This is the Website of Purlogue Green Farm

I've had this website for a few years, originally when living at Village Farm in Bleddfa (that explains the website name) before moving to Purlogue on the Powys/Shropshire border, and have only recently found a use for it !

I decided to try to teach myself a few website techniques. Initially just HTML for basic web page construction.

Then, as I found myself with a few sheep to look after I thought an "on-line" database for recording the flock details would be interesting. So, started learning MySQL and PHP. As happens with many of my projects, the Flock database gets to "nearly complete" and then, as I find more ways of doing things (or things not working quite right), I start over again. As I'm composing this page the 6 ewes are in the barn for lambing (so far 3 pairs of twins and 1 single have arrived, only 2 left to lamb) and I'm finding little tweaks I need for the database.

An update... 1st May 2008. All 6 ewes have had their lambs now, last one was Boris, born to Olivia on 28th April.

This has spurred me on to make more changes to the on-line database, adding a section for medication records - another requirement, this for the State Veterinary Service (SVS). And I'm going to create a "Diary of Events" too. I'd tried a blog for the diary section but found that was just too much and I'll just write something simple simple using PHP/mySQL.