7th blog for the competition.
My mother who is 95 has 14 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren, some of whom have linked up here this week. We didn’t feel too sad that the pig field was empty as the garden was full of children. The still green lawn leading to the animal fields changed […]

6th blog for the competition.Easter weekend began with decorating the church on Saturday morning. We have a flower team of 22, and we each choose different parts of the church to decorate for the festivals of Easter, Harvest and Christmas. At Easter the children make a garden on the floor of the north […]

5th blog for the competition.

There are callers every day at Applefield. We have helpers that come for Alexandra and Lizzie, then there are all the usual deliveries that come to our gate – as well as the postman, we’re lucky to also have a milkman, newspaper man, helpful dustmen, oxygen deliveries for Alexandra and […]

4th blog for competition.
 
We woke to an amazingly clear, sunny morning at Applefield and the sun has shone all day.  Lizzie said “spring makes me sad, because I can’t stop it going quickly and it’s already the fourth month of the year going by.”  I was about to say something along the same lines, that […]

3rd blog for the competition.
The start of the Easter holidays has always seemed surreal for its uplifting feeling of freedom, bright colours and fresh air and this good feeling has come in several ways for us all here at Applefield today. Dan (husband) mowed the lawns, so we had that delicious grassy smell again; […]

Here are the links to some photos from George & Jenny’s visit:
http://jennyhong.com/200703

http://jennyhong.com/200703/langdons.html

http://jennyhong.com/200703hongkong/ - when they arrived back.  And there are some from their latest visit to HK at www.jennyhong.com 

2nd blog for competition.
Just when we had all moved outside and opened all the doors, a biting east wind raced across our field and made the doors bang, and papers blow about, so we’re back indoors – though going in and out to various events in the village.  Before the school broke up we went […]

Life at Applefield is entering a blog competition in Country Living Magazine.  Here is the first entry written by Mummy.

We started March with our smallholding in winter, its colours predominantly brown, grey and green with thick coated ponies, and chickens fluffed up to protect them from the sea winds that funnel through the farmyard.  Our […]

George and Jenny will be in England from Friday 9th February (evening) to Thursday 1st March.

Our 4 Middle White pigs were taken away last Sunday, and now we have lots more pork in the freezer!  We now have 8 new Gloucester Old Spot weaners who are about Holly’s size.  It’s all very appropriate as 2007 is the Chinese Year of the Pig!  We kept them shut inside their barn for […]