Hello - can I introduce myself as I'm new
I am mother to two small children and part-time children's physiotherapist, living in rural Hampshire within the South Downs National Park with an acre of land to play with. Last year, when my youngest was waking at 4am every day, I developed an inability to get back to sleep, so put the insomnia to good use and got out in our (much neglected) paddock and created a substantial veg patch, which was pretty productive last year, considering I had absolutely no idea what I was doing with veg growing
From this, I've developed a passionate (some would say obsessional) love of our little patch of land and dream of creating a lovely space that we can enjoy as a family and hopefully instil a love of the outdoors and appreciation of land, animals and food in our children. I planted an orchard in half of the paddock just before Christmas and am just waiting for someone to come and fence it. Then the fun starts and I have just paid a deposit on 3 pedigree ouessant sheep, 2 of whom are in lamb
from whom I plan to breed and create our own little multicoloured friendly flock! I have dreams of chickens, pigs and more from our little plot and am not afraid of hard work, adverse weather and early starts. Of course, I'm sure like so many people my ultimate dream would be to find something on our plot that would make me enough money to give up the day job, but I appreciate this rarely happens…. Am married to a singing and organ-playing solicitor, who loves animals and country living, but is not very practical and doesn't get his hands dirty much
Anyway, that's enough about me. Thanks for reading if you got to the end!
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