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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Free Range Chickens! We finally finished the fencing around the new chicken village :-) Broody hen has her own coop whilst the others have the larger one which Paul built. We haven’t clipped their wings on advice from others, so we’ll see how long they stay in their part of the garden! Run free, my little hens! :-)

Free Range Chickens! We finally finished the fencing around the new chicken village :-) Broody hen has her own coop whilst the others have the larger one which Paul built. We haven’t clipped their wings on advice from others, so we’ll see how long they stay in their part of the garden! Run free, my little hens! :-)

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