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e close so i popped out back to have a look thirteen goats stood there starring over the electric fence at a fox about 30 meters away just behind a wired fenced area that our neighbour keeps for vegetables then i spotted boris sitting down in the garden area minding his own business with his back to the fox has boris gone deaf i wondered the fox continued to bark at him and was only 5m or so behind him with a very flimsy wire fence between them boris get out f there boris boris i shouted hoping to get his attention whilst looking for my phone to take a picture or video then the fox made it through the fence just as boris had started to walk towards me i dropped the phone and jumped the electric fence hoping to scare the fox away before it got to boris boris has a very lazy style of walking and not just because of the winter fat he is carrying he walks like that because he s the top cat around here but even then when he gently turned his head to look what was happening behind him his pace slowed down the fox was making ground fast certainly faster than me and boris and me for that matter boris i shouted again just as the fox was upon him and still a good 20m away from me fur up claws out a quick one two move no doubt making contact and the fox did a runner i nearly gave him a hug but then i saw what he did to the fox and had second thoughts j author eddy winko posted on february 1 2022 categories life in poland tags nature 31 comments on big bad boris and finally jackie is still with us and remains my faithful companion although the walks are getting shorter and less frequent dennis and zara still disappear every morning to be fed at a neighbour only to return as darkness falls to sleep in the boiler room where it is nice and warm i would put pictures up of the two of them but i don t have a lens with a wide enough angle let s just say the neighbour spoils them despite her denials that she feeds then at all they are free fat and happy so i don t plan to change things despite my love of dogs the house is now overrun by cats three of them bubbles whitey and marshmallow english translations we do have a forth a tom called borris who lives in the barn but his habits are far from polite and he is kept outside when he visits the house for food i don t think he actually does much as his figure is much the same as dennis and zaras but on the odd occasion that he wants to play when i m in the barn i m sure to wear gauntlets he has been known to kill the rabbits we keep so his death grip is strong in fact of all the animals we have he is probably the most dangerous borris bubs warming herself on the underfloor heating bubs chilling awwww can you tell who my favourite is we had a few volunteers again this last year through the workaway program but the numbers and applications were notably down due to covid and the two couples who stayed were already in poland one couple in particular really gelled well with the family and as we do with a few other past volunteers we have kept in touch not only is it great for me to have an extra pair of hands we also get to meet a variety of people who share their experiences and culture something that i hope may help the kids to think a little differently in the future after all its not every day that you meet someone who has climbed mountains in the himalayas rafted in south america spent weeks in silent meditation or simply come from somewhere other than poland or the uk so that s it i have written a post who would have thought thank you pete for nudging me once again hopefully this will also prompt me to write a few emails that i have put off for far too long with old friends and if i manage that then maybe i ll start keeping a record of our slow lifestyle again thanks for sticking with me and the family and a happy new year to you all author eddy winko posted on january 5 2022 categories uncategorized tags life poland 19 comments on and finally goats and horses part 2 i m glad i split this post up as it gave me a chance to download pictures from gosias phone and it has to be said she takes a far better picture than me and of more relevant things hopefully some of them will fit with the narrative that i have already written all of this new planned work is possible as i managed to secure a grant to develop the farm so the lavender along with an increase in goat numbers forms the basis of the business plan that we put forward we will use the grant to purchase new equipment for the tractor for cultivation and care of the new crops a milking machine to stop my hands from cramping up during milking and a good few hundred plants to supplement the ones we have already planted welcome to winkos lavender farm we have already converted more of our house cellar into a shop and second kitchen for processing cheese so with all the extra products that will be coming out of the farm and products from other local artisans we should truly become a cottage industry with horse riding a shop of sorts with lots of products from other local artisans it has given malina something to do as she fills bags with dried lavender for the shop and she is saving the money for that pony one thing that we did notice during the last year and a half of covid is that people really wanted to get out of the cities and whilst we remained cautious about guests at first as the vaccines rolled out we experienced a steady increase in customers visiting the house a trend we hope continues the visitors not the covid this more than made up for the lack of markets throughout the year and has now reached the point that with the exception of a few long term commitments we no longer need to pack up the van set out and set up our market stall of course we are ready to go back to this if required but if the customers keep on visiting then it fits our life better mentioning covid reminded me that i took malina on a road trip to austria to see family back in october it was a nice easy drive of about 9 hours down to the south by gratz we were spoilt rotten whilst we were there and taken to various restaurants on our short stay as someone who was happy to get the jab i had my covid pass on me and the process of showing it to gain entry was smooth as silk i only mention this as i m surprised to hear about the resistance that there is in the uk and some other countries if you don t want to get jabbed that s fine by me i m more of a risk to you than you are to me but having a pass to enter places where crowds gather seems like a good idea to me and we didn t experience any of the downsides that i have read about in the uk press by the way pete the composting toilets are still going strong the operation not the smell and you would be surprised at the interest they generate by casual visitors the guided tour of the process can take a good ten minutes and it s only a matter of time before i do a youtube video for the one or two people who are truly interested of course this is just one of the things that we do to try and minimise the impact we have on the planet solar panels for heating water solar pv for generating some of our own electricity growing as much of our own food as possible i won t go on but if i was going to start blogging on a regular basis again i think i would have to start offering tips on how we can all make a difference the problem is it would be one of many so would it really be worth it if it didn t have an audience almost 700 hundred words again my fault for getting onto covid so time to break it down to a third part i hope you don t mind more tomorrow author eddy winko posted on january 4 2022 categories uncategorized tags agriculture composting toilet humanure life poland self sufficiency 22 comments on goats and horses part 2 goating and riding around in 2022 part 1 where to start after more than a year without posting a look back over the last year a list of hopes and dreams for the future or just an unstructured ramble as is my habit i should start with the children yes they are still here i haven t shipped them off to boarding school in my dreams or worked them to the point of exhaustion it s a struggle to get them to empty the dishwasher nor have we moved to a new house whilst they were at school home schooling put a stop to that idea truth be told they have just got taller more independent talkative inquisitive and annoying fortunately despite becoming grumpier i have also become more patient as i have got older i just wish i had a bit more energy but then don t we all i even tried locking them up with the rabbits hoof cleaning time thankfully as they age they are more inclined to play with each other 80 of the time without fighting too much and they have developed a common love of horses luckily gosia supplies a nearby stable with soaps which they sell as souvenirs and this has become a handy exchange for horse riding lessons which is where they spent their summer weekends unluckily this love of horses has turned into the new expectation try as i might to discourage the idea of getting a horse pony i fear i am outnumbered given that gosia also quite likes the idea so this year i will be building a stable now to be honest it s not all bad as it fits in with the bigger plans that we have in fact i don t mind at all as long as i m not the one left mucking out at the end of every day this i have made clear the thirteen goats that we have soon to be twenty provide enough crap for one man to deal with but it is due to this planned expansion that i had already taken steps to build a shelter for the farm equipment and drying area for the various plants that we now grow to compliment the cosmetics which in turn freed up space in the barn for the extra goats and potentially a small horse as with most things nothing is planned around here it just happens so i have probably said too much already shelter one thing i do know for sure is that we will be planting out the top field with more lavender this year after the success of the four rows that we planted last year i m hoping i find a picture as it s hard to describe but we have essentially set aside around a half hectare 1 ¼ acres for lavender along with some space for other botanicals for gosia cosmetics ok not such a good picture the four rows of plants are pruned for the winter but we did learn that red deer do not eat lavender although our goats do like to rub their horns on the plants no doubt trying to improve their aroma so fencing or hedging is also on the cards this year i just noticed i m probably pushing your attention span so this is to be continued tomorrow author eddy winko posted on january 3 2022 categories uncategorized tags agriculture life poland 33 comments on goating and riding around in 2022 part 1 in the garden this year someone asked me recently about a month ago what we were growing this year i logged the question with intentions of writing a post as soon i had taken some pictures which i promptly did take some pictures that is so here you go some pictures of the veg gardens this year albeit from around 4 weeks ago with a brief listing of what we are growing the bean triangle not to be mistaken for the bermuda triangle although it is true to say that many things were lost to weeds over time green beans yellow beans purple beans all dwarf varieties for freezing and eating fresh climbing borlotti beans in the foreground growing on hazel tepees our beans for drying and then filling in the gaps we have purple spouting broccoli brussel sprouts green and purple kale paprika a couple of varieties of chillies sunflowers garlic shallots and a permanent bed of 5 asparagus plants that we grew from seed about 4 years ago oh i almost forgot there is also a variety of french pumpkin in there moving onto the green house which is new for me we have had great success with cucumbers aubergine cape gooseberries melons and luffas not to mention all the salad that we had early season i will plan better next year but i can see the greenhouse working well into the autumn and possibly early winter for more salad crops my pride and joy is always the tomato and pepper patch about 100 plants of each sadly struck down by blight not long after this picture but with some aggressive pruning to cut out the disease we are still able to harvest a basket or two every day running down the side of these are a few rows of celeriac basil spring onions more peppers and some lavender from seed past the permanent and ever expanding raspberry patch we have an area for gherkins then courgettes carrots turnip root parsley parsnips beetroot and to the left calendula which gosia uses as decoration for her soaps it is at this point that i realise that i never took a picture of the thousand plus onions that i planted or the leeks or the butternut squash all in the third patch that we work i should also mention that we have twenty rows 80 meter of maincrop potatoes an acre of peas as a cover crop but still harvestable 5 rows of styrian pumpkins and a mixture of hokkaido and other pumpkins scattered about the place sometimes i wonder why we do it looking back only this last month we have pickled gherkins made jars of ratatouille and started on our planned hundred plus jars of passata and the second freezer is now in service full of peas and beans so if we go back into lockdown we have plenty to keep us going author eddy winko posted on august 19 2020 categories uncategorized tags gardening 36 comments on in the garden this year future dream i don t do fiction but this has run around in my head for a few days now so i had to write it down i woke up at 6am it seemed to be getting a little earlier everyday as the spring sunshine came through the widow just another day my routine was still much the same have a cup of tea followed by another and another greeting members of the family as they ventured downstairs check emails read blogs and the news and most importantly the local web portal to see what was going on in our community the big news for the end of the quarter was that we had generated a good amount of electricity in recent months thanks to the good weather and the community council was already considering increasing the number of pv panels that we have there was also a suggestion that we should make the move to hydrogen production with the excess power that we generated and run our own fuel cell for the lean times i added my thoughts to the monthly discussion document that was available to all within our mini society and moved onto more immediate things after all it would be the end of the year before any big decision would be made there were no new supply opportunities but then most of these were negotiated the year before but there were two new applications for new business cheese making another one and a cobbler i whole heartedly supported the latter as it was still hard to get a decent pair of functional boots rather than some imported stylised flimsy junk that lasted a few months before they ...