January Jobs

Making the decision to sell up and set up the Long Barn was the second best decision we’ve ever made.  For those of you wondering, our best was to agree to go out for a date together when we met many years ago at Leeds Uni. We feel very lucky to have made these two...

D Day – 10 years on

6 June 2013 marks a special date for us. It’s the day that we packed up all our worldly goods. The day we headed over to Appleton Le Moors and moved into Town End Farm. After 20 years living in Harrogate, and 30+ years working in the corporate world, it was the start...

A new bathroom

One of the improvements we’ve wanted to do for some time was to improve the Long Barns accessibility by changing a bathroom.  3 of our bathrooms have walk in showers, but all are on the first floor.  The remaining bathrooms have showers over the bath to give...

The Long Barn dining room

The dining room in the Long Barn looks very different to the space when we bought Town End Farm. It was originally single height with a bedroom over it. It had a staircase, but at the opposite end to the kitchen. So the room felt small and pokey. In fact we were...