Essentially Soaps Blog

Who agrees with me when I say that there is just not enough time in the day.
As I am now self employed making skin care products & other toiletries I find that there is just never enough time to experiment with new ideas.
After I have taken my 9 year old grand daughter, who lives with me full time, to school, feed the chickens and cleaned them out, then cleared up after everyone in the house It is then time to check my email to see if I have any questions regarding my products and to see if I have sold anything.
If I have sold anything I like to wrap it and try to post it off to them straight away which involves a 1 mile walk. It is quicker to walk than it is to use the car.
By the time I have done this it is normally time to pick up my grand daughter from school and feed her at that is then the end of another day.

I have 10 chickens which are all kept in a large shed which is in a fenced pen to keep them safe from foxes. They are let out in to the garden every day from 9.00am until 5.00pm to scratch around for worms & bugs.
I feed them a natural feed with marigold extract, corn &  all my vegetable scrapes which I boil up & add a little  stale bread to.
I do not use any sprays or chemicals just natural essential oils to clean out the hen house & I also use natural fossilised algae to dust them for spider mite & lice.
In return they each lay me one lovely golden egg a day.
My neighbours all send along their vegetable scrapes & in return they are rewarded with eggs.
My girls give me a lot of pleasure

My passion & my pride & joy is my motor home.
We started out with a home build motor home 24 years ago. My husband owns an upholstery business so he needed a van to deliver with. We purchased a Talbot long wheel base & fitted it out with a bed, cooker etc leaving room in the middle for deliveries if he need it.
We then managed to purchase a Dethleff motor home, but after only a year we swapped it in for a Hymer A class. Which is the motor home of my dreams.
We belong to the Motorcaravanners club. I am the secretary & my husband is the Chairman of the Sussex group. We go away throughout the year on rallies with our group.

I was a full time Registered childminder for over 26 years. I started childminding when my children where 2 & 4 years old to earn a bit of extra money. Then when they started school I found the job still fitted in with their demands & so I just carried on with it.
I planned to give up when they both finished school but unfortunately at 16 my daughter was involved in a car accident which turned all our lives around. She had a baby at 18 & was unable to care for her so at 6 months old we took parental responsibility for her & so I continued to do childminding.
My grand daughter is now 9 years old & I decided that it was at last time to give up childminding for good especially with all the ideas that the government had planned for childminders.