Laundry and gardening.

Our progress so far! Check out what it looked like before. There is a photo at the end of this post. Those strange looking vegtables are our little people. How do you deal with all the dirty clothes that playing in the mud brings? Well..................

Ok the hand washing soap experiment may have been a disaster. That stuff came out watery and the most disgusting colour you can imagine, really pukey green so I am back to good ol' hypo allergenic.

However, after a bit of bubble, bubble, toil and trouble in the kitchen last night we have our own laundry detergent. Even if it does not work it was great fun to do and produced vast quantities of detergent which I have to say is the most snot like consistency. For the cost of, I reckon, 80p we have filled two bottles those four containers.... yep that is detergent not milk. (Worry not I have clearly labeled it! That amount of snot in your cereal would be exceedingly unpleasant.) And yep one load of clean fresh smelling washing!! We will have to see how the kids eczema responds tho because we will not mess around with that at any cost.

We spent a few more hours down on the "allotment" today. At the moment we are still clearing. Tedious hard work but there is a sense of achievement and the fresh air is so good for us, away from phones and emails. This picture is encouraging to see how far we have come.

Now all we have to do is decide what we want to plant. Actually it seems to be a lot to do with what will grow well this far north. Funny things is that I have never considered us to be that far north!! The map begs to differ, as does the climate.