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Assorted poppies and Echium We were very happy to be awarded the highest star rating for our cattery when we were inspected by our local council in order to obtain our operator licence and we like to keep the surrounding area smart and tidy and, if possible, make it more interesting. We’re very lucky toContinue reading “Around the Cattery”

Clarissa is an elderly Pekin bantam that we were given a couple of years ago by some friends. She was their final remaining hen and was getting lonely without company. She’s a lovely, friendly girl and wanted so much to be a mummy that she sat in the coop for weeks on end despite ourContinue reading “Clarissa gets into her Nest”

We had a lovely dinner tonight, veg lasagne with our own onions, garlic, courgettes, carrots, tomatoes and beans and this lovely cake to finish. We currently have a glut of courgettes so we are using them in every dish. Courgette porridge for breakfast anyone?!!

We’re Annie (mother) and Hannah (daughter) and we live in the beautiful Lincolnshire Wolds with our husbands, Tony and George. We’re slowly evolving into smallholders. We aren’t aiming for self-sufficiency and will probably never rear our own meat because we always fall in love with our animals, but we are gradually learning, sometimes the hardContinue reading “Hello”

Sadly, I’m not talking about red rosettes but rather the first time we’ve treated our Ryeland ewe lambs with Clik to prevent the dreaded flystrike and also the first time that we’ve had the shearer out to take off our Valais Blacknose wethers’ fleeces. We got kitted out in our waterproofs and Cliked Agnes, Audrey,Continue reading “Weekend of Firsts”

We’re certainly a family that likes water features. In fact, the first project we undertook after moving in was to build a raised fishpond from new railway sleepers. Tony is currently halfway through building a small formal pond and rill but we also inherited two ponds which are the bane of our lives. Both pondsContinue reading “Big Pond, Big Problem”