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.

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Ben Nevis Charity Climb! →

On 15th October 2011 I will be climbing Britain’s Tallest Mountain, Ben Nevis himself, for Kidney Research UK!

For those of you who don’t know me, it’s a charity I hold close to my heart as I was born undiagnosed with three kidneys and suffered from kidney failure a few years ago because of this.

Kidney Research UK often gets forgotten about in the sea of Good Causes so please give as generously as you can to my sponsor page and help to save lives! If you are a UK taxpayer don’t forget to GiftAid your donation and the government will donate some money cost-free to you as well! We need to raise at least £500 but I’m hoping for £1000!

I’ll be keeping everyone updated with fundraising efforts here on my Tumblr blog and also with my practise efforts - thankfully we live in a VERY hilly area!

Please repost this blog if you think it’s worthy. All support is greatly appreciated - the money is not for me, it’s for Kidney Research UK :-)

Http://www.kidneyresearchukevents.org/threekidneys

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