Welcome to The Good Life!


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Hello and welcome to our little part of cyberspace! I'm Viki and live with my husband, best friend and personal chef Paul at the top of the Elham Valley! Our friends refer to us as Tom and Barbara, because we're basically trying to live The Good Life! We run a business called Valley Crafts UK selling our own handmade and handpainted thingymabobs on Etsy - www.valleycraftsuk.com

We are owned by two cats and have a random number of chickens - including some of our neighbour's birds which tend to pop by from time to time... Paul can mostly be found in his workshop creating wondrous things out of wood, like chicken arks and cat houses, or in the kitchen making delicious fudge and chutneys. I spend most of my time in the office/craft room where I knit, crochet, attempt to learn to sew, and paint traditional canalia (that's "roses and castles" style painting).

We grow our own veg, brew our own beers and wines, make chutney, eat free-range eggs from our own chickens and are a hybrid of country bumpkins and cool hippies with some boho chic thrown in for good measure.

Where Are We?  

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January:

Took Christmas tree down, house bare, announced pregnancy, got bigger, bought new clothes, got bigger, borrowed clothes, got bigger, first baby scan - baby danced!, bladder too full for scan: crushed baby, emptied bladder: got pictures of baby, gave one to mum, mum cried, got bigger, rescued abandoned kitten, kitten settled in, called her Poppy, Poppy peed on the bed, litter trained Poppy, got bigger, got Valley Crafts ready for launch, had a row with guy at work, walked out of work, went back to work: guy at work off sick for a week - got karma, found entire series of Eerie Indiana, found entire series of David the Gnome, got bigger, took part in Big Garden Birdwatch: weather was awful - saw one bird, got bigger, sold PSP, bought Kindle, downloaded too many books to read, got bigger, heavy snowfall, 4x4 meant no snow-day, snow stayed, had snow-day anyway, got bigger.

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