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Daisybank arrives at Hoe Grange
January 11, 2011
Building, General, Peak District, self catering holiday, Tractor,Daisybank arrives on site Daisybank cabin arrives at Hoe Grange on the edge of the Derbyshire Peak District, having travelled down from the Island Leisure factory in Perth, Scotland Rolling off the lorry onto tractor power...
A brief window in the cold weather has allowed work to progress on Daisybank foundations, After the digger finished yesterday and the weather forecast said it would not freeze until Thursday night. (You cannot lay concrete if it is going to freeze hard as it crumbles.) We quickly leveled everything up, set up the concreting boards and ordered 3 lorry loads of concrete for today. Ready to pour concreate Three Lorrys arrived at the alloted time and a couple of hours of back breaking work started. Pouring concreate with the help of a couple of...
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 ...
Winter wonderland
December 1, 2010
Accessible Holidays, Animals, Building, Farm, General, Peak District, Snow,The Peak District has certainly had its fair share of the early snow this year Anyone for Breakfast on the decking? Its bought our building plans to a grinding halt. We had to dig down to the road again this morning, through an average depth of about 20 inches of snow. It certainly makes looking after the animals more difficult, although the dogs seem to love it! Twix and Crunchie up to their neck in snow And as for our easy access cabins?? 4X4 only I'm afraid! Hopefully it won't last too long David...
Crunchie, our chocolate Labrador loves the snow and has been playing outside with her mum Twix (see our video below) and has been sledging up the fields with Elliot. Coco, Chanel, Tia and Maria the sheep wandered into the farmyard this morning looking for something to eat as the fields are white over, and the free range hens are definitely not keen on the icy cold snow - they took one look outside this morning and went straight back into their cosy coop - no doubt there won't be many eggs laid today! Whilst we are warm and cosy in our...







