If I ever find this site again it will be a miracle! It has taken me two days and several months book reading to get this far. I am not a techie. I can cope with sail-boats, international accountancy, foreign food, making cider but computers are like women, difficult to figure out and not always reliable.
Our grand design is coming to completion. I am working on my 'longere' which is a long narrow building in half-timbering and stone. I have had some help from my 'potes' (mates) and Jewel, my better half, hasslaved away over hot stove since Jan to provide us with gourmet meals. Now that the sun has come out for the first time since May 07 we are eating wraps and salads.

I am going to try and insert some stories about our adventures buying and renovating the Lost Domain and when November comes I'll tell you about cider making.

We have just finished lambing and are getting more than our fair share of dumbo sheep because we haven't been able to change rams yet. Jewel has just been to the UK on a scouting trip for some Balwen rams. You can find the Balwen society on the net. They are a small race and look like Border Collies ie Black with 4 white paws, a white tail tip and a white blaze on the head. We were full of plans to produce knitting wool or weave/sell the meat/produce thermofleece but as Robbie says 'the best laid plans of mice and men gang aft aglay'. Research is ongoing - Jewel never gives up. That's why I call her Jewel - she a precious asset. (pronounced 'precocious ass')