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Our New Life in the Country: And I'm Off ..... The Trelawnyd Flower Show

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Recipes I Use Regularly. Live Below the Line 2015. Sunday, 9 August 2015. And I'm Off . The Trelawnyd Flower Show. There's a lot of photos on today post, you might want to make yourself a cup of coffee, or pull up a carrot to nibble! Firstly though, thank you for all the comments on yesterday's post, it would seem we are all on the same wavelength. Now to the Trelawnyd Show . Now my entries . This was nice to read on Friday night while I was busy displaying everything, with a bit of help from John who su...

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Our New Life in the Country: Live Below the Line 2015

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Recipes I Use Regularly. Live Below the Line 2015. Live Below the Line 2015. My One Stop Shop - Asda. Our own Free Range Eggs at cost price 48p per half dozen. Sparkling Water (from the cupboard) which cost me 17p. Total Spend £4.83. 17p over to spend on salt, pepper etc from my freebie stash tin. Coffee, my mainstay of the week, coffee at 1p a cup. Four slices of toast and quarter of jar of peanut butter = 18p. Stew made with bargain 20p stew pack and 1 slice toast = 8p. Total for the day - 49p. About 5...

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Our New Life in the Country: Blog Header Photographs

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Recipes I Use Regularly. Live Below the Line 2015. Previous Header Photographs - for Posterity. The view taken from in front of the new garage - Panoramic. The View from the Front Door - Panoramic. January until October 2015. Chicken through the Window. More Eggs - I like Eggs :-). 24 October 2014 at 03:28. Where do you live? 25 October 2014 at 10:54. North Wales, about 20 minutes inland from Llandudno. 27 October 2014 at 19:16. And what a lovely view too x. 6 December 2014 at 08:50. 8 April 2015 at 13:48.

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Our New Life in the Country: March 2015

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Recipes I Use Regularly. Live Below the Line 2015. Tuesday, 31 March 2015. Chickens, Eggs . and my most unusual Giveaway Ever. The birds are building up to being in full lay now, I actually have a couple of dozen eggs in the fridge, the first time this year. (Yes, Mum I'll bring you some tomorrow.) For once supply is keeping up with demand and it feels good. For what it was :-). Poppy and Caldwell II seen together in this photo are parents-to-be. Little Poppy laid a clutch of twelve eggs over the cou...

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Our New Life in the Country: I'm the Daddy

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Recipes I Use Regularly. Live Below the Line 2015. Sunday, 2 August 2015. Caldwell, or to give his his full title Caldwell II, thinks he's the daddy . The daddy to these two little bundles of feather and fluff! Of course he's not, and biologically Mother Goose is not their Mum, but then parenting is just as confusing with chickens as it sometimes is with us humans :-). Been and it's lovely to see. He offers them tasty tit bits and sits by them if Mum has wandered off and temporarily abandoned them. It's ...

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Our New Life in the Country: Building Work, Spinach and Shows .....

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Recipes I Use Regularly. Live Below the Line 2015. Tuesday, 11 August 2015. Building Work, Spinach and Shows . Lots and lots of hard work. AND the walls are almost up on the garage and workshop, the windows are ordered and even the white masonry paint for the inside has been bought. Today has seen us crawling with builders and brickies, all doing their own thing and needing regularly watering with cups of tea, coffee and cold drinks. but it's nice to see things finally coming together. DC I no longer gro...

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Our New Life in the Country: Garlic Crop .... and An Early Start

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Recipes I Use Regularly. Live Below the Line 2015. Friday, 7 August 2015. Garlic Crop . and An Early Start. I've got the Garlic in now, after sitting it in the sun, whenever the sun was out and on top of the Aga occasionally when it wasn't, it has dried out quite nicely although it's still looks a smaller than expected crop. Yesterday saw me busy digging up potatoes, I was hoping for a few matching ones ready to enter into the Trelawnyd Flower Show on Saturday . and do you know I think I might have t...

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Our New Life in the Country: Recipes I Use Regularly

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Recipes I Use Regularly. Live Below the Line 2015. Recipes I Use Regularly. Simply rub in the butter/margarine into the flour/salt until it looks like breadcrumbs and then stir in the sugar. Pour in enough milk/buttermilk or similar to make it into a reasonably firm dough and either roll out briefly or just pat into shape. A way of making this even cheaper is to add a tablespoon of dried milk powder to the dry mix and then you can make your scones up with water instead of milk. Chop all the veggies and f...

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Our New Life in the Country: Shucks .... and Possibilities

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Recipes I Use Regularly. Live Below the Line 2015. Monday, 10 August 2015. Shucks . and Possibilities. In the comments on yesterday's blog post Barbara asked ' . what was the judging criteria for the hard boiled egg? Mine wasn't quite there, once it was cut open by the judge, the yolk was almost at the bottom of the egg . I've a thought on how to rectify that for next year :-). Then later on this morning these arrived . my next set of Tesco money off coupons. I noticed the date on using them up b...I hav...

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Our New Life in the Country: August 2015

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Recipes I Use Regularly. Live Below the Line 2015. Monday, 31 August 2015. Kale for the Freezer. It was the turn of the Kale plants in the polytunnel to be stripped of almost. All of their leaves yesterday. Once again I set up my little production line of wash, drain, cook, drain, plunge into iced water, drain and then squeeze out as much excess water as possible. Once drained, and spun in the salad spinner I laid all the leaves on a clean tea towel and rolled it up tightly. I might have a go at some Kal...