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...

Biomass goes live

After all of the disruption of digging the yard up to install our pipework, the boiler is now installed and heats the house as well as the long barn, the west barn and the pig pens.This is Richard, Callum and Chris from VG who spent a week installing our system....

Skiptastic

As a kid I had a toy dumper truck and always thought how fantastic it would be to really drive one. This week we have hired a mini-digger and dumper to dig out the floor in the West barn in preparation for the new floor. I can honestly say that after a day of rattling...