69s_jH43H-wSRv6IBXNWB9fP9EC7mj-F8b9S8PvUVrm1uZ2G1rH_hPTieHFTC0tfHKKcNJJe_wKOjpbg4P3GMrkEnt0RiRmT4e-_SdlsPQcReQ6uMLyGxU_3Rwo6Nufe6dnSI8t2E/s640/2011_0804General0003.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">We also went out with everyone, including Grandpa and Grandma, to the Tarka Inn and had a fantastic meal! Many laughs and silly photos were taken and we went home rather full and happy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8ZhIO-3UP5H8pBToe6YZ2Iqf8RVqR4Ttmv065lbgszto88CBx_tyeksISz-CIfWIX0dgj6gDouwfgiCjwXd1vlgjAOB8oiSpBxO82IieRHz1AdKEYbW6kBzG71FuD844FeEKuTwaCdfw/s1600/2011_0804General0009.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" closure_uid_xfh89h="339" height="480" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8ZhIO-3UP5H8pBToe6YZ2Iqf8RVqR4Ttmv065lbgszto88CBx_tyeksISz-CIfWIX0dgj6gDouwfgiCjwXd1vlgjAOB8oiSpBxO82IieRHz1AdKEYbW6kBzG71FuD844FeEKuTwaCdfw/s640/2011_0804General0009.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Mummy and Grandpa at the Tarka</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We started the day of the 4th (Matt's birthday) with pressies and kind of ended it with a huge jaffa cake! I think we may have started a new tradition after the success of the jaffa. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We have also been crazily turning the house into a beautiful home which included many coats of paint and completely sanding the whole floor in the front room and then varnishing it as well. It has to be said that Dad (especially Dad), Kez (who valiantly did lots of the nasty painted edges) and Matt (who helped especially with hitting hundreds of nails back into the boards) worked like stink for two days to make it look beautiful. We then painted the living room walls and ceiling and I did all the woodwork. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Then the boys were given a little bit of time off while I varnished the floor.Before all this took place Mummy bee and Kez also primed and painted reams of bookcases! They all look fantastic and then they completed the room when we put them back and filled them with books. Me and Mummy bee spent a whole morning alphabetising them and the after a brain wave Mummy made patterns out of the books making them a feature of the room rather than part of the walls.I have to say that the room looks absolutely fab and we are due to do the same to the Dining room over the next couple of weeks. A man has been booked to fix the joist today and the wood that we need is also being delivered today ready to turn the dining room around! We are also planning to sand the hall at somepoint and replace some of the boards as they are not in good nick.</span><br />
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<strong>Here are some before piccys:</strong><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is from 2009 december but it gives you some idea of what it looked like before</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Another December shot but of the bookcases before they were painted</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Matt punching the nails back into the boards, they had to use ear defender as the noise was horrendous</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC2gfN1JWHd6Pnfsqaivl4a773R66kf7NkM6cXM_wl0G9TmEtgwlMx9igstVTVPuUNaTL6yqdxn8SyOSPl7pxMVj3B4rHAaxCHcZYXiODhw1IbVjPpXEFan898c4izIi0ZZFDuUstYSMw/s1600/P1010048.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" closure_uid_xfh89h="151" height="480" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC2gfN1JWHd6Pnfsqaivl4a773R66kf7NkM6cXM_wl0G9TmEtgwlMx9igstVTVPuUNaTL6yqdxn8SyOSPl7pxMVj3B4rHAaxCHcZYXiODhw1IbVjPpXEFan898c4izIi0ZZFDuUstYSMw/s640/P1010048.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">All of the boys (including Dad hehe!) punching the nails again there were hundreds and it took 1 and a half days to do.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There will be some more piccys but unfortunately I need to actually take them first hehe! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So to be continued...........</div></div>sophie and matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12826316236077092933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8280376742066612292.post-23120924817240777552011-08-04T23:51:00.000+01:002011-08-04T23:51:42.851+01:00Graduation!Right I thought it was about time that wrote about Graduation, I think I have been in total denial about it ever happening. It totally didn't seem real, meeting Floella Benjamin (thank goodness I didn't realise who she was until after the ceremony!) was magical she just gives off such a warm and loving vibe. She spoke to each and every graduate and said different things to each of us, she told me that I was positively glowing and to promise to do my best to make the world a better place.<br />
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It was lovely to go and officially become a graduate, I now have earned a Bsc (hons) in Psychology! We were all very excited and wearing our posh stuff and silly gowns and hats (plus a weird blue hood that draped over your shoulders twas very odd), even our tutor had to wear a silly outfit (see piccy below)!<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9bdC7omr1eQLadwNcYU2AQyOTHygTnt6chOeJXSh2FY33PKVhvhZdkHS1naU_-0SDSAK0sguDBtBPiBwo8IPMO1f3Bmxd1LG8Pp5l3l6UFmFxYgUkf9Voc_oHHxBsF5h1EpzIqVPjgYk/s1600/IMG_6694.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9bdC7omr1eQLadwNcYU2AQyOTHygTnt6chOeJXSh2FY33PKVhvhZdkHS1naU_-0SDSAK0sguDBtBPiBwo8IPMO1f3Bmxd1LG8Pp5l3l6UFmFxYgUkf9Voc_oHHxBsF5h1EpzIqVPjgYk/s640/IMG_6694.JPG" t$="true" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Me and the girls, we all appeared to be looking in different cameras at the same time I don't think that there is a single shot with us all in where we are all looking into the same camera! hehe!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia4p8MHiRMnuN_TIbgKlUH5kh_S6lvjSyu-5Tr6Xb3scV-V-lxS_c632AdfG_gUWxkSQhkjAo9-EZ4lI0ja5NiqILCfyiQ7r38oWWI7FQO8Q4k72ryW86ZmbqBUjLVDpmcO7a9fjNxtnw/s1600/IMG_6723.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia4p8MHiRMnuN_TIbgKlUH5kh_S6lvjSyu-5Tr6Xb3scV-V-lxS_c632AdfG_gUWxkSQhkjAo9-EZ4lI0ja5NiqILCfyiQ7r38oWWI7FQO8Q4k72ryW86ZmbqBUjLVDpmcO7a9fjNxtnw/s640/IMG_6723.JPG" t$="true" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Another group shot with (from the left) Pang, Me, Laura, Zoe and Mary-Ann.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh07sakiT8izAAKHo7xVKoT-HNZj4kgAVXw9Evyalx-75JC4X_Wx-v93AYKs1aGTl7ZrbWupveHtX5asdJuR261-I9-w59LvsP0NwO1HpzZT8FD2PRSdym2z4kWf2vKYbJXrKy2tcIDmBI/s1600/IMG_6724.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh07sakiT8izAAKHo7xVKoT-HNZj4kgAVXw9Evyalx-75JC4X_Wx-v93AYKs1aGTl7ZrbWupveHtX5asdJuR261-I9-w59LvsP0NwO1HpzZT8FD2PRSdym2z4kWf2vKYbJXrKy2tcIDmBI/s640/IMG_6724.JPG" t$="true" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">All of us doing the traditional throwing of the hats forgetting how far we could throw them and that they wouldn't be in shot, oops!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit3cdi6Gz_XnC0WlTVZetJ_xkUx7fmsIEjxXDbqtylIF9BFSNNPGZqDwjIL0uGXEtbg-l6dWSnV1N7EaF-GA3gso9NaEC8drHnpSPr52ncDc0SB8zErep4ZRFvCUS83JMUiMGPKOvj09w/s1600/285304_1878651126878_1259273423_31646173_4700458_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit3cdi6Gz_XnC0WlTVZetJ_xkUx7fmsIEjxXDbqtylIF9BFSNNPGZqDwjIL0uGXEtbg-l6dWSnV1N7EaF-GA3gso9NaEC8drHnpSPr52ncDc0SB8zErep4ZRFvCUS83JMUiMGPKOvj09w/s320/285304_1878651126878_1259273423_31646173_4700458_n.jpg" t$="true" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Me and Matt, and even in heels I barely reach his chin hehe!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">There I believe I have done the whole degree thing better justice (to be honest it still doesn't feel real, I don't think it will until I get to October and I don't go back to Uni). It was a totally fantastic surreal day, we got on the train and then did the whole celebration and then got back on the train and went back to WWOOFing pretty much like nothing happened like, it was a dream, a really good one! x x x </div>sophie and matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12826316236077092933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8280376742066612292.post-72270869858235510572011-07-24T23:38:00.002+01:002011-08-04T18:35:43.387+01:00Eden<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Phew well we have been busy and I also feel like now would be a good time to write about Eden and graduation which I have managed to fail writing about. Well let’s start with Eden as this is in line with the whole WWOOFing blog element. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For anyone who hasn’t been to the Eden Project and is interested in permaculture and where our food really comes from, you must go! It was amazing I spent nearly the whole time in awe, a lot of the information I had picked up from being home educated but still it is amazing to see it all not just hear about it. Their way of spreading the word about needing to know about where our food and energy comes from is second to none. Everywhere were posters about projects they are involved in all over the world, and the biomes were awe inspiring aside from being the biggest greenhouses I have ever seen, the plants and trees that are growing inside them were huge and most of them you wouldn’t otherwise see in England. I didn’t know that we can actually grow bananas here in England! They had a whole row of them outside in the garden as well as in the biomes.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I am seriously looking forward to our next visit! I think I should mention that another reason that I enjoyed my visit was because Matt also proposed in the Mediterranean Biome hehe!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">But anyway here are some of the pictures that Matt took there!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1zj9ne0SUVgEWpGzpuQq8CIwOWWfTHCtMn38Brt_xOn9z53jUnZ1SEbPVGMMY-2-K-w8zhiNL_RtN-zK26j8JIDvs9DJJmaWV152BG8vi5y_ma4zfErJ5f_pE36kAmCJDbNEoplQC-Lk/s1600/coombe+barton+101.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1zj9ne0SUVgEWpGzpuQq8CIwOWWfTHCtMn38Brt_xOn9z53jUnZ1SEbPVGMMY-2-K-w8zhiNL_RtN-zK26j8JIDvs9DJJmaWV152BG8vi5y_ma4zfErJ5f_pE36kAmCJDbNEoplQC-Lk/s400/coombe+barton+101.JPG" t$="true" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The giant bee! hehe!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwQr8zuYqewMXum15tsI76ojK6sKwzbt-wCR5EEi7YM-toG_S55Fp0Y6P3JgZ6Hsmg_NBltpiQAQO7po5JUaB2VCC1VhgjulGkOjTeWidkpE2TKDImCF54awIVCgXjnGbhlmoOn_opUDM/s1600/coombe+barton+161.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwQr8zuYqewMXum15tsI76ojK6sKwzbt-wCR5EEi7YM-toG_S55Fp0Y6P3JgZ6Hsmg_NBltpiQAQO7po5JUaB2VCC1VhgjulGkOjTeWidkpE2TKDImCF54awIVCgXjnGbhlmoOn_opUDM/s400/coombe+barton+161.JPG" t$="true" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is an Allium flower they are amazing and were in the border round the cafe at the biome</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg07TyM3Sox1lohsSHmzZ9T1Vli3SZMl2AnFH_5b8TL1N0tlR_syOCcPz-I07EQWwQUb_zPaTNWwRxmA4rpMyTwHi3P6E65KEbT15QyTF7WedkZUp-zfE8sbYVg0vM-yY8BTCR_j646Lec/s1600/coombe+barton+162.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg07TyM3Sox1lohsSHmzZ9T1Vli3SZMl2AnFH_5b8TL1N0tlR_syOCcPz-I07EQWwQUb_zPaTNWwRxmA4rpMyTwHi3P6E65KEbT15QyTF7WedkZUp-zfE8sbYVg0vM-yY8BTCR_j646Lec/s320/coombe+barton+162.JPG" t$="true" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I just loved the sheer orangeness of this flower</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-gbXHIIWok_vxocO2dX6DYIkmxeQ6T1dq3ZY8323mqX2qNgCkNWxzpV-bv1a1sFVMyRzj4taNsh6ZGY24RWpBBOJP7PShkQkKaW2Blzqxmep7ns2Rk0IYKmkss3uEUMkbXl-vSnrlKYI/s1600/coombe+barton+170.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-gbXHIIWok_vxocO2dX6DYIkmxeQ6T1dq3ZY8323mqX2qNgCkNWxzpV-bv1a1sFVMyRzj4taNsh6ZGY24RWpBBOJP7PShkQkKaW2Blzqxmep7ns2Rk0IYKmkss3uEUMkbXl-vSnrlKYI/s640/coombe+barton+170.JPG" t$="true" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I can't remember what this is but I just loved the way that it was utilising the architecture as a climbing frame.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Anyway I better go as it is very late I shall write about my graduation another time, so byeee for now x x x </div>sophie and matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12826316236077092933noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8280376742066612292.post-4466411435556654212011-07-22T22:31:00.000+01:002011-07-22T22:31:02.024+01:00travel, wwoof, eat, talk, enjoyhello out there <br />
we have been off wwoofing and i can now tell you it is definatly worth quiting your dead end job moving house and county to be with your girlfriend to wwoof. so if all you need to get the ball rolling to start wwoofing is a little encoragment let this be it you will never regret it as it will give you memorys and experinces you will cherish for years so get you and do it travel, wwoof, eat, talk, enjoy,<br />
there are a few things ide like to metion i reccomend you bring while wwoofing this may change as we contiune wwoofing but hear is a small list followed by photos of our adventures this week<br />
<ol><li>socks. i never have enough</li>
<li>camera. to remeber what you did with out it i forgett</li>
<li>phone. to phone home if you get signal!!</li>
<li>belt. dont know why but its been usefull to hang things off </li>
<li>good knife and secertares. that are sharp you cant complain if yours are blunt</li>
<li>mp.3 times on trains disapear </li>
<li>water proof coat </li>
<li>good quality boots</li>
<li>welly boots</li>
<li>smile dont cost a penny</li>
</ol><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3gJ-ttwOuMm3_McWauV4S7CnUCTMnhYxXCJ_DjtlX6lzIq6lVi0Q9FDIykluao6d6h5ps8-vWvk9Ldd739TMe-O8d4EFEQvm-K9gSvhBzH0yXShMC7BvUv3CxPDdjRxmT_vutygZDNCE/s1600/IMG_6876.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3gJ-ttwOuMm3_McWauV4S7CnUCTMnhYxXCJ_DjtlX6lzIq6lVi0Q9FDIykluao6d6h5ps8-vWvk9Ldd739TMe-O8d4EFEQvm-K9gSvhBzH0yXShMC7BvUv3CxPDdjRxmT_vutygZDNCE/s400/IMG_6876.JPG" t$="true" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> this is the mud maid at the lost gardens of heligan in cornwall its such a odd sculpture </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbkDy8SSN8yR_zlRjsJzoJPltNVRregUkSkDU8pcv3iv1SgTeWl7umkmA72laBm7slEbk9ajTtOPdfbKZs-T0GLEHjJod_Ogr5KQRZ73smjK-EokTZ0gP8e1nsVLx8MDqRQLHxXc0boFk/s1600/IMG_7008.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbkDy8SSN8yR_zlRjsJzoJPltNVRregUkSkDU8pcv3iv1SgTeWl7umkmA72laBm7slEbk9ajTtOPdfbKZs-T0GLEHjJod_Ogr5KQRZ73smjK-EokTZ0gP8e1nsVLx8MDqRQLHxXc0boFk/s400/IMG_7008.JPG" t$="true" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> this is sophie and carol our wwoof hostess under train apple trees at heligan </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpzHc0yQoHWtUR1Dek-XD7AGEuYAi4em7XoGXyB-uhtChRolROjOhxTRdOaZN430H5CW2gVk4XFQDIdVXlJ3uenkKfbO2m7H7JoNTb1qyPaiI_L9Z7Pycjn2e8rZX_G2v9KTnyJVB1_fI/s1600/R0015336.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpzHc0yQoHWtUR1Dek-XD7AGEuYAi4em7XoGXyB-uhtChRolROjOhxTRdOaZN430H5CW2gVk4XFQDIdVXlJ3uenkKfbO2m7H7JoNTb1qyPaiI_L9Z7Pycjn2e8rZX_G2v9KTnyJVB1_fI/s400/R0015336.JPG" t$="true" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">this is miss brown (she has not got married yet) she stalks sophie when she dose the waters at coombe barton house</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhru9FIw6jBvMQf5F1R3IEAHZ_QvBQHJB4ZiMMe8Ss3tZAoouOXby3Lk8fHqQS0c2HfCh4YXskJh3PFAL2R3qLwHBaP4Eop48z7IIUwaXYNQ62Hpg36Ar414Yqx6DhnMhBY6kZ-tNtt02g/s1600/IMG_6774.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhru9FIw6jBvMQf5F1R3IEAHZ_QvBQHJB4ZiMMe8Ss3tZAoouOXby3Lk8fHqQS0c2HfCh4YXskJh3PFAL2R3qLwHBaP4Eop48z7IIUwaXYNQ62Hpg36Ar414Yqx6DhnMhBY6kZ-tNtt02g/s400/IMG_6774.JPG" t$="true" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">hear is a selection of fruit we picked in our time at coombe barton i enjoyed them all yummuy</div><br />
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we were very lucky as in the feed room there was a nest of sparrows hear is a photo of them feeding they have grown so fast and are so big now i will be taking a photo just before i leave to keep a memory of them for the future<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitvebqDXBU1iqMAS7gV09x0reMXQ6nnANFKTCiLnGVkX6GD6QSfzLwkOI1iTdj-8XzVP9dGSBaOkxawirQqdJMu2QMZ6KpP9C8oG4c4DyDeajorr5DWj2xpnPt5zyOkKN7b3Gz011Lo2s/s1600/IMG_6869.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitvebqDXBU1iqMAS7gV09x0reMXQ6nnANFKTCiLnGVkX6GD6QSfzLwkOI1iTdj-8XzVP9dGSBaOkxawirQqdJMu2QMZ6KpP9C8oG4c4DyDeajorr5DWj2xpnPt5zyOkKN7b3Gz011Lo2s/s400/IMG_6869.JPG" t$="true" width="266" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">the end</div>sophie and matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12826316236077092933noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8280376742066612292.post-13987873181499605682011-07-19T15:59:00.000+01:002011-07-19T15:59:39.324+01:00Weaving, horses and woodland walks!<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Haha, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I have just found some time on this terribly rainy day to write a new blog post. Firstly I should say just how much we are enjoying being here still, I am half sad that we are not here tomorrow as Carol is going to Mavis’s again, but I am also extremely excited about graduating. We have been doing so much we have a sort of routine going (that this morning did not entirely happen as every one was so tired we all woke up late. Just to explain the title the weaving is not of the rug kind, but it is Minty he weaves behind me when I walk with him hehe. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">So to keep you all up to date:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Monday was a lovely day spent driving around and gardening at Mavis’s. We also met a lady called Josie who is also a WWOOF host who has this amazing garden full of vege, she also gave Carol some plants, a mustard plant (which turned out to be four!) and spinach tree! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">After we fed and watered all the animals we packed a lunch and headed to the Eden Project. This was absolutely amazing (and we even have a ticket that means we can go back within a year for free!) there were some amazing plants in the Biomes. The whole place is so wonderfully laid out, and at a particularly picturesque part of the Mediterranean Biome Matt proposed hehe!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS9kcTLIjW-N37_CfEKSNYqH0lRDW7P_qW2NuEIoS8735_lJHbQ4O3wfzMXznsbADu8e7tMM9LNUHiLjC4-1U_jooNkGDR73FjL8zCL3gSDk6ufOOxzpdvHE3coDAG8rqEimAraAycJIQ/s1600/coombe+barton+200.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS9kcTLIjW-N37_CfEKSNYqH0lRDW7P_qW2NuEIoS8735_lJHbQ4O3wfzMXznsbADu8e7tMM9LNUHiLjC4-1U_jooNkGDR73FjL8zCL3gSDk6ufOOxzpdvHE3coDAG8rqEimAraAycJIQ/s320/coombe+barton+200.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Me after I said yes!</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It was a wonderful place and now it is one that we will have to visit again. There were some amazing plants and we learned a lot about where different plants come from and what they are used for. I may have to do a complete eden blog as there is so much to write about and so many piccys!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Thursday:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">This was the day that the rain started, me and Carol weeded the vegetable garden it is now looking even better than before. Matt also dug out a channel for all the water to drain away from the stables as Carol has to soak and drain the horses hay as they are prone to laminitis. He also started the pea containers in the poly tunnel. So that was a very productive day. I even found a lizard and a slow worm while weeding the edges.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Friday:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Me and Carol finished weeding the vege garden in the rain and Matt finished the hanging thing in the poly tunnel. Then we both murdered many brambles in an attempt to reclaim part of the front garden.</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik3mOlrPbmFwBFO3n_tklne_us77yI3o1vR2vaJevX-PSEKLdILWLFTltAAnbW9YC2fUZ9NElCTUA1Q2xhdr3ZXh2xz7F1Ytyqo5wKXuhqWybGbQ3d0R6KniQDz4lh3yhccO8cfvo8aNQ/s1600/R0015258.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik3mOlrPbmFwBFO3n_tklne_us77yI3o1vR2vaJevX-PSEKLdILWLFTltAAnbW9YC2fUZ9NElCTUA1Q2xhdr3ZXh2xz7F1Ytyqo5wKXuhqWybGbQ3d0R6KniQDz4lh3yhccO8cfvo8aNQ/s400/R0015258.JPG" width="400" /></a></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Saturday:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We weeded the poly tunnel and removed most of the strawberry plants to move them outside. We also removed a lot of the rocket and took all the flowers off the plants in the greenhouse. We also discovered that there are four baby swallows in the feed store. We also found the frog (that we thought had disappeared) in the poly tunnel and saw the hedgehog and got a piccy of him. I also have been teaching carol how to view pictures on her laptop. We stayed up very late talking with Carol. I also bucked up the courage to cook macaroni cheese and vege.</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Here are a few piccys I wanted to add:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQtk6EtMNTuFN8iV7ZYkFOmtt7732xlIAEd-5MEn6Qh8SjlArpqG40kanbmQyY4D80Z6OTZBH4mw-i1_nS_39_ptAWSN2hoxRn0OXpN-0k57EWC881ADzMcTIkXT39G2MJBOaSbgS-0F4/s1600/coombe+barton+053.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" m$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQtk6EtMNTuFN8iV7ZYkFOmtt7732xlIAEd-5MEn6Qh8SjlArpqG40kanbmQyY4D80Z6OTZBH4mw-i1_nS_39_ptAWSN2hoxRn0OXpN-0k57EWC881ADzMcTIkXT39G2MJBOaSbgS-0F4/s320/coombe+barton+053.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I was so excited to get there that I had to take a piccy of the sign.</div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Calibri;">Byeeeeeee x x x</span></div>sophie and matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12826316236077092933noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8280376742066612292.post-795647257715764812011-07-11T22:58:00.000+01:002011-07-11T22:58:52.947+01:00First WWOOFing place yay!<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hehe, Greetings from Cornwall! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We have been having a whale of a time. Carol and Tony are brilliant, they are so lovely to us, we feel so spoilt with the gorgeous food we have been having. They are so interesting too as they have done so many different things, I have thoroughly enjoyed talking about all the things that they have done over the years. Most of the time we have been helping Carol with the garden and animals.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">These include two dogs, Minty (a blue marle type colouring Collie. There will be some piccys soon I just keep forgetting to take them) and Reaver (black brown and white Collie), who are the most fun and sweetest of collies. They both love to get involved (including Reaver biting streams of water from the hose hehe!) and follow you around until they are completely knackered! Minty is the quieter of the two and he is a real sweety, he always so happy to see people especially in the morning. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">There are also two cats, Ginger and Jessica, Ginger as his name suggests is a big ginger tabby and Jessy is a grey, brown and gingery tabby/tortie and they are so friendly. It’s so funny if you don’t pay attention to them they will sit on the thing you are paying attention to! There are also two horses (Shadow and Rupert) which have been allaying most of my fears of horses, they are so good natured. I have spent both my mornings sweeping around them and giving Shadow attention and cuddles (I can’t cuddle Rupert otherwise Shadow gets jealous and pushes him around). </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">There are 4 sheep who I can’t remember the names of yet but I will. Emily and Alice are the goats, we have had lots of cuddles and strokes with Emily she seems to love attention and uses you as a scratching post if you stay still for any length of time hehe! There are also loads of chickens! The only ones that I can remember the names of are Mrs Black, Miss White and Jesus (the cockerel) apparently Jesus was named as such by previous WOOFers, due to his miraculous recovery from what looked like his demise as a chick! There are also four ducks who over two days have come to accept me as no longer a threat to their water antics hehe! It is possible in my tired state that I have missed a few, in fact I have just remembered the swallows, and although they are not considered pets we have been watching their nests over the last few days. They have used the inside of the stables as a perfect place to nest and have their babies. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Phew and that’s just the animals! We have also spent a lot of time in the garden. The first day we mostly got to know the animals and where everything was. But the second day we had a very chilled out Sunday, we pulled up potatoes and picked black currants and Gooseberries, and did bits and pieces with the animals. However, today we did a bit more, in the morning we helped with the animals, and then I attempted to poo pick the horses field, I felt like it used to at Nana and Grandy’s! Matt went and picked some more Gooseberries and helped Carol with a few things. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Then we went to help a lovely lady called Mavis with her garden (Carol helps her out as she can’t do as much as she used to), me and Matt weeded and straightened up the edges, which Carol said Mavis was really happy about, while Carol mowed the lawn. We then went to her next door neighbour, who has the most amazing vegetable garden, unfortunately we didn’t have the camera when she showed us around. I was really impressed with Carols garden, and this one was even bigger! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Blimey, I have written loads I had better go to bed but I will write again soon. Carol and Tony have given us permission to use their internet as long as we don’t download stuff, so I am going to ask if I can put some piccys on tomorrow! Anyways good night and hopefully write again tomorrow, sorry if grammar is a bit skewiff I am a bit tired hehe! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Byeeeeeeeee x x x x x x x x x x x</span></div>sophie and matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12826316236077092933noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8280376742066612292.post-69611493066564089352011-06-30T16:57:00.000+01:002011-06-30T16:57:48.404+01:00over grown, home grown.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">hello there me again the ninja (Matt). weather is awesome hear in north Devon, so if your reading this and i use to work near you and the weather is poo out side, ha ha ha ha ha. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">any way gloating over, we have the oddest wwoofing blog going, as we have not actually started yet were still working in Sophie's parents house and garden. we will be leaving for our first wwoofing house soon i just forget the dates. Sophie's parents garden its one hell of a wilderness, some days it seams like i shall never tame it ( i wont there is too much for just me) but ill keep trying, hacking meter after meter in to terrace after terrace, i have found seven so far and I'm not half way up the garden!!!!!! to give you some idea of scale, the forth terrace higher than our bed room and were in the attic. it is hard to explain how steep this garden is some days. the house is cut it to a old quarry behind the house is a sheet slate wall higher than the house, its quite impressive really, it has been reclaimed by the wild so the local birds nest all along the wall, with out worry of predators. the garden is very hard work most days i cannot wait to wwoof in a garden with a tamed flat section ha ha .</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgibAE5HMuFpcwgqHYjzACp2gkqg1iuzyGfrkH7ifOUh0RgZQlsK_Xkou7rM7sU6YVukcx3_MMFb50zil02zRC1DBYhzwQDKduUb6E6pM4_z2HdBQ3o6lYUfn-9gjkAesb-ruXgOp_lF2Y/s1600/R0015027.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgibAE5HMuFpcwgqHYjzACp2gkqg1iuzyGfrkH7ifOUh0RgZQlsK_Xkou7rM7sU6YVukcx3_MMFb50zil02zRC1DBYhzwQDKduUb6E6pM4_z2HdBQ3o6lYUfn-9gjkAesb-ruXgOp_lF2Y/s640/R0015027.JPG" width="640" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">above is a picture of the house in the woods. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9ecwKwbHOWdbGlZzJrvtQGi6RRIWxRnvuAAaXJ5GZS2mswcDkIOPHhgWPC6T5hEa9kjO03XqRxlA00JlKqNcrUB4mSa26KLwcWAlGfPveHlaTrj7-sOVld-J0jJUlB9YOh3qhsOpJ-6Q/s1600/IMG_6687.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="425" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9ecwKwbHOWdbGlZzJrvtQGi6RRIWxRnvuAAaXJ5GZS2mswcDkIOPHhgWPC6T5hEa9kjO03XqRxlA00JlKqNcrUB4mSa26KLwcWAlGfPveHlaTrj7-sOVld-J0jJUlB9YOh3qhsOpJ-6Q/s640/IMG_6687.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">hear are some home grown Gooseberries, red currants, black currants, raspberries we "found" in the garden. the gooseberries were hidden in a mess of knot weed that almost faced the wrath of a brush cutter. this fruit was made in to yummy jam that is now in my tummy so no you cant have any.</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbRRfr-NSZbX6QOGaSY7juoTYZo-7vZlPl_qnAAf_36h2Ek07kTShhmDNTWmdd-HbXMMZ51rTN246g7Us4FjWjr98qTG8zZiTSM3vPLyaZh3U7ShgGmAQ45ZDZCimXCIV6IjisCBccl0k/s1600/R0015019.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbRRfr-NSZbX6QOGaSY7juoTYZo-7vZlPl_qnAAf_36h2Ek07kTShhmDNTWmdd-HbXMMZ51rTN246g7Us4FjWjr98qTG8zZiTSM3vPLyaZh3U7ShgGmAQ45ZDZCimXCIV6IjisCBccl0k/s640/R0015019.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">while we were bored one day we went for a bike ride, hear is proof that Sophie can ride a bike, she still claims she cannot turn corners. Sophie's brother Carey helped her with some confidence games to help her ride more confidently, which helped. </div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAW9gYG2JpZrzi6ghJe00T0yWYShjnGTwzUH1-TLKZBG1EgcaXdzWYSXLnpdG0M3jPoGQ4VNbv99X3iHOz_OMtFCfVaNtt607VSsQI_QOPz-MkjMCJx0qPgsPRGEMa3mDRlcNM77KrbMs/s1600/R0014975.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAW9gYG2JpZrzi6ghJe00T0yWYShjnGTwzUH1-TLKZBG1EgcaXdzWYSXLnpdG0M3jPoGQ4VNbv99X3iHOz_OMtFCfVaNtt607VSsQI_QOPz-MkjMCJx0qPgsPRGEMa3mDRlcNM77KrbMs/s640/R0014975.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">on my last blog i told you about the untamed terrace hear is some photos. </div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd82tbB_U8h_UFoHUGYqrQHgZt6PYHh8OzPF3bF-8t3zAswQHpX9XVqt-o6W0xDdu-XXl2qmbOzGuEvl10UHbbclEPqO_TSXmvZb6JohcsjN_ZqxucHNUSU5ztG4iQDiT6tydCk14lY6Y/s1600/R0014976.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd82tbB_U8h_UFoHUGYqrQHgZt6PYHh8OzPF3bF-8t3zAswQHpX9XVqt-o6W0xDdu-XXl2qmbOzGuEvl10UHbbclEPqO_TSXmvZb6JohcsjN_ZqxucHNUSU5ztG4iQDiT6tydCk14lY6Y/s640/R0014976.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">i have now found the boundary wall 2 meters further to the right of this photo. </div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>sophie and matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12826316236077092933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8280376742066612292.post-90641677301398917602011-06-20T22:40:00.001+01:002011-06-20T22:42:21.205+01:00WWOOFing ......... at home?Hehe, I have only just realised that me and Matt have really already started our WWOOFing journey it just took me a while to realise it. Matt and I have already made a swath of destruction and restoration in the garden. We are now really (mostly due to the extreme monsoon weather that we are currently having) getting the house back into shape. My Mum has got us starting with the hall (the house has three floors, so this is no mean feat), which has so far taken 3 days and we have only sanded, knotted and primed the woodwork and today after six hours of painting we have done the emulsion part. Only the ceiling and the gloss (x3 types, firstly the undercoat on the panelling, oil based gloss on the door frames and skirting and low VOC waterbased gloss on the rest!). Phew its seems a lot more to say than to do, however, I cannot wait to get back to it already even though it is 22:12 and I should probably be in bed due to the slight aches and lack of coordination due to being shattered! But before I go here are a few piccys from yesterday (there will be more in the morning when I can take some day time piccys of what we have been upto today).<br />
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We mostly painted the primer on the panelling in the hall but I missed the opportunity to photograph it, but it looks very much the same as the day before except the spots are a little less obvious. But I did get a few piccys from what I got upto in the garden while Matt went for a very long bike ride (I got a little restless).<br />
<div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO8ZU6MB-MPs61UM6ZhDgArPz727mmHEdv_5LuoqLrrL9vbLb3y_YYxHZ9bbFZkgswx2jEprUTkHGYMLDpII97Hz5S5qv0pAbR8UKApwxhIf5xIZvXR_z2HkElaAUwLA-nZ00N-_a6evI/s1600/R0014932.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO8ZU6MB-MPs61UM6ZhDgArPz727mmHEdv_5LuoqLrrL9vbLb3y_YYxHZ9bbFZkgswx2jEprUTkHGYMLDpII97Hz5S5qv0pAbR8UKApwxhIf5xIZvXR_z2HkElaAUwLA-nZ00N-_a6evI/s400/R0014932.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here is the part of the garden that we restored the other day, long ago in the days before Uni, my Mum and I cleared this little area, we then added some membrane over the bed and covered it in bark. Now over time this became over grown to the point where it was just a solid mass of weeds. So me and Matt restored it to its past glory (when we found the membrane was still intact, weeds had just grown over the top of it, and we then added some elderly bark from a bag we found in the garden. It now looks nice again and ready for more pots, the other pots contain two of our blueberry bushes that we wil be repotting soon.</div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Anyway, I better go now as sleep is beckoning me</div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Byeeee x x x x </div>sophie and matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12826316236077092933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8280376742066612292.post-92151870336597949932011-06-18T22:57:00.000+01:002011-06-18T22:57:50.762+01:00Degree!Hello,<br />
After many days of believing that my degree classification was a 2:2 (which was very good!) I was pleasantly surprised to be informed by a friend from Uni that actually I had a 2:1 instead so I am extra surprised and very happy! So I can officially completely forget about education for a while and go WWOOFing hehe! We have had a little change in our plans (one place changed their dates which turns out to really work for us) we are all but sorted to go! Just need to pack and we will be on our way!<br />
so bye for now x x x x xsophie and matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12826316236077092933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8280376742066612292.post-66161550849812247512011-06-17T20:48:00.000+01:002011-06-17T20:48:40.947+01:00too much rain pretty soon boo hoo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg56G_RS_bcmxv0MlDUllET9bk0K1dz-T1-IlGbERrAy-6s6ns4cgYVxeGbzdwltYM9LqfMqYAjkKxvQP6iaUeXot-JuqjepY-R4xpcgrqV_pCC0UmBlFmgrRp_UP67FkS_aOu48pB3_mE/s1600/R0014930.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg56G_RS_bcmxv0MlDUllET9bk0K1dz-T1-IlGbERrAy-6s6ns4cgYVxeGbzdwltYM9LqfMqYAjkKxvQP6iaUeXot-JuqjepY-R4xpcgrqV_pCC0UmBlFmgrRp_UP67FkS_aOu48pB3_mE/s400/R0014930.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">hello well its very rainy, my what a pain, my waiting in vain for dry weather. not sure you can see the rain on this photo but its their trust me nice view from our lounge area. as it has been raining today we have found other ways to entertain our selves one solution is plants vs zombies a simple but very addictive game that make time pass unnoticed. sophie is currently playing it talking about cob cannons and collecting sun and spud downs? she mentioned some thing called stinky so i took the hint and had another shower. then told me a huge wave of zombies are coming i could not find my cricket bat and panicked. my zombie apocalypse kit has gone. i have just moved in my stuff is all missing? aaagh....... ........................................turns out it was the game.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEOeH5WTG-uc_83egssIsm314LL3rZNHAVCzPdK4w7aDbTNXngoqrqJwZuFwvQJyfVcjo4zcG_U0N_oS-McUKt5VcBDW1NitvWTthbs5TxQn6r6Tv16-tcgXLG05itDypjFnms2Viu_Ts/s1600/plants-vs-zombies-Android.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEOeH5WTG-uc_83egssIsm314LL3rZNHAVCzPdK4w7aDbTNXngoqrqJwZuFwvQJyfVcjo4zcG_U0N_oS-McUKt5VcBDW1NitvWTthbs5TxQn6r6Tv16-tcgXLG05itDypjFnms2Viu_Ts/s400/plants-vs-zombies-Android.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">as the weather was poo we decided to paint the hall way, but were given tiny pots of paint and told make it last, so we decided to give the house a liver colour Dalmatian effect. as you can see below it suites the house well, it leads to the red zebra dining room and to the orange snake skin kitchen, all very in keeping with the general atmosphere with this victorian house. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">ps if you cant guess i don't take life serious. the paint is knotting solution after the last owner did a poor job of painting. and no it dose not tie your shoe laces as i hoped, i was very disappointed after i tried. but on the bright side i have sticky laces which i shall never trip over again.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJuWM8_qjvBNK_yjX7ebJx54LzsJ5mcS7qH0rBdjorNQcIF245XbL-MlwvHb9h1ccD1lJFpo2OEtNjNHMf8y3rDPf7yArK7tO8aIfxvu45kIMPjlGb1uABnqeKdRTsfutipjHe9zm8wfQ/s1600/R0014922.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJuWM8_qjvBNK_yjX7ebJx54LzsJ5mcS7qH0rBdjorNQcIF245XbL-MlwvHb9h1ccD1lJFpo2OEtNjNHMf8y3rDPf7yArK7tO8aIfxvu45kIMPjlGb1uABnqeKdRTsfutipjHe9zm8wfQ/s320/R0014922.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">wheres wally game can you spot me? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(no i'm not the cat)</div><br />
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</div> hear is some of my work before the weather turned. when i first walked on to this terrace i did not know there was a wall their. as it was VERY over grown since this photo was taken i have cleared another 2-3 meters. i may get another photo if i can get my climbing gear out, and i feel i can ascend it safely. the last trip claimed a brave fork, a orange, two gloves, and a small blue whale. they were buried unceremoniously on the slope. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9b_jH7Kt8zXRUdDuwqbk8c5BUfXLXgaZ4QE72FbjT3X3-6co0xQC74CHpNu2LzAjDeXrIaZN86g3nZluGwtqvksVsODiGiIdz5dERQXFYesDy9ZAAAnt0oz2HXbr3YBgWEnZcLA_cNoQ/s1600/2011_0508Various0010.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9b_jH7Kt8zXRUdDuwqbk8c5BUfXLXgaZ4QE72FbjT3X3-6co0xQC74CHpNu2LzAjDeXrIaZN86g3nZluGwtqvksVsODiGiIdz5dERQXFYesDy9ZAAAnt0oz2HXbr3YBgWEnZcLA_cNoQ/s320/2011_0508Various0010.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9b_jH7Kt8zXRUdDuwqbk8c5BUfXLXgaZ4QE72FbjT3X3-6co0xQC74CHpNu2LzAjDeXrIaZN86g3nZluGwtqvksVsODiGiIdz5dERQXFYesDy9ZAAAnt0oz2HXbr3YBgWEnZcLA_cNoQ/s1600/2011_0508Various0010.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>congratulation on reading this i was feeling very monty python when i wrote it. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">hope to be wwoofing soon as the monkeys tell me i may be suffering from cabin fever.</div>sophie and matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12826316236077092933noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8280376742066612292.post-13194250716766394972011-06-12T17:14:00.000+01:002011-06-12T17:14:24.305+01:00Luxembourg and piccys!Hehe, <br />
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we have been having great fun keeping an eye on who has been looking at our blog but also how many different countries these viewers are from. Although, recently (in the last two days) we have been surprised by just how many people from Luxembourg (32 different views) have been having a look. It's so exciting to see how many people actually look at our blog. If anyone wishes to say hi or comment on anything on the blog, please feel free. It would be lovely to hear from anyone wishing to know more about WWOOFing since by the end of August we will have been to two places already and on to our third, I cannot wait to get going hehe!<br />
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Anyway other than that here are some piccys from the last few weeks!<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI9fRn2KrhwderlT5Uv2_vaOepCWVyOPoEfh2n_sjzmvSji-xLIj4y5yuy88h_m55XddmsXPxWMJ3k9m0coQkRf98lIqNJemer3qaAbNYfHLnUgZj-sy01D-WSYd8Dbi3g983yc9N227E/s1600/June+2011+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI9fRn2KrhwderlT5Uv2_vaOepCWVyOPoEfh2n_sjzmvSji-xLIj4y5yuy88h_m55XddmsXPxWMJ3k9m0coQkRf98lIqNJemer3qaAbNYfHLnUgZj-sy01D-WSYd8Dbi3g983yc9N227E/s400/June+2011+004.JPG" t8="true" width="400" /></a></div><div align="center">Here are some of the wind turbines that have been going up in Devon recently, the council finally gave the go ahead and 30 odd will be up and running by September! Yay!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrzl0Zc6oWYWrXA0bnSdQCKmepIsqfLc8Ahdg0EGmDrYu1orHDGbo6MlO5QuTeCMGmoaOzPA9yyTgoMhsOJq-9ocwxwfy9J7m_fD2RoAgPl6aBz8jYd5AvgKerklwgV0PwfQRpgEdByBE/s1600/June+2011+021.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrzl0Zc6oWYWrXA0bnSdQCKmepIsqfLc8Ahdg0EGmDrYu1orHDGbo6MlO5QuTeCMGmoaOzPA9yyTgoMhsOJq-9ocwxwfy9J7m_fD2RoAgPl6aBz8jYd5AvgKerklwgV0PwfQRpgEdByBE/s400/June+2011+021.JPG" t8="true" width="400" /></a></div><div align="center">Here are the guys (Isaac, Kez and Matt) about to demolish the old chicken shed.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV5ZWx9qoh6YWktyoWjjcyTZRuAK5A0phvvtiUqJDbplUfYIZfOjXeoJTSDU5MeraklruxCqgKYpgkRO2db7aVhALaJdSaGHC7clb1oyiUN_EikdEXkcI51K92JbwcUa4-za9Zt3kfAvQ/s1600/June+2011+048.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV5ZWx9qoh6YWktyoWjjcyTZRuAK5A0phvvtiUqJDbplUfYIZfOjXeoJTSDU5MeraklruxCqgKYpgkRO2db7aVhALaJdSaGHC7clb1oyiUN_EikdEXkcI51K92JbwcUa4-za9Zt3kfAvQ/s400/June+2011+048.JPG" t8="true" width="400" /></a></div><div align="center">This is just a very silly picture of my cat, Dodger, doing what we call cat yoga, he does this kind of thing frequently and completely under his own steam.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJG87Oj9So-XLiHUQM1tjEnt1YQ8RGqVs9jyCTpzpaaUmj226G_fBoO7hfjI0pCcZ_PrYXZLLfQkEioKjq9FSNe1cYh2V3Eyh7nHImKoxASejX7sZqZE1LkBpt5fUpHP58MIu7vxc2piQ/s1600/June+2011+058.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJG87Oj9So-XLiHUQM1tjEnt1YQ8RGqVs9jyCTpzpaaUmj226G_fBoO7hfjI0pCcZ_PrYXZLLfQkEioKjq9FSNe1cYh2V3Eyh7nHImKoxASejX7sZqZE1LkBpt5fUpHP58MIu7vxc2piQ/s400/June+2011+058.JPG" t8="true" width="400" /></a></div><div align="center">Here is a piccy of the baby jackdaw, we reckon he was at least a week to a week and a half off leaving the nest properly as he has still lots of baby feathers and he can't yet reliably stand or move using his feet or eat by himself. However, having said that he is a fast learner and is starting to use his feet properly and is so inquisitive. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgncfJjd9UuDSU_Fg3mtlu945QcDF2OrxijPGq3yF5D15jQOFmkaPeKkYfgCFyObwpxBGug7LVIsufv-WQ7JcguVIw2c9FFzhjM6MqcffEJ5dr9zNC1n4Kabe0l2tETh5QnoSCJqTH2-LA/s1600/June+2011+060.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgncfJjd9UuDSU_Fg3mtlu945QcDF2OrxijPGq3yF5D15jQOFmkaPeKkYfgCFyObwpxBGug7LVIsufv-WQ7JcguVIw2c9FFzhjM6MqcffEJ5dr9zNC1n4Kabe0l2tETh5QnoSCJqTH2-LA/s400/June+2011+060.JPG" t8="true" width="400" /></a></div><div align="center">This is the quilt that I am making at the moment.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2vNFCTGri0nM3g2YE0GYFhSXVgr3j303an_APho-dH0rb8jY9iw7JGUjBdYQM9ZyoK3itIE3_VLg0o6MED-KxkVl9yM_IwyYrSQiK3McDaw98SYRux28UesvjEaZ_giIup57SEmfB0oM/s1600/june+2011+092.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2vNFCTGri0nM3g2YE0GYFhSXVgr3j303an_APho-dH0rb8jY9iw7JGUjBdYQM9ZyoK3itIE3_VLg0o6MED-KxkVl9yM_IwyYrSQiK3McDaw98SYRux28UesvjEaZ_giIup57SEmfB0oM/s1600/june+2011+092.JPG" t8="true" /></a></div><div align="center">Here is Dodger as always at the moment on our bed.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi55Uhs91kBqTg9ua8g2_vxVgg2aD7br-ZRrgv43DfNzRvcoLiofYL8aNylWJ5LDN89d2hSLF7TdsnP76yWt7iuWIob7jiU_zSKIUcQSgaSVCOTlsv30NWzZex7OGsNmFHedfI9hwRDqnI/s1600/june+2011+085.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi55Uhs91kBqTg9ua8g2_vxVgg2aD7br-ZRrgv43DfNzRvcoLiofYL8aNylWJ5LDN89d2hSLF7TdsnP76yWt7iuWIob7jiU_zSKIUcQSgaSVCOTlsv30NWzZex7OGsNmFHedfI9hwRDqnI/s400/june+2011+085.JPG" t8="true" width="400" /></a></div><div align="center">Our shed up, but due to the amount of rain its empty at the moment but it will soon be a home to many books, kitchen stuff and Matt's bikes (he has 4! which I am told is the bare minimum).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga8WyA-rS4mvoTlxhMUeqs36TmTZUsdZ7h4xN1DY1OhlJWPRqb2F69x4H0Warbvc0x8t9i5yc-odwxY5aU_Jps9XvE5MYH2nRnztlBreekWijOU4dY7AsyIy7T6pLVNkaZqW3PZKMwvjU/s1600/june+2011+087.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga8WyA-rS4mvoTlxhMUeqs36TmTZUsdZ7h4xN1DY1OhlJWPRqb2F69x4H0Warbvc0x8t9i5yc-odwxY5aU_Jps9XvE5MYH2nRnztlBreekWijOU4dY7AsyIy7T6pLVNkaZqW3PZKMwvjU/s640/june+2011+087.JPG" t8="true" width="425" /></a></div><div align="center">This the area that me and Matt are clearing ready to be partially paved and a new potted herb garden to go there when we can.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKVDS8qWzbyxA1B0xkhk_MfuBaDxo3yYSopXptjT7w3t5goMmx1MOXpylRnjN8NaKAmLuGsaQz-EwLRMjgY3qiOVXYnybUXBUfwEAXbCmZ5Z4L-8vRSEpdFmqNiv_HDZCOJXHnJ9smm34/s1600/IMG_6677.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKVDS8qWzbyxA1B0xkhk_MfuBaDxo3yYSopXptjT7w3t5goMmx1MOXpylRnjN8NaKAmLuGsaQz-EwLRMjgY3qiOVXYnybUXBUfwEAXbCmZ5Z4L-8vRSEpdFmqNiv_HDZCOJXHnJ9smm34/s400/IMG_6677.JPG" t8="true" width="400" /></a></div><div align="center">Woogo (AKA cookie) chilling up in the flat.</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center">Anyway, thats enough writing and piccys before I run out of room hehe</div><div align="center">Byeeeee x x x x</div><div align="center"><br />
</div>sophie and matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12826316236077092933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8280376742066612292.post-18081171160673375892011-06-11T22:17:00.000+01:002011-06-11T22:17:18.424+01:00Exams, leaving jobs and moving house!<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Phew it seems like so much to have done at once but we have done it! I have finally finished my exams with a huge sigh of relief and am now trying to fill my time with random bits of housework and helping out my family. Matt has left his job and with the help of Chris has transported all his stuff to Ilfracombe! It was one hell of a move, since the drive is incredibly steep and everything had to be lugged up the full length of the drive as well as up two flights of stairs! However, we have finally sorted most of the stuff into what can go and stuff to keep. The Matt and Dad (I have been banned from helping due to bossiness) are currently putting up a 6’ by 8’ shed to store our stuff while we are WWOOFing hehe! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I am currently working on a patchwork quilt that I started at Christmas, its eventually going to go on our bed but its not quite big enough yet and needs backing and stuffing. Me and my Mum have also been looking after a baby Jackdaw, it seems to have totally imprinted on my mum, she reckons as he has trouble using his legs he must have fallen from the nest. The parents were very protective but he was too young to regulate his temperature and was exhausted from lack of food. So we have put him in a cat carrier with my mum’s heat pad and she has been feeding him every hour and a half with cat food and water and he is fast perking up so far. We are having to be careful not to get to attached as he isn’t really out of the woods yet. But he is terribly sweet and completely unafraid of us and is very inquisitive. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Other than that all has been quite calm since the move, I am anxiously waiting for my results to come back on Wednesday. Since moving back home two of the four family cats have taken to sleeping in the two rooms we are staying in. Woogo (a tortie) is mostly found on the futon in the lounge area and Dodger can be found frequently on our bed. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Other than that, me and Matt have been helping clear the house of excess clutter and furniture for my parents, as my Mum is moving back from Winchester after having been there to do her MA in Creative writing. She is actually back, but my brothers are finishing their last few weeks at college and then we will bring them back in two weeks (and a whole 3 bed house worth of furniture). Me and Matt have also been tidying up the garden trying to get it back from the huge weeds that are trying to take over the garden while my mum has been away. The herb part of the garden is our main focus at the moment but will also be trying to weed the drive as it is smaller due to the weeds around the edges. I shall hopefully be putting some piccys of our progress tomorrow hehe!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Bye bye for now, Soph x x x <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>sophie and matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12826316236077092933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8280376742066612292.post-32711331945688966722011-05-15T14:34:00.000+01:002011-05-15T14:34:56.292+01:00resignation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG7-kfUbRj5s6bLJLAOdrDekISCkUqxpIUVgLAETerKbWXG3IQy_OR_RfJ-OHKSgil8tjZiHtQIZql2D7_HG9-x8Lfvs-lh0EIxucfMUjQpXAPbjVEwhJ_KtOt4lvyk2eYx_tVHrEFviU/s1600/monkey-ninja-7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG7-kfUbRj5s6bLJLAOdrDekISCkUqxpIUVgLAETerKbWXG3IQy_OR_RfJ-OHKSgil8tjZiHtQIZql2D7_HG9-x8Lfvs-lh0EIxucfMUjQpXAPbjVEwhJ_KtOt4lvyk2eYx_tVHrEFviU/s400/monkey-ninja-7.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">hello thought any one out there may want a giggle so i have included my resignation on this blog for all to read i hope you enjoy it </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Dear sir/madam</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">After an appropriate period of deliberation, I have come to the decision to tender my resignation from you, effective. 01-06-11</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Please know that I still maintain a high level of respect for you as a manager and colleague, and I thank you sincerely for the support and assistance you have offered me in each of those roles. I have been proud to work for you over the past six years; it has been a journey that has provided me with an unparalleled foundation to move forward to new and exciting opportunities.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> As such, I have decided to leave and become a professional ninja. It has always been a dream of mine to leave the rat race and become a professional ninja to live the life of a ninja swooping from rooftop to rooftop dispatching my enemies as I wish. I wish to take to pursuing fortune, fame, and hair-raising adventure.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">As a ninja I will take my orders from no one, surprising people as I sneak in and out of rooms in my pajamas. I shall no longer walk, the ground will simply move under me. I shall no longer swim; the water will part around me. I shall be forever waiting to dispatch my enemies never sleeping just waiting. I shall make onions cry as I cut them with speed and grace. I will play minesweeper with real mines. I shall learn to speak wing dings, and know the next song on my iPod as I use shuffle. As a ninja I will not have to worry about trifling matters like bullets they will dodge me. The most and foremost skill I shall learn will be to use the 1,242 object in a room to kill someone including the room its self.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">My path may not be filled with the usual comforts and technological marvels that you provide, but I shall nonetheless move forward to carve a name for myself in the books of bold insurgency and death-defying derring-do. Once I have a keen blade at my hip, I believe I will find my true calling.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Please note that I am currently accepting applications for assistant ninja, if you are at all interested in applying. I will provide a full medical and dental plan, which will offer immediate coverage of all normal medical problems other than seppuku and the occasional bout of stabbing.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Sincerely matt</span></div>sophie and matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12826316236077092933noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8280376742066612292.post-91497781703686011832011-05-07T19:13:00.000+01:002011-05-07T19:13:32.588+01:00bye bye salisburyhello as i'm going to move in with Sophie in devon, i thought i might as well do a touristy thing and take some photos of salisbury and its cathedral. so i can try to remember what is looks like, ill try to put a few others up later in the week, i need to go out and take some when market day is not on as it will be less busy.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">salisbury cathedral</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">no one seams to like taking photos of the side of the cathedral which has scaffold on it but it will only be there for a few years so after that no one will remember it looking like this </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">in the middle there is a tiny pin prick thats the cathedral. salisbury is not always green and yellow it has other colours ... i think</td></tr>
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</tbody></table> well thats a few photos i hope i can get more photos of some more places, while wwoofing in july to dec. thought ide show people a little of where i come from i hope Sophie dose the same from exeter and ilfracombe<br />
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<div>i got bored today after work so i remembered i'm going wwoofing and its not all about digging planting so i made bread which is always a little fun. and just to show im not just a one horse show<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">jam jam jam, yummy yummy yummy, not in my little tummy. </td></tr>
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ps i don't own a bread maker this is all my own work by hand. <br />
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