Please come and admire this vision of domestic godessliness!

[tortoiseSHELL]

I have just made my own ice cream (admittedly in an ice cream maker), USING....

....wait for it......

.....fresh (1-2 days old) laid, free range eggs from our own hens! Hugh FW eat your heart out!!!!! We certainly will later on!

enjoy

I bet it will be lush, what flavour?

Congratulations .

But was the cream from your own cow?

Just did vanilla today, as a first attempt, and also so the children will eat it. Have a lovely book full of amazing recipes to try!

Anna8888 - alas no! But it was organic!

Am very disappointed .

Sorry Anna - our garden is only 60ft, so a cow really would be testing the limits of both our land and our neighbours!!!

I already get funny looks - one very quiet Sunday morning I was leaving the house (we live in the middle of a city btw), and the hens were making a bit of a racket in the garden, and some passers by did a real double take, as they heard this BRAUUUUUU-Bok-bok-bok-bok BRAUUUUU-Bok-bok-bok-bok. I just smiled pleasantly and left them wondering if they had imagined it!

I'm just really. I can't keep any animals or grow fruit and vegetables as we live in a fourth floor flat.

But I make up for it a bit at my parents' house in the summer - my father grows loads of vegetables and I do lots of cooking with them and it's great. And there are farms and smallholdings all over the place.

What about a allotment Anna? They are generally around most towns (and villages)
We had one until last yr,we've moved since (and 3 banty's in our terraced garden)and I miss the vegetables and the chickens immensly...*sighs

We're literally bang in the centre of Paris, no allotments for miles.

But we are looking to buy a country house (a ruin for renovation) which will have land. Not sure how viable it is to grow vegetables or have animals though - I once went to a friend's family castle in deepest Auvergne and they basically had a couple of serfs who lived rent-free in an outbuilding and tended the land and kept cows on it. Not sure we're going to go for that lifestyle though .

LOL, I read the thread title as saying "Domestic Godlessness" which just about describes the tip my house is at the moment!