A little bit about me

Hello, I'm Laura

I'm married to the lovely Lloyd who is amazing and gorgeous!
We have three  children dogs, Bob, Brodie and Tallulah. We used to live in Glasgow, Scotland but I'm originally from Aberdeen and Lloyd is from Yorkshire.

I've been writing this blog for ages! Or... since we decided to begin the immigration journey from a townhouse with no garden in the middle of Glasgow, to a 24 acre farm, in Northland, in the middle of...well nowhere, New Zealand.

 I came to New Zealand 'blind'. I knew nothing about the place other than it looked pretty and was on the other side of the world. I also knew nothing about gardening, I'd never actually had a garden before!

But thankfully we've found a wee slice of paradise.

This is my diary of sorts.

There's a lot about our garden and the farm as this is what I do with myself. You could say it's my 'unpaid' job!

We have a large veggie garden which is completely organic, so we're pretty much self sufficient there.

There's loads about our animals, a bit of sewing, making things, what we get up to on a daily basis, a few recipes chucked in for good measure ( I'm a total idiot in the kitchen, I don't enjoy cooking savoury food and I'm not good at it,  but I do, however, adore baking! The recipes I post are so simple that anyone could do them!), some photos,  and basically just us, trying to lead a more simple life. ( with the occasional, monumental splurge!)

What do I like? Lloyd and our dogs, my family, our friends. Cheese! any cheese really, rowies (I googled them for you) the spa in the dark looking at stars.  Anything water related, swimming in the sea,  swimming in a pool, scuba diving and paddling.
Sewing, growing veggies and playing with my lovely chickens, and playing roller derby! ( yes, really!)

To earn a crust,  I have a cottage that we rent out for holidays and I take photos. Usually of things that don't move! But occasionally I can be persuaded to include some people!

Lloyd thinks my mum made up lots of words and taught them to me when I was little but it's not true, they're real, they're Doric and they just sound like they could have been made up.

I used to be a teacher. For 12 years I taught children with special needs. Nine years were spent with children who had emotional and behavioural difficulties and my last 3 years were working with children in an intensive support unit, some of whom had severe autism. Even something you love dearly has the power to break you, just a little bit. So now I'm a farmer and am probably still trying to fix that wee, broken bit!

I dislike shopping

UPDATE! As of March 2015 we have sold the farm and moved to the coast! You can read a bit about what we've done so far to the new house . I'm writing this in April, so we still have the outside work to do!

the lovely Lloyd 

♥

Our babies

 Brodie

Tallulah ( loopy Lulah)

Bob, my forever best doggy pal.

"hello"

 and thanks for dropping by.

©all photographs are mine unless stated otherwise.