Gardening time.Yahhhhh

Well we got out on our new garden today and did some tree pruning and also pruned some bushes.

It seems we have inherited a few trees including apple,plum,acer and hawthorn amongst others.

Bulbs are starting to show through,As Forrest Gump would say its like a box of chocolates ''you never know what your going to get'',its going to be interesting seeing what comes up.

I was a little bit gutted as I was clearing a hawthorn I accidentally lopped a small cherry tree which I will have to replace.
Ill also be planting a Silver Birch tree as this is one of my favourite trees,Ill soon have my very own littl wood.

I also dug up five rose bushes as Im not keen on them.

Its been really nice to get out on the garden and start getting it how we want it to look.

Heres some photos of the garden.

Pruning the apple tree.

Mrs Sticks pruning a bush.

Me taking a breather and relaxing in my DD hammock..

My old street sign has a new home.

This guy flew over.

The sun set was nice this evening.

A slight title change for my blog.

Some of you may have noticed a change in the title of my blog.
Ive added the home and hearth part because ill be doing work on my home and my garden this year and want to post the results here on my blog so thought a title change was needed.

I will still be adding post on bushcraft and my travels so I hope you all keep on coming over and checking my blog out from time to time.

I also have a few projects like cider making from my own apples from the tree in my garden and setting up a veggie patch.

Oak floor finished.

Well we have finished laying our oak floor.

It was hard going laying this floor after a hard days work in the foundry but well worth the effort,it took four evenings to do and now we are working on fitting the oak edgings which will finish it off nicely.

I also have to fit the door devides which will also be done in oak.

Heres some pics of how it looks so far.

Here you can see the edging that I have done.

My new home.

Well I thought Id post some pics of my new home.

Its kinda tardis like as it looks small from the outside but the rooms are as big as the ones in my old house and the kitchen is much bigger.

The garden is also bigger,ill be planting a veggie garden down the left hand side when i get time.

The land that the Bungalow is on used to be an orchard and I have one of the original apple trees,I feel the need to buy an apple press so i can make some home made scrumpy.

There is also a couple of small plum trees.

We have a small conservatory which is nice.

A few shots of the kitchen.

we had to get a new cooker so I made sure we got one with a griddle for man cooking.

The lounge looks out onto the back garden so I can watch the wildlife.

I treated myself to a new hifi system hehe.

we tiled the bathroom floor which was a pain in the arse as the tiles are porcelain and were very hard to cut even with an electric tile cutter with diamond blade.

My PC is now in the guest room as I have no office now Boohoo

The main bedroom and look my shorts match the bed,HEHEE.

I still have a lot of work to do,We are starting to lay a solid oak floor tomorrow and we are also having the garage knocked through to the kitchen and converted into a dining room.

Hope you enjoyed the tour of our humble abode.

Yahhh,Im back on line.

Finally Im back on line.
I just got my line up today and the first place to visit is here.

Ive moved into my new home and have had a lot of work to do like floor tiling etc,I still have a solid oak floor to lay and will be starting that this weekend.
I have quite a bit of work to do on the garden but to be honest Ive not even thought about that until now.

Its great to be back on line and be able to communicate with my friends and check out what you have all been up to which ill be doing over the next few days as im at home.

Thank for checking my blog out,I hope you all had a great Christmas and I wish you all the best for this new year.

Not going to be online for the next few weeks.

Its been a very busy time for me lately as I am in the process of moving house.
We have perchased a detached bungalow which has a nice big garden and trees :-)

We decided to sell up as our children have all flown the coup and we no longer need so many rooms,also the house we live in now is a semi and to be honest I cannot stand for a house that I own to be joined onto another house where I have to put up with neighbours noise.

This is a win win situation for me as the new place has a large garden with apple and plum trees,It also has a bigger workshop than I have now.
Ill be able to give up my allotment and be able to have the space to grow my veg at home which will get rid of traveling to and from my allotment and also I won,t have to pay the rent on that land.

So at the moment its all go for me,we have been sorting out and downsizing.
It surprising how much unneeded stuff you collect over the years.

Im looking forward to moving to my new home and should be in there before Christmas,I have some nice new projects to get on with next year like setting out my veg garden,making apple Cider,wine,chutneys and so on so please keep checking in on me from time to time..

Dangler sheath for my Knife.

I was talking to my good friend Mark two days ago about the knife project I had just finished and how I needed to make a sheath and he said he had just the thing.

Mark knows that I like dangler sheathes so he very kindly posted this sheath from the Isle of Man.

The sheath is black 4mm leather.

He only posted it yesterday and it was here when I got home from work :-)

So a big thanks Mark.

    

Its as if the sheath was made for this knife as it fits it perfectly.