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Continuing to complete this year what we continued to complete last because we didn't finish it two years ago! 🤣Things often take longer than expected!

Happy New Year to you two, too😊I like this term, Wintering, and is necessary for us to take some time for relaxing, introspection, planning ahead. You are so well organised, it is nice to see everything clean and tidy in your house and in your garden, an inspiration for me. Wishing you two all the very best for this new year ahead. Looking forward to your next videos, thank you for sharing all of these with us.❤

Cats and jigsaws ... hopefully all the pieces stay on the table =-). May 2025 be good to you both. Our growing season is coolish and wet which is slowing growth, hopefully the warm weather will remember to come soon. I don't do resolutions but do try to complete a few tasks which are not completed. Stay warm and enjoy the book. =-)

Happy New Year to you as well. The time is for our planning our new gardens.

You are a Lovely Lady ❤❤❤

All the best for 2025. Have a happy New Year. 🎆 🎇

I hope 2025 is everything you want it to be. Thank you for letting me join you in trips around your garden and playing with the cats. Take care =-)

Happy Hogmanay with love, gratitude and peace in 2025 to everyone everywhere. Thank you Highlanders 🥰🎉

Thank you for your lovely and positive energy, which comes out from all your videos. Thank you for sharing it with us.Wishing you a Happy New Year! 🎉❤

Happy Hogmanay to you all.

Hiya Menita, a late, but neverthless 'MERRY CHRISTMAS' to you, Adam and your family'! Every year I think about making bees wax wraps as theyre such a useful kitchen tool and every year I forget. So youve yet again inspired me. (I've now written it in my diary so it cant be forgotten yet again) I did make some wee gifts for my girls....I made embroidered wardrobe sachets which I stuffed with home grown lavender. The embroidery was from a very old table cloth my mother embroidered but never finished when she was 17 years old. (my mother is 87 years old) The table cloth was stained and discoloured but the wee embroidered flower motifs were all in good condition so could be repurposed. I wanted the girls to have something made by me and their granny :) I also made tablet as I do every Christmas for Brian. Over the years I have made it with granulated white sugar, white castor sugar, raw sugar and brown sugar. Im never happy with the outcome because I was it to be more smooth and less gritty. I follow the rules of ensuring the sugar is dissolved before adding the condensed milk and yet still slightly gritty!. This year I used powdered sugar also known as icing sugar and the tablet was to my mind perfect! I was so pleased and then another Scottish friend told me 'part of the taste is the gritty texture'! bah humbug. But Brian did enjoy it so thats all that really matters :) We are still hay making. We were rained out during the week around Xmas and its still wet on and off, so we are patiently watching the weather forecast for a week of clear sunny weather and then we are back into it. Xmas day was lovely for me as Brian always cooks what is now his traditional pancakes, bacon, fried banana and fresh fruit piled ontop with lashings of coconut yoghurt. He only cooks it once a year so we all look forward to it :) Zoe my daughter and her partner came for breakfast which was a lovely surprise. We puddled around the place for the afternoon and dinner was decadent desserts. 5 in total (enough to give one diabetes or a heart attack) 2 were healthy and 3 werent! We all woke up the following morning with sugar hangovers (that will teach us :)) Anyway I hope you had the most wonderful Christmas and I'll catch you on the other side of Hogmana in 2025. Take care and all the best wishes from us lot down under. Rae x

Nice idea to make these for gifts. Always enjoy looking at cooking videos and new things to make.

Merry Christmas, All the best for the new year 2025, I like your home made gifts, you are very thoughtful.

Merry Christmas from a new subscriber in Canada. I love the cosiness of your video. I make Cranberry Chutney and gift jars every year for friends. Last year I made cloth produce and bulk food bags for my daughter and beeswax wraps for my son and DIL. Homemade gifts are the best.

Have a nice Christmas Day and New Year's Day. I love coming along as you garden and craft. I didn't have time to make gifts this year but hopefully will next year. Take care, hopefully see you in 2025 =-)

Its so beautiful there❤

My Scottish/Irish Flippin ancestral genes were stirred as I watched this video! I am moved to try your recipe!

God Yule! Beautiful fire!

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Lovely wreaths. While you are snuggly and cosy we, in New Zealand are enjoying the heat of summer and also being outdoors in the garden. Xmas here is when my fruit trees start to produce fruit and every day I go and check that the birds are not eating them and cover with netting. We sit outside in the evening breeze with our glass of wine enjoying the long evenings.

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Hiya Menita, I really like you horizontal wreath, what a good idea and an idea Im going to have to borrow. I make my own wreaths from my Wisteria vines that I prune. I add a few lengths of vine every year to the wreaths and theyre slowly thickening up. However I really liked your willow wreaths they are so chunky so I think willow is the way to go. Be have willows growing around our ponds down the back of the farm so Im going to raid them. Great idea having a living outdoor tree under your porch, another idea I'll borrow as I have a pine nut tree in a large pot so that will have to do. The over all picture under your wee porch is very inviting and cosy and of course Christmassy :) its was lovely watching the transformation. As Lorraine says its hot balmy days here at the moment. We are still haymaking. We have approx 20 acres to cut for hay. So far weve cut 7 acres so its all hands to the deck! Im having a day in the vege garden today as its also harvest season. We have hedges of Black, Red and White currents that are all ripening faster than I can pick. So Ive spent smorning picking furiously. We also have raspberry, Blackberry, Boysenberry and Tay berry bushes. Unfortunately they havent yeilded much this year or the birds are beating me to it. Tomorrow its back to baling hay. I havent contacted you through instigram yet because I dont do any social media. However Brian has instigram for his work so he's going to message you so we can swap email addresses. I'll forward you pics of the farm and gardens too so then you'll have a better idea of what Im rambling on about. Better go back to the garden. Stay Warm both of you and of course your wee pusses too. Rae x

Love your wreaths and Christmas tree idea. Lol I'm staying inside through the day as the average temp since Saturday has been 26c. Enjoy your hot chocolate while I have my iced water. =-) Take care as always.

Everything so cozy, simple and natural, such a peaceful place to relax. Fantastic ❤

This advice is still very relevant now. Thank you

Hiya Menita, as always I enjoyed watching your vlog. Yes I have a maintenance schedule for my garden tools too. I collect vintage and antique tools, primarily because they are beautiful, but also because theyre solid and well made. I have an ancient hobnailed rake and a lovely hickory handled rose fork and a hickory handled general digging fork and Brian has his fathers beautiful wooden handled potato fork. The handle being made we believe from a native hardwood called Kauri. I give mine a clean in Autumn too. Pretty much the same as your system but the oil I use is boiled linseed or Sunflower oil (just because theyre cheap and effective). Adams face peering out in dismay from the window gave Brian and I a good laugh as Brian pulls the same face from time to time particularly when it comes to sharpening the hedge clipping shears. Im going to continue being a wee bit slow in replying as we are now into our hay making and its all consuming until all the hay is done. Brian and I do it all ourselves, with help from our son to load the bales on the trailer and into the shed. We have all our own vintage hay making equipment which Brian Maintains. Its quite the sight and we have alot of spectators pulling over in their cars and watching me trundle along on our old Ford 110 towing our very old 1958 Bamford butter yellow baler. We think its the only working Bamford left in NZ. Welcome to all the new friends to your channel. It is like a community and for me its my sit down put my feet up for half and hour and see how its all done on the other side of the world in a country I long to see. Anyway Ive rambled on. Take care Rae x

That was a great video, informative, and useful. I admire you for looking after your tools so well, with so much care and respect.That I'd a good lesson for me, and I am grateful to you for sharing it with us. Thank you❤❤

Thank you for the welcome. Love your videos.

I have my Dad's garden tools. The fork has a broken tyne and the handle isn't the best but they won't be upgraded because of sentimental value. I should look after my tools better but the handles and shafts are oiled it's really the little hand tools that I leave around the garden and forget where I had them last. Yay to the woodchip, my favourite for mulch / path covering. Take care and enjoy sorting the woodchip. =-)

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Hiya Menita, Oh goodness remind me to never complain about -5 temperatures. However the sprinkling of snow on your garden did look magical :) We don't really have snow in this part of the country. Certainly not on the flats. It was lovely seeing a wee bit more of your very cute cottage. I love the stone walls and narrow windows. It does look like it belongs where it sits (hope that makes sense) Is it an old crofters cottage? Wee kitty looked very pleased to have you to himself. My cat tends to like to sit on my lap with his head cms away from my face too. I always thought it strange behaviour, but now I see your wee man does it too, maybe its just a cat thing :) Im off now to harvest cabbages. I planted 18 of them during winter, thinking I'd have a number of losses and guess what they all decided to grow and thrive this year. So lots of Sauerkraut and freezer cabbage this year. take care and stay warm. Rae xx

Lovely cottage, very nice to have a log burner. Love your gardening videos. 🌲

Let it snow ❄️❄️❄️

Love snow

It's a pity you didn't get to your Mum's. A nice warm fire, hot scones and tea, a purring cat and a good book. It sounds like Winter. Take care as always. =-)

Another lovely video, everything looks so nice and tidy, as always. Lovely to see you having a bit of well deserved rest and cuddling the cat. Thank you for sharing ❤

Hiya Menita, this is the third time trying to send you a comment. so ill keep it very short. Great vlog, your garden certainly looks like its hunkering down for winter. All the best Rae x

It took ten minutes of shaking the milk (we did not separate the cream out) to get the butter we wanted. Nice memory.

I'm going to a composting course in about 3 weeks as I just haven't got the hang of it. Sigh you are so organised =-) I'm battling weeds but am making progress as seedlings are going in. Now I've got to work out what got the ripe strawberries last night. Lol it is fun really and munching on broccoli as walking around the garden makes it worthwhile. Take care =-)

Fresh farm milk on frosted flakes for breakfast is still a great memory from my childhood .

Hiya Menita, I had written you a long winded comment but it appears to have disappeared and I don't have the time to re-write. the clay water feeders arent something I've seen before but look very useful. great vlog x

Hiya Menita, it was interesting watching the arborist bringing down the tree. They made it look too easy. I think you may be shredding branches until next winter looking at the size of the pile. But I'd be relieved not to have a tree like that hanging over my house. X

Yea yea all very pretty but see …… I do get have a coo , and we aren’t American so we don’t use cups . Nor do I have a fancy kitchen and making these while camping …. In Scotland ……., the wind ….. the gales ….. less romance more practicality please 🤨

It is always something to be done around the garden and land, a never ending job. Not a chance to be bored😊 Thank you for sharing the videos to us, looking forward to the next one. Take care🤗

Firewood galore =-) and paths nicely covered. Win, win. And yes it is fun watching the guys cutting with such skill. Take care as always.

Your poly tunnel is always looking nice. You are so well organised, so tidy and attentive to every detail. Fantastic place! Thank you for taking time to share with us! Looking forward to the next one.🤗❤