30th October 2012-13th January 2013

We sold our previous house in August and almost immediately saw Ty Hen Cottage, realised it was ideal for us and after a little negotiation the sale was agreed and we moved here amid much excitement. We had been living in an ex local authority house with one of the best views on Anglesey and reasonably sized gardens where we had a greenhouse, cold frames, chickens, vegetables, soft fruit and lots of flowers but we had outgrown the space and fancied the challenge of trying to grow more of our own produce, keep more poultry and somewhere to keep our bees (the hives are kept elsewhere as we were too close to our neighbours thoroughfare!).

So we now have a smaller house but we have a kitchen garden, flower garden, outbuildings and a paddock with a myriad of sheds! The first few months have passed very quickly and a quick run through will suffice as this blog will be my diary of growing stuff really and there hasn't been too much of that going on apart from tending everything I brought with me and sowing the sweet peas a couple of days after we moved in.

So, 2 months in we have extended the raised beds in the kitchen garden, removed van loads of unwanted items from the field, renovated a chicken house complete with automatic door on a timer (luxury!), learned a bit about cooking on a wood burning Rayburn, killed an enormous number of rats, acquired two kittens, started work on the track to our house, decorating, bookshelves and major hedge cutting and now it all feels like we are moving forward with our exciting project. I shall get the propagator set up  soon and begin the seeds!