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18 days till we move!

With only 18 days until we leave South Wales and head for a new life in our new homestead, we are going through so many emotions.  We range from mega excited through to terrified.  

We are not just moving within the same area, but to a completely different country (so the Scots keep on reminding the rest of the UK).  We will be settling down on a small, remote island in Orkney, where the North Sea meets the North Atlantic ocean, great for someone who loves fishing and for putting lobster, crabs and a wide range of fish on the dinner table. 

2.5 acres of arable land is by far more than we have ever had, and enough for us to grow enough meat, wheat and crops to feed us - yet the scale of the operation is rather daunting! We are not city folks who will go and play at being farmers, nor have we been in responsible for 1 hectare before.  

The move has almost caught us by surprise - we have been planning, researching and organizing this for so long - yet the date of completion always seemed to move further away from us for one reason or another, then we had a realization that it was only 3 weeks away! 

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    • About Us >
      • First Time Pregnant
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  • Wine List & Recipes
    • Banana Wine Made Simple
    • Blaand
    • Blackberry Mead
    • Christmas Pudding Wine!
    • Chocolate Wine
    • Easy Rhubarb Wine
    • Gorse Flower Wine
    • Gutsy Ginger Wine
    • Liquorice Wine
    • Mead Making Made Simple
    • Melon Wine
    • Mint Wine Recipe
    • Mushroom Wine
    • Nasturtium Leaf Wine
    • Nettle and Mint Wine
    • No Boil Rhubarb Wine
    • Orange Wine
    • Lemon and Ginger Mead
    • Pear Wine
    • Pine Needle Wine
    • Pumpkin Wine
    • Rose Hip Leaf Wine
    • Red Kidney Bean Wine!
    • Rose Petal Wine
    • Rhubarb and Apple Wine
    • Seaweed Wine
    • Spiced banana wine
    • Sticky Toffee Pudding Wine
    • Turnip and Red Cabbage Wine
    • Wine Making 101
    • What is a country wine?
    • ​Can I use bread yeast to make wine?