Having fun must be taken seriously because ‘living on the job’ as smallholders do it is easy just to work; this can be as destructive as not working enough, only this time family relationships suffer. Take time out with your family to do whatever you fancy. Sunday afternoon is usually a good time, or late [...]
Before long you will have compiled a good list of jobs requiring attention. Somehow this list has to be graded so that you can not only do the most important work first, but do the jobs in a logical order, each one building on another, rather than randomly doing a bit here and a bit [...]
After the turmoil of the move you wake up one morning and find that what you have planned for, striven for and dreamed of has happened. You now have a smallholding. For the first few days there will be plenty to do just finding the teapot and generally trying to create some kind of sanity [...]