The next two weeks are going to be busy. I’m working away on the book and ended up putting in quite a few hours into the blog awards last week. The short lists were announced late on Friday night and we’ll be sending out forms to judges this week, all set to judge the short listed blogs.
Have you heard of B?thar? ?It’s an Irish charity that helps impoverished farmers in countries such as Rwanda and Uganda. Coming up to Christmas, they encourage people to buy other people gifts such as a B?thar set of bees or a goat or some chickens, in other words, you can give your brother a set of bees [...]
It was our 21st wedding anniversary recently. I’m almost getting embarrassed that we’ve been married for so long, it makes me feel very old even though I was almost a child bride!!
This tractor was delivered on our wedding anniversary in 2005!!
We’ve been farming now for 11 years, for the ten years before that – Brian [...]
We were away for a couple of days when I received a voice message asking me would I like to judge an upcoming ‘The Farmer wants a Wife’ competition in Northern Ireland on 11th October. My first reaction was that it sounds like really good craic and then I was wondering if I’d be able to manage it with the blog awards event the following evening. Once I found out more, I agreed to do it and I’m really looking [...]
We were thinking of going to the Tullamore Show last Sunday and when we won tickets from Agriland, that decided it. We tend to go to it every 2 or 3 years, it is one of the biggest agricultural shows in the country and this year was no exception as it drew in over 60,000 people.
The weather was fine, the cancelled event of 2009 was a distant memory as people milled there wearing ordinary runners and shoes with [...]
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