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Easy access ramp
March 3, 2011
Accessible Holidays, Animals, Building, Derbyshire, Family, Farm, Free range hens, Peak District, self catering holiday,David laying it on thick with his trowel! This week David has been busy building an easy access ramp into the new Daisybank self catering log cabin, in preparation for our first guests and a photo shoot of our new facilities. It will be brilliant for everyone - wheelchairs, pushchairs, guests who bring bikes and young children. It was quite a challenge to get the gradiant as gradual as possible - there was much pacing up and down, placing sticks and string, measuring and calculating, replacing sticks and string, referring back to the Nationa...
Winning Watercolour
February 21, 2011
Awards, Derbyshire, Farm, General, Peak District, watercolour painting,Fabulous news about our resident artist Roger Allen, he has had his watercolour painting "Boy with a broken arm" accepted for the Royal Watercolour Society Open Competition. The painting is on display at the Bankside Gallery in London from now until 10th March 2011. Boy with a broken arm Roger's inspiration for this picture came from the formation of the background trees, which have already appeared in several of his other paintings. The trees are on our farm fields here at Hoe Grange in the stunning Peak District and the boy is our youngest ...
The sunny dry weather this week here in the Derbyshire hills has meant that our girls are back in action. Girls strutting their stuff! At last our free range hens have started laying eggs again - the first since the snow in late November. David was beginning to despair - they must have heard him threatening the cooking pot! Felicity...
Our two tractors used to tow the new Daisybank cabin into place last week have been back in action on the farm today as David has been muck spreading. Just in case you thought he never did any farm work I thought I would post up a few pictures! Filling the muck spreader in the yard The beef animals are all inside our large barns at this time of year out of the cold winter weather in our Derbyshire hills. It's amazing the amount of muck that builds up in a relatively short space of time. David has been shovelling and spreading for the l...
The snow goes on
December 3, 2010
Accessible Holidays, Building, Farm, General, Horse Holidays, Peak District, Snow,Felicity has been out and about with the camera now the sun has come out at last taking glorious pictures in the Peak District . This shows the drive and how we have been digging out each day, only for it to blow it all back in after a couple of hours. Hoe Grange in the snow Now the sun is shining we can put some salt down to try to get rid of the packed ice gritting drive The up side is that its great for the horses trying to loose a bit of weight. There's grass in here somewhere Mean while in the cosy workshop, Pete of Peak Carpentry is ...







