It has been a busy weekend and I have to admit I’m pretty tired. If I had got any notions about judging a competition in front of over a thousand people or organising a blog awards, I was brought back to earth with a bump anyway today as Brian needed me in the loader to lower him up and down when he was painting a shed. The glamour!
The [...]
I’ve just realised it’s about time I provided an update on the book – just in case people were wondering 🙂 ?All is going to schedule. I’m still editing and am glad I have a deadline soon or I could edit for ever and ever. ?The front cover is almost ready and the illustrator is also working on fun black and white illustrations for the interior too. I’m calling to chat to the printers in more detail on Friday and [...]
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 [...]
Well, we did it – thank you. ?A huge community got behind me and helped to make my crowdfunding project a success. It was about 11:30pm last night and the pledges were coming in steadily, it was moving from 6% to 5% and down to 2% and then there was ?82 left, about 1.35%. So many people were tweeting me and messaging me and it seemed like there were so many of us refreshing the page on ?Fundit.
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