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Merry Christmas Becca, thanks for the videos in the last year. Looking forward to your adventures in 2025

How lovely! I did a breed study a while back, but it was mostly combed top. I love the carded prep that you received from your mill. Gosh, I’m so tempted to place an order. Do they ship to the US, do you 🤔 think? I’ll be following you in the coming year for sure. Take care and a very Happy Holiday to you and your family!

I am a relatively new spinner and have become so interested in learning about our native sheep breeds so will be following your spinning life with great interest Becca. Thank you so much and happy Christmas and a happy 2025!

Have a great festive season Becca….. Think of us downunder in the summer heat eating our fares 🙄🙄🤣

Love your channel

I am looking forward to seeing all those fleeces up close and personal. Do you know if, historically, they were used for clothing, given that many of them are coloured? I was intrigued to hear that you had a strong preference for the Ashford traditional over the Louet. I've only ever spun on an Ashford traditional, so I can't make any comparisons. Did you have a different tension system on the Louet? I hope you have a happy and safe Christmas and New Year. Oh, and totally off topic, I loved the china and ceramics on the dresser behind you in this video.

What a great idea to spin a new, rare bred every few weeks. The year I had balance for my word, the most unbalanced year I had, but I know you’ll do better. 😊 I need to give some thought to my 2025 word. Merry Christmas!

Thankyou Becca for taking the time to post yet another video. The fleece looks gorgeous, I can’t wait to see what it’s like spun up. Hope you and Andrew have a lovely Festive break.

I love spinning, it is my happiest place of all the things I do. My most favourite is wheel spinning but I also enjoy supported spindles (much more so than drop spindles). Have a great Welsh Christmas!

Merry seasons thingy Becca have a good one !

Hope you have a good Christmas.

Thank you for the very lovely trip. Wonderful to see a place I’ve never been

Poor Andrew,we didn;t see him : {

Lovely part of the world. A good idea to find a suitable comfortable, cottage to use as a home from home when going back for visits.

What a surprise treat down memory lane. We got married in 1972 and Weston Super Mare was our home for 2 years. Glad you got to meet up with the family after so long. Your posting are never boring as you always seem to find time to film whatever you are doing. Thankyou

Look forward to your journalling as I've just taken it up too. I feel my tiny cottage would fit in the garage I had when I lived in America, so relate completely to your situation, but oh! the temptation at Paul Sartori and the Garage Sale was immense!

Enjoyed seeing an area I’ve never been to. I can imagine so busy in summer. Thanks Becca. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I am regretting committing to Blogmas for the very same reasons. Here in Tyddewi our weather is very different, even to Solfach just 3 miles away. The land here is so beautiful this time of year, even when the weather is dire. Loved having this little visit this morning.

We used to live in Plymouth - and like you, avoided all the areas frequented by grockles in the summer, but loved having it to ourselves in winter.

A trip down memory lane for me! I was born in Somerset and knew the area very well. Haven’t been back for several years now though. Glad you enjoyed your break away.

The music you had at the beginning of this video really spoiled it for me, I have sensory issues with whistling. So that was a dive onto the mute button. Then the combination of camera and outdoor light flickered. After that, I was O.K., but it definitely set things off on the wrong foot.

This was such a treat to see the amazing landscapes. Thank you so much for sharing.

Oh my goodness, that cake looked amazing!

Hi Becca, it's such fun to see the Gorge through your video! Living in Glastonbury I come through here with some regularity, but I'm always the driver, so I can't look around as freely as you can do. It is truly majestic there and a video can never do it justice. However, since I know it, I can also imagine how high those rock walls really are and how wild it can look at this cold and wintry time of the year. Thank you so much for taking us along!

Great scenery, thank you.

Ahh something completely different 😊… but just as lovely .

Hello - I'm in the US and we call them thrift stores too. Now, moving on ... After fifty-two years of customer service (various jobs within state government), I retired one week ago. I've been sewing since I was twelve and have a beautiful room set up with everything I need. Working a full time job with a daily and hourly schedule, has caused me to lose my sew-jo. I just go into the room to sit and look around now. My desire was to sew everyday after retirement, but I don't know where to start. What ideas do you have to correct my problem? I'd love to get your thoughts. Thanks!

I am looking forward to join you at least on one breed - Though I am not sure if it is white or grey Faced Dartmoor. This Summer we visited dartmoor and Stades at Marylou who gifted me a peace of one of her Fleetes from Last year. ☺️🎉 She has a really nice flat, that you can Rent in the middle of the national Park 😍

Your lip balm looks wonderful. And I hope that's the last winter storm, you really don't need them.

Good to know storm left you unscathed was thinking of you this morning as we began to feel it a little too. Not anything like wind speeds you had but fairly gusty and bitter cold. Lip balm looks good enough to eat 😊.

Hi Becca, Your storms are incredible especially the big seas! Hope everyone is safe there. Hopefully the winds will drop soon for you. We have an open fire too but we only use it in the colder months where it gets down to single digits here occasionally plus firewood is not cheap either. I enjoyed your lip balm recipe and how easy it was to make. Would love to try it at some stage just for myself. Hope you are enjoying your book and staying safe there. Thanks for sharing.

It’s been really wild here in Conwy. I haven’t been outside.

I`m glad you`ve survived the storm. It was pretty windy up here so I did as I was told and stayed indoors. I lost power for a while, but it`s back now. The wind seems to be dropping now so hopefully that`s that worst over.

Thanks for showing us the lip balm. Really glad that you’re safe from the storm. It was bad enough here in Leicestershire, it must have been really frightening in some places. X

I've just found your channel and am enjoying your videos very much. You asked about other people's experience with processing fleece so I thought I'd add mine! I've been spinning for over twenty years, just for fun. My second fleece was a beautiful Gotland from the Isle of Skye which I prepared with a dog comb and lots of patience, it was well worth it. But what I really want to say is that, although drum carders are very expensive, they can change your spinning life! Maybe ask family and friends to contribute in lieu of Christmas/birthday gifts and buy the best you can afford. I rarely use mine for blending, just for carded batts to spin from. I'm very fortunate in having a sheep-owning friend who supplies me with fleeces regularly, therefore I rarely buy roving or other prepared fibre so i don't really know the price, but if you love spinning and processing fleece I'm sure you'll never regret buying a drum carder. If you do, there's always a secondhand market for these things so you'd probably recoup most of the money ( as long as you looked after it !)

Music was too much!!!

Becca, Got our calendar today from Zazzle. It's LOVELY!!!! Tell Andrew how brilliant the images are. It will be fun to see these this year. Very good customer service from Zazzle too btw.

Move your camera much slower, please.

Wadding to go between the layers of fabric is a lot softer and drapery, I agree with earlier comment what you have looks more like the stuff used to give bags etc structure. Love the video, other peoples charity shops always look more interesting than the local ones somehow. Congratulations on your haul🙂

I would make a tote bag with the wadding. It would be perfect!!

Hi Becca, I hope you're both OK and Millie is too xxx ❣️❣️🐕 That Bakery looked amazing so yummy..I live in a pretty small townup in Lancashire, we have a small Bakery and we're have a smallish Supermarket ( with a well known name) they have a Bakery, they make the best cream cakes..but plenty of other baked goods besides. I have a cracked screen on my phone, I'm having a new one, but its for Christmas. I know I'll be able to watch and like , but I don't think I'm going to be able to make too many comments. I'm letting you know, so that you don't wonder where I've gone. I'm hoping it'll hold out but I honestly don't know that it will. Your Christmas Cake looks soooo good.🎄🎄🎄🎄 I'll catch up with you as I can. Happy Baking and Spinning Special Fibre Friend 🌞🌞🍾🎡🥰🐑🥰 Take care and stay safe Lots of Love, Blessings and Huge Hugs to you and Andrew and Cuddles for Millie..Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🐕🫂🫂🎄🎄🏞🐑🐑

Nothing like a good pain au chocolat!