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About me - angelborne

I am a Mother of 2 teenage children, a rabbit breeder and run a smallholding in North Cumbria, in the United Kingdom.
I have a love of all animals, and not only have livestock but a number of domestic animals too, i am a member of several organisations, including

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Politics, News & Issues > Trash & Recycling Why recycling works
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My Recycling Methods I am trying to run my smallholding as enviromentally friendly as possible, this includes recycling, reusing and reducing the amounts we use and buy.This is a short story about how and what I recycle and why?All plastic bottles, whether it be drinks bottles or milk cartons, I will recycle them by washing &... More..

Pets & Animals > Rabbits Rabbit: Behavior traits
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RABBIT HABITS. I started off with three females and two males four years ago, and it has grown from there. I have today 18 mating couples, ranging in age I only put two does in at any one time, and I only let them have a maximum of 3 litters each, and only one per year, any more and it would be in my opinion bad rabbit husban... More..

Politics, News & Issues > Trash & Recycling Simple ways that you and your community can help the re-cycling process
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Recycling - Made Easy What does it take to wash out your cans remove their labels and squash them for recycling.I have an old dustbin that I picked up a recycler, to place mine in which I then put into the car and take to the recycle centre, but I don't send all my cans to the centre I also turn them into worthwhile objects, ... More..

Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: A new life
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NEW LIFE NEW MAN Amy had been on her own for four years now, since her mother died from cancer, she had only had a mother, she never knew her father, mum had always said that he left before she was born, she had a good relationship with her mother, but now found herself lonely and sad. This morning was hopefully going to be b... More..

Education > Homeschooling Why some parents choose homeschooling
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Home educating.Home educating is something I have done now for nearly three years, when I moved to Cumbria from kent in 2002 I put both my children into junior school, in the hope that they would settle in and make friends which they both did.The problem arose when Samantha my daughter moved to secondary school, she was picke... More..

Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Self-sufficiency as a way of life
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Self Sufficiency & Me Its been a long hard struggle to get my garden into a working self sufficient smallholding, but now four years on I think it is finally getting there. My first purchase were my hens, and I have several since I started way back in 2002, and we have had many dozens of eggs since then, my second purchase wa... More..

Politics, News & Issues > Climate Change Climate change and global warming: What should we do about it
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How are you dealing with Climate Change ? We all know that Recycling pays a part in the battle against Climate Change but of course, its not all that can be done. We all have a responsibility for our own way of life, each of us has the ability and the tools to combat climate change, but it is something that we all need to tac... More..

Creative Writing > Novel Excerpts Novel excerpts: Supernatural
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red eyed illusions.chapter one : illusion or not? A pair of red eyes,stared back at malcolm he could not see a body, or hear any sounds all he could see was this pair of red eyes piercing into his head, what was this thing with red eyes and silent motion,? malcolm began to shake, sweat poured down his forehead, he was hot so ... More..

Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: For children
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Tales of speedy and spike Speedy and Spike were muscovy ducks, speedy was a beautiful white and grey duck who for the last 38 days had been sitting on eleven eggs, she was excited for today was the day they were due to hatch. Speedy had had babies before, but never this many, and she just couldn't wait for them to arrive. She... More..

Creative Writing > Memoirs Testimonies: Raising hens
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Our DucksWe have two types of duck on our smallholding, we have runner ducks, so called cos they run everywhere and Muscovy ducks which are the only duck not derived from the mallard. Muscovies will eat any insect, slugs, snails, worms but they will also eat mice but not dead mice, they have to be live, very much alive.I have... More..

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