life, by me

Sunday, November 20, 2011 | Posted by Hazel

So, it's been over a month since I last wrote a blog. Things have been upping the ante up here in Yorkshire. The barns have roofs on, the yurt bases are forming, and the shack team have just arrived back to continue building the rest of the shacks.

My part time jobs have evolved again slightly...I still work at the White Swan, but just a couple of evenings a week, and 2 days a week I do cleaning for some people in nearby villages, certainly adds a bit of variety to my week anyway...

You know you're rural when this is what you are greeted with on the road...

I've had a few visitors, my sisters, Anna, Meryll and Leah came to visit for a weekend in half term...

And a few friends from Lincoln, Christine, Joy, Paul, Fin and Ruth have also been to stay at the farm.

The fog has set in. Today you can barely see a few feet in front of you, very atmospheric, but I prefer being sat inside when it is like this!

We had our first potential wedding couple look round the site last week. It's hard to say whether they will book, they at least had imagination to look beyond the mud swamp across the current landscape. It was definitely good practice for myself and Beth and quite reassuring to see all our plans and ideas actually make sense (or seemed to) to people who are looking at our venue as a place to have their wedding!

On Bonfire night we piled up all our building scraps and a few donations from some locals, and had a big fire with some of the builders working on the project and local people which was fun, I love fire.

This week we also ordered wood burners for the shacks and yurts, so our guests can stay warm when it's cold outside. A shipping container arrived on Friday for us to store stuff in, we didn't quite get it in the designated place due to the large amount of mud that had been churned up by the tractors on site, that's tomorrow's job...attempting to shift a 4 tonne steel container with a telehandler and a tractor. Fun times.

P.S. In case you have forgotten, it's my birthday in a months time.

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