Chicks on the way

This is one of our fertilised eggs in the incubator You can clearly see some blood vessels developing in the egg, which is due to hatch on Sunday 17th of May…can’t wait. We have done OK, out of the 20 Buff Sussex eggs 13 appear to be developing and 7 out...

Poultry Partnership

Jackie has always wanted chickens, but we felt that the courtyard was not the place to keep them. Step in our neighbours Meg and Simon, they have chickens and in November last year we first helped out on feeding duty. Subsequent conversations over supper brought in...

Official Opening of the Boiler Room

Over the Christmas period we have had a visit from the Berry clan. Jean has not seen the boiler installed since she helped us out with a loan to help us buy it. So we hid a big ribbon behind the boiler room door and literally opened the door and handed her a pair of...

A Long Time Coming

We have had some grief from some of you recently that we haven’t up-dated the blog for a while! There is a reason for this, we have had a major job that we wanted to show from start to finish and now we can. We think the West Barn was one of the things that...

Pickering Wartime & 1940’s Weekend

Every October Pickering hosts a wartime weekend where people make an amazing effort dressing up in fantastic costumes.What makes this even better is that the steam railway get involved and there are different events at each station on the line.  A lot of thought...