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blowin · Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 3:46 am Post subject: your daily routine ?

I sometimes feel that I have spent the whole day being busy doing absolutely nothing, for all the end-result I can see . It is only when you think back that you realise just how many "little" routines take up the hours that had been intended for that big project .....
So , since you haven't got a "proper" job , what do you actually do all day ?
( Blowins might have a sense of deja vue when reading that question ) .

blowin · Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 1:03 am Post subject:

Haha 42 views and no replies ! Perhaps it was a silly question . I'm sure we can all produce a list of jobs which have to be done every day , but what chance of getting them done in anything like a routine manner ( set time , dosage Shocked

, sequence , etc .. ) without interruption or distraction ? Not a lot .
Maybe I should have asked what the ideal routine should be , assuming that you had someone there to help or even do it for you . I am thinking of a series of daily events which would give an outsider an insight into the type of day you might expect , if there is such a thing . Please don't give any personal details . We will allow a little poetic licence if necessary to paint the picture ( eg no-one is going to check whether you really start milking the chickens at 2 AM rather than 4 Wink

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My reason for asking ? Mainly curiousity I guess but I also find it motivational to know what can be done , and it might be an insight for those who are about to take the plunge into "our" sort of lifestyle .

Conor · Joined: 15 Dec 2006 Posts: 21 Location: Lost in suburbia

I'd prefer not to bring in the RC forum, but this might be of some use for now: http://forum.rivercottage.net/viewtopic.php?t=19813&highlight=

I found 3-4 detailed accounts in there that were greatly helpful. Laughing

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admin · Site Admin Joined: 13 Dec 2006 Posts: 227

Haha , you have spotted my real purpose in asking for those accounts Wink

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The notes in my entry as a Wwoof host clearly state that the hours may be long and the work will be hard but varied . We don't have much of a routine ourselves . It is basically just to feed and check a few animals twice a day . What goes either side of that is anybody's guess but there seems to be an awful lot of it . It is difficult to convey what is involved to a stranger from another culture and country without adding structure and detail to the description . I thought that a couple of " typical daily lives on the farm " could be an interesting and useful point for comparison .
If I get no further replies I will assume that everyone else lives in a state of perpetual flux too . At least there is some comfort in numbers . Laughing

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wayland · Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 1171 Location: Campile. Wexford

We get up about 10:30am. Spend an hour or so debating what we are going to do for the day. Have brunch. Go for a walk and hope the posty has brought our planning permission letter. Have dinner, watch a DVD. Drink a bottle of wine and go to bed. Boring Boring Boring. Ho Hum Crying or Very sad

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tringle · Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 11:44 am Post subject:

I listen to my husband giving out that I had a proper job and gave it up to be at home doing wifey things but keep asking him for money.
I get up early, feed the cats, get everyone else up and fed and out to the right places. I may give them lifts if needed.
I come home, clean the kithchen, put on washing/drying. Realise it is alsmost midday and that I am still in my pyjamas and have had no breakfast.
Get fed, get dressed, make lunch (husband no feels that by right he should come home for lunch)
afternnon and early evening is spent doing taxi duty for all

and so on and so on and so on

At nighbt when I am asleep I plan the wonderful garden I am going to have and all the food we are going to get from it...
...but then daytime dawns again and the day is full running around so no gardening today
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tringle · Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 11:48 am Post subject:

That wasnt really what you meant though was it Wink

You wanted to hear about feeding animals, and planting and harvesting and walkintg through woods gathering food and making my own wine and still having time to enjoy the good life didnt you.
Well as I said before, I havent got there yet but my intentions are good.
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keithrawlins · Joined: 18 Feb 2007 Posts: 152 Location: banbridge

up at 6am get the hen feed mix ready 1part weat 2 part layers pellets for my wife to feed about 9 930. get my lunch ready then go do 10 hours resting at a (real job) then home at about 530 check the hens, then (at the moment its fill in the drainage ditch i dug in the back lawn until it gets dark, then come in and get in the wifes way.

Kira · Joined: 02 Jan 2007 Posts: 27 Location: Belfast

I have a "proper" job Sad

It's fabulous for the 10 minutes when my salary hits my bank account, before various expenses go out. I really, really, really don't like living in a city.

Still, it's only for another couple of years. After that we'll have a couple of acres and OH can work away while I stay home dealing with the land, feeding free range chickens and children Smile

Oh the knitting I shall do bwah ha ha haaaa!

Luke · Joined: 10 Apr 2007 Posts: 11 Location: Waterford

Well at the moment i'm between jobs so apart from studying, each day I gotta water all the plants (no rain in three weeks!), feed the foxes, and check for any more leaves that may have emerged on the trees Razz