We are loving the head holder so we can shear them standing up (them not us - although we do think about making a bench for them to stand on one day). The sheep much prefer it this way too - it seems they didn’t read the ‘How to be a sheep’ handbook where it mentions going floppy when lying on your back…
Shearing a bit later than usual this year, partially due to the work on the house and partially because the cool wet weather has taken away the urgency…
So much work!
We need to rerender the front wall now the new windows are in (it is cement and doesn’t breath). To do that we need to take up the old path, so we are replacing it with a bit of a better one with a little patio in it for some outside lounge chairs and umbrella.
Will be fab when done, but painful now!
I just bought a breadmaker, because although I enjoy making bread I hardly ever manage to fit it in around the house building schedule, or when I try to I fail to make it back in time for the next step and it goes wrong…
190ml warm water (warm enough to warm the milk to room temp) + 60ml milk
(or 240ml water + 4tsp powdered milk)
1.5tsp salt
1.5tsp sugar
25g butter
400g bread flour
1.25tsp yeast
Program 1 (though I did 3 by mistake!)
Browning 1 if you want to use in sandwich maker
Weight 500g
With people coming to render the front wall with lime (it has cement based render at the moment which doesn’t breath and also it is a mess with the new windows), we need to add an outside tap so they can get water.
It took a bit more excavation than we had hoped to find the pipe!
I grow veg far more than flowers, because you can eat them, plus I think they are easier!
Some friends gave us some flowers from their garden and they are amazing, food for thought!
It always looks it’s neatest at this time of year, then it gets horrifically overgrown with some parched bits as the weather gets too hot to do so much!
