Weber Farm

One Way to Shop If You Have A Bad Credit Score

admin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:35:07 +0000

Recently I had a conversation with a friend of mine who had a bad credit score on how to shop when that’s the case. She suggested those catalogue stores are a great option in this situation. Here is some of what we discussed.

Catalogue stores are a wonderful resource to buy necessities if you have a bad credit score in the United Kingdom. A bad credit score can make it hard to buy things, as some stores will not be willing to extend credit to someone deemed risky according to a credit report.

Unlike banks and petrol stations selling white diesel and ethanol, catalogue stores can allow you to shop despite a low credit score by offering lines of credit or reasonable payment schedules. Such catalogue stores will often approve credit for items you buy in their stores regardless of a poor credit history. Some catalogue stores will not even require a credit check.

The line of credit they offer may be low, but it will allow you to buy items you need. Reasonable payment plans are often available, so you can enjoy goods now while paying for them later (sometimes up to a year later).

Aside from physical stores that you visit, many of these stores offer online shopping, so you are able to buy things conveniently, too. Free shipping and returns are usually standard, and there are often excellent promotions to make shopping easier and more value-oriented.

Popular catalogue stores that offer instant credit regardless of credit history include Brighthouse and Very Catalogue. Brighthouse has many physical stores throughout the United Kingdom, and both stores have a wide range of products.

It is best not to abuse the offer of credit from these stores as this can cause them to change their policy regarding offering extended credit to customers.

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What we can learn from animals

admin — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:34:12 +0000

Here at the farm we have animals galore…pigs and chickens and cows and more. We even have rats! Although that isn’t supposed to be how it is; they came one day and no matter what poison we lay down they seem intent on staying.

So, here, for your enjoyment, are animals and what we can learn from them:

Pigs: the pigs, what with their carefree attitude to life and love of cleanliness – people think they are messy but actually they really love being clean and hygienic – can teach us a lot about how to do things better. One thing our pigs do is oink extra loudly. This makes them one of the most assertive animals on our farm.
Chickens: the chickens are easily, by far the most optimistic birds in the world, in our opinion. They bop their heads constantly and are always keen to start a new day what with their love of getting up early and waking us all up well before we might otherwise…

And here are some more…

They are a secret society who I always imagine have computers and blackboards and everything underground

Cows: the cows are just very content. Calm, thoughtful, never in a hurry: this is how the cows like to live. They never give us any hassle and are somewhat philosophical about their existence. If you catch them in the right light you can see them pondering things in a highly intellectual way which baffles me just to think about it. I kid you not!
Rats: if rats were people then they’d be doing poster printing , I think. I say this because they spend a lot of time scampering around and it reminds me of the man who comes to pick up bacon and never has any time (he runs the local village newspaper, don’t you know).
The geese: the loudest of them all, when the geese feel like competing with the morning cries of the roosters, it’s well…it’s very loud is what it is. When this happens I run outside and tell them all off and they all scamper and shut up. It’s really quite amusing, actually. I seriously doubt they will ever learn…
The moles: the moles crop up everywhere, yes, even in the crops themselves. They are a secret society who I always imagine have computers and blackboards and everything underground. But there again, my mother always did say I had a vivid imagination…(although if you saw how intelligent they look when they bop up out of the ground all unexpected, I’m sure you’d think exactly the same about them!).

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What we can learn from animals

admin — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:13:20 +0000

So, here, for your enjoyment, are animals and what we can learn from them:

Pigs: the pigs, what with their carefree attitude to life and love of cleanliness – people think they are messy but actually they really love being clean and hygienic – can teach us a lot about how to do things better. One thing our pigs do is oink extra loudly. This makes them one of the most assertive animals on our farm.
Chickens: the chickens are easily, by far the most optimistic birds in the world, in our opinion. They bop their heads constantly and are always keen to start a new day what with their love of getting up early and waking us all up well before we might otherwise…

And here are some more…

They are a secret society who I always imagine have computers and blackboards and everything underground

Cows: the cows are just very content. Calm, thoughtful, never in a hurry: this is how the cows like to live. They never give us any hassle and are somewhat philosophical about their existence. If you catch them in the right light you can see them pondering things in a highly intellectual way which baffles me just to think about it. I kid you not!
Rats: if rats were people then they’d be doing poster printing , I think. I say this because they spend a lot of time scampering around and it reminds me of the man who comes to pick up bacon and never has any time (he runs the local village newspaper, don’t you know).
The geese: the loudest of them all, when the geese feel like competing with the morning cries of the roosters, it’s well…it’s very loud is what it is. When this happens I run outside and tell them all off and they all scamper and shut up. It’s really quite amusing, actually. I seriously doubt they will ever learn…
The moles: the moles crop up everywhere, yes, even in the crops themselves. They are a secret society who I always imagine have computers and blackboards and everything underground. But there again, my mother always did say I had a vivid imagination…(although if you saw how intelligent they look when they bop up out of the ground all unexpected, I’m sure you’d think exactly the same about them!).

Mortgage Busters

admin — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 13:33:06 +0000

In the old days, before factory farming and cheap meat, American farmers used to call their hogs ’mortgage busters’. That is because they could breed a few, feed them on feed and farm waste and then when they were in a financial bind, take them for slaughter and make a quite a bit of money. Here at Weber Farm we have been thinking about different types of things that we could raise that would be similar. Last year we raised turkeys from chicks in order to mature in time for Christmas. It worked pretty well, but we had a difficult time getting the right number of buyers and getting them to those buyers in a cost effective manner. It is simply too expensive to ship a 20 pound turkey Federal Express. This year my daughter suggested we try using eBay Couriers. It was perfect to get somebody, to sort the whole thing out for us. We are advertising our special hand reared organic turkeys and we are going to be able to sell them on anywhere in England and Wales. It seems to have cracked open a whole new world of possibility to getting some pretty fragile goods to buyers quickly and afford-ably. It was such an issue with the strawberries this year because we have two wonderful patches of a boutique breed that is incredibly delicious, but looses half of its taste within hours of being picked. It was incredible, we found a jam maker on Ebay near Cardiff who bought the whole lot!

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Summer’s delights

admin — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:03:20 +0000

Summer time on the farm has got to be one my favourites, the sun beating down on you as you work and that fresh summer’s breeze uplifting your mood and getting you ready for the tasks ahead. The neighbouring farms have little baby goats running around the lanes and they are so fluffy and cute, I could just stare at them all the day long. All the wildflowers are out in the meadows and they are a beautiful reminder that summer is here once again. The fruit trees are very productive and the cherries are so big, ripe and juicy.

Summer time is one of the most productive times of year on the farm as you can make money out of the animals and fruit being produced on the trees. Picking the cherries, apples and peaches isn’t such a bad job when you can take them to the markets and sell them on a stall among the other exhibition stands. Fruit isn’t the only thing that can help make some extra money on the farm, if you have goats or sheep that have given birth you can milk them and sell this on too. You can even use the milk to make soaps and other beauty products if you know how. There is always something on the farm that can help you make some extra money. The vegetable garden is also growing well, there is an abundance of lettuce, radish, spinach, potatoes and beans as well as a whole host of other food for the picking.

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Farm life

admin — Wed, 25 May 2011 15:03:12 +0000

Often I get overworked here at the farm, but that’s not to say that I don’t also get a lot of enjoyment out of it too. And with some truly spectacular guests here, making things fun for visitors, why wouldn’t it be?

Here they are, here’s a cast list of my favourite guests.

1) Henry the talking pig: right, so he doesn’t actually talk. We can’t have a conversation, and he mistakes yes for no way too much, but he’s also a good boy. We’ll never eat old Henry. He’s just for the guests, living out his remaining days in peace and comfort.

2) Jack the fox: though not an official member of the farm by any means, Jack is fun and appears every late evening. He came to us one day when he was a pup, and has been coming across the field out the back ever since. He is quite tame but still alert to things like wild fixes are. May he keep on coming for a long time to come.
3) Derek the shire horse: a gentle giant who loves his carrots as much as he loves his company, Derek is an extra special friend who I couldn’t do without. Also, he makes the sweetest neighing noise on earth, which is really nice to hear. It doesn’t half cheer your day up.
4) Daisy the cow: Daisy will eat anything – even a thick laser hair removal birmingham brochure that came through our door once was not able to escape her wrath. But she’s a gorgeous black and white colour, so it’s hard to get annoyed with Daisy.

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The future of diaries…

admin — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 13:03:15 +0000

If you know me, you know I love writing in my diary. It’s fun, it’s a great way to record what happens in your daily life, and most importantly of all it gives you something to do with your time which is really fun. Or at least I think so.

This weblog thing is also a miracle. I mean, much as I love my diary and will always keep it to some extent, the weblog is the future. It’s just unbeatable when it comes to sharing your thoughts with people instantly, and then there are all the added bonuses like music, photographs and video which you can embed.

In other words, we live in a very, very good time in human history. Had we been born a hundred years earlier we’d have died of the plague by now. So don’t you think we’re lucky?

The only downside of the internet is, of course, the fact that people take the internet ethos of everything-done-in-a-second, and apply that to other walks of life. This is when it gets tricky for me: I am happy with people expecting me to email them relatively quickly, but I’m not happy with the idea of all our lives being governed by the same rules as the digital revolution!

Still, whatever your like, compression clothing , monkeys or Greek islands, you can find a weblog about it, and the age of the diary has never been more glorious. Which is good for me, because if you ask anyone who knows me, I am starting to run out of space for my written ones…

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My Snap Shot Of The Mediterranean Diet

admin — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:08:57 +0000

I am in search of a carte r4 for a Nintendo game console and as I searched I stumbled upon an internet ad on one of the sites I visited that was advertising the Mediterranean Diet. Now since I have had problems losing weight over the last few years I tried to find out as much as I can about it. Here’s a bit of what I found out.

The Mediterranean diet is a diet plan that came from places surrounding the Mediterranean Sea, and adopted by many countries. This diet is proven to result in weight loss and a healthy heart for people who strictly follow the plan.

The Mediterranean diet involves consuming a good amount of fresh fruits, tasty food and exercise. The only disadvantage of the Mediterranean diet is that it may not be ideal for people allergic to shellfish.

Other foods included in this diet besides fresh fruits are vegetables, bread and cereals. There is a little serving of fish, chicken and milk products. The diet allows you to drink a little wine. You also have to take olive oil on a regular basis.

The Mediterranean diet has its own form of food pyramid, which breaks down food on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. Included in the food pyramid is not only healthy food but also exercise. People on any of the Mediterranean diets tend to consume less saturated fat.

To make sure that the diet will work for you, follow the plan religiously – eat the healthy food recommended and do not forget to do your exercises.

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Keeping me on my toeshttp://www.weberfarm.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=552

admin — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 19:33:02 +0000

Spring is a busy time on the farm. After all, the ground is just about starting to thaw, so we have no more excuses not to be out their digging – no matter what the weather!
You can’t worry too much about what you look like when you’re doing this kind of manual labour. Although Cassie did always manage to look stylish when she was helping out, even down to her very inappropriate manicures. Me, I often don’t have time to brush the hair on my head, let alone worry about hair removal anywhere else, so when an invitation came to a friend’s birthday party, I accepted and put it to the back of my mind, figuring I had plenty of time to find an outfit and to make myself look pretty.
Wouldn’t you know it? The damn party only went and crept up on me! There I was taking a well-earned break from the field by tidying up in the living room (I know, I lead such a glamorous life…) when I found the invitation hidden behind the mantelpiece clock and realised it was dated tomorrow.
No panic, I thought. I have a couple of dresses in the wardrobe upstairs that I haven’t worn in ages, so that’s the same as having a new frock right? Well, that might work if I hadn’t put on a few pounds since the last time I got invited to a posh party! In the end, the only vaguely party-ish outfit I could find involved strappy sleeves and quite a plunging neckline! Not my usual style, but it was either that or my muck-stained jeans and sweater…
Next problem was what to do about those hairy underarms – especially with my female razor rusted up and stuck to the shelf in the bathroom cabinet. I knew hubby would never forgive me if he caught me using his fancy five-blade affair to remove the forest that had grown in my armpits, so it was either face his wrath or do a Julia Roberts. I still can’t decide which is worse; a grumpy hubby or social suicide. Help!

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Little House on the Prairie

admin — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 12:03:03 +0000

I had never done it before (no I don’t mean bikini hair removal ), but am completely intrigued by the possibility. My friend was over the other day and started eyeing my maple tree up and down. You’ve never tapped that tree? she said. I had absolutely no idea what she was talking about. Huh? I said. That is a great maple tree, you can tap that and get some really nice maple syrup from it.

This is when I really started paying attention. We love maple syrup, it is the staple of our Sunday morning pancakes. It started when the kids were young, and even though they have left, and my grocery bill has decreased significantly, we still enjoy blueberry pancakes with real maple syrup on a Sunday morning.

It is really easy, my friend says, you simply drill a hole into the tree, and then place a tap into the tree. You hang a bucket from the tap and then put over a protective cover to keep bits of debris out.

The sap will run best out of the tree after a very cold night followed by a nice warm day. You have to move the holes after a while as the tree will heal around them and no sap will run that way after a time. The sap is then boiled down and reduced into a syrup.

My friend noticed that the tree we had was nice and mature, probably between fifty and a hundred years old. We just had never thought about tapping it before, but after the first run, we are now completely addicted to home made maple syrup. We are scouting other trees on our land with the hopes of being able to produce enough to give as gifts to friends and family.

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