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Dec 11, 2020
2 min

December 2020, the end of a strange year..

Well, it's nearly Christmas and we are getting organised so that we can have a few days off. The rams are beimg removed from their ewes a...

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Pat H

Jul 1, 2020
2 min

July 2020, beyond the pandemic...

I hope this finds you all as well as can be expected and that you have been surviving lockdown as best you can. We sadly lost a member of...

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Pat H

Feb 21, 2020
2 min

Waiting for Spring...

Well, as we all know it has rained this winter - a lot! The ground is now saturated but at least we are much luckier than a lot of folk u...

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Pat H

Nov 29, 2019
2 min

Going into winter

Well, November has been extremely wet this year and the ground is saturated. It means that we are very careful with the land and try not ...

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Pat H

Sep 5, 2019
1 min

Harvest

Well, we're in September now and the harvest went really well in the end. Even with the very wet August our contractors, Cornbury Farm Co...

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Pat H

Jul 18, 2019
2 min

White Park cattle

This month we put our bulls out with their cows. I thought I'd give you a brief history of one of our breeds as they have quite a history...

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Pat H

Jun 13, 2019
2 min

June - and it's raining!

We're having a complete battle with the weather and getting the sheep sheared. We've managed to shear the commercial flock but the Manx L...

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Pat H

May 6, 2019
2 min

Calving

Well, the lambing has finished and all the ewes are out on fresh pasture with their lambs. Calving has just begun with a beautiful White ...

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Pat H

Apr 3, 2019
2 min

Lambing

Lambing is now well underway with our primitive breeds, Manx Loaghtan and Castlemilk Moorit, lambing first. These breeds have no trouble ...

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Pat H

Mar 2, 2019
2 min

Spring

The first signs of spring have arrived, probably a little early this year though. The snowdrops are all out along with crocuses and sprin...

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Pat H

Feb 1, 2019
2 min

Winter is here...

Well, the snow has arrived and put a stop to the building of the holiday let. However, at the end of last week the scaffolders arrived an...

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Pat H

Jan 9, 2019
1 min

The Old Dairy - groundworks begin

Henry Timmis Landscape and Groundworks https://www.facebook.com/LandscapingAndGroundworkshenrytimmis/ have begun the groundworks today an...

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Pat H

Dec 28, 2018
1 min

The Old Dairy

Our 2019 project is the conversion of an old dairy building into a 3 bedroom holiday let. As these images show there is a lot to do but w...

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