Wedding planning, flats searching, job searching

Okay so I know it has been a long time since I blogged and my title is the reason for this,I know it looks all grown up and boring, and to be honest it feels pretty awful. If you have every been without money you will know what I mean, the system of living is revolved around money, you don't have a choice, even if you wanted to separate yourself completely from society you cannot do this without money, it doesn't matter who you are, we are essentially controlled by someone else's idea and in this country there seems to be no getting out. I am an idealist, and if I could live having as little to do with the system as possible I like to believe I would, but we need a roof over our head, food in our belly and we are as much as we love to get out there on the edge we are 'creatures of comfort'. I like to be snuggled in a warm bed with a nice hot cuppa (shocking I know) I like to come in out of the freezing winter winds and stand next to a radiator and as bad as this may sound sometimes I feel like being lazy, pajama days in front of the TV can even appeal to me. So could I really live out side the system? I rant about it, I dislike it, yet honestly I am not sure if I would be able to last forever living out in the sticks with nothing to go on except my own steam. So the only option I have left myself, is to beat the system at it's own game, and here are some possible ideas, make my own company, invest in property and/or gold, stop using the banks as much as I can, stop using the supermarkets,  help Brandon invent a machine that can power out house (if we ever get one) for free forever, dig a bore hole for fresh water (But I have found out you do pay tax on that, unbelievable) there is one problem, tax, I don't agree with the amount we get taxed, for one, who actually gets to decide where it goes? I mean I love the fact we have set up the NHS and I believe we should definitely all pay towards fixing up the roads and emptying bins and rubbish disposal. but I recently found out, they charge you about 86 pence tax per letre of  fuel now I'm no expert but that sounds like extremely high, where does all that money go? So, I have actually  gone completely of track, what I really want to say is my fiance and I are looking for a flat in the wiltshire area, we are still getting married, we are still running PPS (www.Pheifferprop.com) and I want to start blogging more regularly, foraging has come to quite a stand still, due to winter and business, but I am very keen to get back out there.

Wedding dress shopping halting foraging

Okay, so now I am beginning to learn that shopping for a wedding dress is quite difficult. Dresses are beautiful, wedding dresses make you feel like an absolute princess. I have been to two shops so far, and have found it an incredible challenge. Although, the first dress I tried on was lovely, absolutely me, it seems to hold beauty and nature if that is at all possible, but the prices of wedding dresses are crazy, the wedding dress I like is £633. Now it has lace and detail and everything you associate with expensive, but I still feel like that is a lot of money to spend on a dress, and that isn't even including having it altered. So at the moment foraging seems to have halted, the cold weather has been part of that, Brandon's had a few days of work, the only thing we have done foraging wise is siphon the wine into different containers before we siphon them into bottles. So it has been very quiet on the foraging front. We are off to Bristol to do some winter shopping today, I am not usually a fan of shopping, but I like shopping for jumpers and jackets, that I find fun. So, so far, shopping for a dress, fun, but hard work, foraging, standing a bit still in it's tracks. I am realising preparing for a wedding and doing your passions can be two very hard things to balance.

Planting flowers, foraging and brewing

We have two elderberry ports and elderberry wine on the go at the moment, I will be brewing another elderberry wine this morning and we will be transferring the other wine in to a demijohn tonight, it is all very exciting. I was planting some flowers for my nan yesterday, I do her garden once a week and it brings me great pleasure, although I know almost nothing about flowers being out side brings the best into me, I love being in nature, touching looking, smelling. My nan who we have called dee dee before I was even around, also feeds me and my fiance up to the max, pies, fruit, cakes it is quite phenomenal. After that Brandon and I did some more foraging, we got caught in the rain and went under some trees for a little shelter, it is beautiful looking across the fields at the rain pouring down. We were in Lacock again and got a substantial amount of blackberries and elderberries, we then arrived back at my mums starving ready to wolf down her bacon and cheese flan, garden peas and potato waffles followed by my little sister Beth's delicious forked biscuits. All in all it was a fantastic day, although Brandon does seem to be showing a few flu like symptoms, we are praying it doesn't come to anything, we are off to Glastonbury tomorrow to a mind, body, spirit fare to sell fair trade products from India such as bags, it is all to do with a company called Freeset who give women prostitutes a chance to earn as much money by making bags and clothes. So we will be staying the weeks end in Brandon's van with our friend Helen, hopefully Brandon won't be suffering while we are there.

Mushrooms and smoothie

I have put those too things together in this blogging title but they aren't actually directly related (although a mushroom smoothie may be interesting I have never actually had one) I just want to blog about them both. I have a bit of an obsession about the thought of picking wild mushrooms as my fiancee would tell you, as soon as I see one I get so excited, there is a yellow one on the tree out side my house. The problem is I have no idea which ones are edible or poisnous and although I have been longing to chomp my teeth into one I have had to resist because the little resreach I have done hasn't really helped me be overly sure which ones are absolutely fine to eat. I've looked into going on a foraging course but they're just so expensive. So if anyone has any information about mushrooms or foraging course, I'd be very grateful for input. Now the smoothie is just a side thing, we have decided to use the raspberries that we picked the other day along with some very lovely sweet apples we found to make a smoothie, which I am very excited about, we have decided to make it on my birthday which is this saturday, which will be then followed by a picnic. I am going to be 22, which feels weird, I always imagined I'd stay at 18 but here I am moving quickly through my 20's. I have great hopes for this smoothie and will share the recipe when we have found/made one.

Beginning to Blog and Forage

As I am new to blogging and foraging this will definitely be a learning process which I am eager to pursue. I have been itching to get my hands 'dirty' and get going with this whole foraging scene for a while. But what really began to motivate me was when my man Brandon Pheiffer proposed to me. Getting married feels me with an unending amount of excitement, and while discussing wedding plans we stumbled on a beauty of a plan, home brewing. Making alcohol to have at the wedding, now this poses a few problems, one being we have never made our own before and we could easily do something wrong, another being we actually have no idea what we are doing, so these next few months will I'm sure as well as happiness, fun and excitement, bring some frustration, annoyance and possibly some disagreements (lets hope not). So far we have had an immense amount of fun and I have some film clips I would like to share in the near future and some pictures of us the happy couple. We are based in Calne and have been foraging in Lacock, stockley and the surrounding areas. As we are on the road quite often working in construction  (PheifferPropertyServices) it has given us ample time to scope out some new foraging sites. So please, take a walk with us as we delve into this new world of blogging and foraging.