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Title: So, What did you get for Christmas ?
Post by: Rupert the bear on December 25, 2017, 04:22:06 pm
I got a new walking stick with a wide bottom and a built in torch, how about you ?
Title: Re: So, What did you get for Christmas ?
Post by: Anke on December 25, 2017, 04:36:29 pm

60 paving slabs, plus some sharp sand and concrete to build a proper pathway in my Keder greenhouse (present from last year)..... I am easy to please!

Title: Re: So, What did you get for Christmas ?
Post by: alang on December 25, 2017, 04:42:27 pm
Tools and machinery for the smallholder book by John Bezzant. Very good read so far. Learning about compact tractors.

It's my birthday soon and i'm getting the Gold Cockrel book about Fencing  :excited:
Title: Re: So, What did you get for Christmas ?
Post by: cans on December 25, 2017, 04:51:31 pm
I got a new (fancy) cheese grater, much to the horror of OHs workmates..  :roflanim:
I needed a new one, so why not  ;D
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Post by: Sbom on December 25, 2017, 09:22:35 pm
A microscope so I can start doing fec’s  ;D
Title: Re: So, What did you get for Christmas ?
Post by: Buttermilk on December 25, 2017, 09:51:55 pm
An IOU for a generator in the next Machine Mart 20% off event.  The last of the romantics.  He did take me out for a chinese lunch today though.
Title: Re: So, What did you get for Christmas ?
Post by: Fleecewife on December 25, 2017, 10:09:25 pm
A pruning saw from my grandchildren  :tree: :tree: :tree:   Don't think they're offering to come and help though  :roflanim:
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Post by: Womble on December 26, 2017, 10:13:25 am
Two roll-on deodorants and a four pack of Heinz tomato soup!  ;D
Title: Re: So, What did you get for Christmas ?
Post by: doganjo on December 26, 2017, 10:21:45 am
Odour free, dog proof, covered cat litter box;Cairn no mhor elderberry presse; Extendable so I don't have to bend pooper scooper; Electric propagator; Leather gloes to replace the ones eaten by Allez.   :innocent: And now I need replacemnt apple trees as some small deer have been in overnight and chewed the bark off threee mature ones.  Good job my birthday is on Saturday.
Title: Re: So, What did you get for Christmas ?
Post by: pharnorth on December 26, 2017, 12:12:41 pm
Andrew James meat slicer. Properly sliced home done air dried ham yesterday. Proper sliced home produced bacon this morning. 
Title: Re: So, What did you get for Christmas ?
Post by: harmony on December 26, 2017, 05:39:29 pm
Just a wide bottom with no stick and torch - from eating too much! :yum:
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Post by: devonlady on December 26, 2017, 07:36:00 pm
A dear daughter-in-law who came and cooked Jim, Jim's Ma and I a delicious Christmas lunch :)
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Post by: Terry T on December 26, 2017, 08:24:00 pm
Friends round to share a delicious goose and a pair of chainsaw boots from my lovely husband. Perfect...
Title: Re: So, What did you get for Christmas ?
Post by: Black Sheep on December 26, 2017, 10:04:29 pm
Our first half dozen ewes  :sheep: :sheep: :sheep: :sheep: :sheep: :sheep: ;D
Title: Re: So, What did you get for Christmas ?
Post by: Rupert the bear on December 26, 2017, 11:19:55 pm
Friends round to share a delicious goose and a pair of chainsaw boots from my lovely husband. Perfect...

How are you sharing the chainsaw boots ?
Title: Re: So, What did you get for Christmas ?
Post by: Buttermilk on December 27, 2017, 07:07:53 am
Friends round to share a delicious goose and a pair of chainsaw boots from my lovely husband. Perfect...

How are you sharing the chainsaw boots ?

Well boiled?
Title: Re: So, What did you get for Christmas ?
Post by: Goatherd on December 27, 2017, 08:51:43 am
 

     Scaffold Tower and a Rechargeable work light :excited:
Title: Re: So, What did you get for Christmas ?
Post by: Perris on December 28, 2017, 08:58:39 am
The Victorian Farm (book of the TV series); very interesting - and on my list thanks to someone's post here about The Edwardian Farm on the TV a few weeks back.
Title: Re: So, What did you get for Christmas ?
Post by: Penninehillbilly on December 28, 2017, 11:14:54 am
Our first half dozen ewes  :sheep: :sheep: :sheep: :sheep: :sheep: :sheep: ;D
Well, they would have to be black wouldn't they LOL
Title: Re: So, What did you get for Christmas ?
Post by: Penninehillbilly on December 28, 2017, 11:20:24 am
I suppose I could say a house, had a bit in the bank from wages I don't use apart from council tax, because I never go anywhere, OH loaned (gave?), quite a bit to top up,
Auction buy, haven't got the keys yet, needs work, but will (hopefully) be renting it out towards a pension.
Title: Re: So, What did you get for Christmas ?
Post by: SallyintNorth on December 28, 2017, 10:49:38 pm
A Woollee Winder for my Ashford e spinner, so I can really hammer out some yarn without very much effort at all.  (I still love, and use, my Timbertops Leicester and other conventional - and not-so-conventional - treadle wheels, but sometimes the flesh is weak whilst I still want to make yarn.). These things aren't cheap (nor was the 2nd hand e spinner), so it's both birthday and Chrimble from parents and sis, plus a top-up from myself.  I'm hoping I will become so productive that I'll have enough handspun for some meaningful weaving :)

Title: Re: So, What did you get for Christmas ?
Post by: harmony on December 29, 2017, 07:20:04 am
Aren't we a practical but happy lot! I actually got a working collie so I can work off the wide bottom.

Title: Re: So, What did you get for Christmas ?
Post by: Lesley Silvester on December 29, 2017, 01:49:07 pm
Goat milk soap and body lotion which was bought in Fuertoventura. Very appropriate.
Title: Re: So, What did you get for Christmas ?
Post by: alang on December 31, 2017, 01:53:14 pm
Well as mentioned above before, i got the Gold Cockerel book about fencing for my birthday. Wow! Certainly a in-depth read. Going to take a read or two to get my head around it all. Well worth it for a newbie to smallholding  like myself