New Morning, New Perspective

dewy asparagus

I’m trying to move on from my whining session yesterday. I can only apologise profusely -and thank you to those that commented. Without sounding like a complete attention seeker, it really does spur me on.

So I managed to wake up in a bit more of a reflective mood this morning, the weather definitely helped in that regard. After letting the chickens out at just gone 6am, I pottered around with the camera in my hand. It was dewy and there was a subtle hint of Autumn-ness in the air. I don’t think we’re completely done with summer yet, I have a feeling it’s going to make one more big concerted effort to make a comeback. Watch this space.

morning at the smallest smallholding

I’ve decided to tie up all the loose ends with work today and this weekend. I’m going to tidy my working area, tackle the bits and pieces that have been hanging over me (dull, mundane things like the ever-growing pile of washing, clearing out the old rubble I’d pulled up earlier in the year from my new big veg plot etc.) and start next week with a firm idea of what I want to achieve, and how I’m going to go about doing it.

My work is mostly writing search engine optimised website copy – this blog isn’t my best work, seeing as I have to frequently hit the edit button and tidy up spelling mistakes and typos, as I tend to write as it pours out of my mind. Hence the usual jumbled mess. But my ‘work’ is much more structured – it tends to leer towards informative copy rather than creative. I would love to steer myself more into a features writing so I have to set myself a plan of how I’m going to achieve that.

It also helps that Rich and I have been working outside a lot today and reshuffling things. It helps me visualise how I’m going to take things to the next level, how to work and improve on what we have. So yes, moany moans are over! Onwards and upwards.

Smallest Smallholding on Farm Blogs

Farmblogs

Ian at Farm Blogs From Around the World recently featured the Smallest Smallholding:-

http://farmblogs.blogspot.com/2008/08/smallest-smallholding-england.html

The idea is (in Ian’s own words): “At Farm Blogs I am trying to gather in one place the very best of global blogging about farms and farming... My posts are made up of the blog recommendations from farm bloggers and I also post regular stories about world farming.

All blogs have been recommended to me by other bloggers or identified by me during my occassional browsing... I have a pretty broad definition of farming – if you’re producing food, you’re a farmer, to my mind at least. So blogs range from ranches to part-time smallholders, and resources for them.

Once recommended, I add them to the blogroll and then contact the bloggers asking them to send me a few words about their farm/small-holding and their blog and, critically, to recommend their favourite farm/farming blogs.

And so it goes and grows.”

You can visit Farm Blogs From Around the World at http://farmblogs.blogspot.com