Another hairbrained scheme?

Instead of Jeremy Clarkson, I’m beginning to think I’m married to one of those blokes on tele who has a new crazy idea to make money each episode – hence the title of this blog!! One thing is nice; Chris is always trying to help the environment and the local area at the same time. We’ve been so busy the last few weeks and months (thank you!!!), and haven’t really stopped since harvest – plus I help Robyn every day with her soap and candles too – and now he’s thrown a whole new one into the mix of things to think about. I suppose I can never say living with Chris Hogg is boring!

This one is truly inspired, however I do keep tripping up on the name – I keep saying ‘your Christmas trees’ and he is very quick to correct me that he is in fact selling from ‘The Indoor Forest’. Well, this does make it sound like a huge expansive Narnia and not just a placeholder for the expansion of our shop. This is because Chris was so upset about the pumpkins, and knows that the people nearby to us do like to come and visit the farm, so we have cleared out the nearly-empty-shed to make it into an empty shed. We do have plans for next year but until then this shall become the perfect spot for an ‘Indoor Forest’. I must admit, I don’t know much about pine trees except that we (and everyone else)  have them and that Queen Victoria made them fashionable, but we really are hoping that a lot of people get excited to come and support us, even if they just want to walk around and have the ability to choose their tree whatever the weather!

In true Hogg style, we are also going to have a charity sponsored, Chris and I have been brainstorming a few ideas, like a ‘Guess how many pine needles are in the jar?’ or just a raffle! We are going to support one of the Christmas charities nearby to us, as we think that a lot of them do get forgotten and this Christmas people really will be feeling a squeeze. Last year we supported a local charity who make and deliver Christmas lunches free for people who are struggling or are old and on their own at Christmas.

Similar to the pumpkins, Chris has decided to make sure that the trees are very reasonably priced too, since he wants kids to be able to choose huge and fluffy trees to make their living rooms feel as Chrismassy as possible (is that a word?). Honestly, I’m just excited to welcome you all back, I’m not sure that everyone really knows how tiring, but amazingly rewarding it is to see mucky, smiling faces after 1.5 hours of pumpkin picking in fields that we’ve spent months working on. We may have worked on a shed this year, but I hope I get that same proud feeling in my tummy.