May blew in as April finished – I think ‘variable’ is the right description for our weather. Scorching hot days were followed by torrential rain. Luckily, us Brits like a little variety in our weather 🙂 The plus side of the mixed up weather is that everything is growing really well out there – the […]
Spring has well and truly sprung and April duly delivered some really varied weather. We started the month with a serious frost which had us all worried for the blossoms that were out. Mid-month, for Easter, we had a full-on British heatwave which had all the pigs demanding wallows and then ended the month with […]
Come and join us at the Farm on Slow Pig Sunday. If you think all pigs are pink and live in sheds, you should come 🙂 Tour the farm, find out about Slow Food, meet the pigs and learn why they are rare and what is being done to conserve them. Then, try some charcuterie […]
As February rolled into March, the weather continued to confuse. There were warm sunny days where the pigs were turning over their water troughs to make wallows, frosty mornings with ice to break, sunny, showery days and full-on rain with strong winds – good old British weather – giving us plenty to talk about. But […]
Snowy February – that’s a sentence I can understand and we kicked off the month with a really heavy fall – a real blanket came down and covered the farm. It looked beautiful, was not too cold and didn’t last long, thank goodness – no repeat of last year’s Beast of the East. As always, […]
Thrilled to pick up an award for the Chalk Barn cottage on the Farm. It received a Silver in the Self-Catering category at the South West Tourism Awards 2018-19. We were delighted to be short-listed and then stunned to receive the Silver – seems we must be doing something right. Thanks to all our guests […]
After a crazy busy Christmas and New Year, the dust settled and we had a lovely review from our cottage guests over the festive season – always nice to get feedback! If you fancy a luxury break-away this Spring, check out some photos and availability HERE. The Guinea Fowl aren’t so keen on the super cold […]
The dust has settled on the festive season and it is time to reflect on the year just gone. As regular readers know, the weather always figures in my Farm Round Ups and the annual summary would not be complete without a quick overview. What a year of extremes it was in 2018. The winter […]
The nights are closing in fast – mornings too of course, but it is the nights I notice most because I have to go out to feed the pigs earlier and earlier – at worst, I’m going out at 3pm! But looking on the bright side, it is only 3 weeks until the shortest day […]
The days may be getting shorter and British Summer Time ended last week but so far so good – the Autumn weather has been behaving itself very well. After our year of weather extremes so far – the wettest winter, the Beast from the East plus the Heatwave Summer – I’m happy to report that […]