by Ian Berry | Feb 7, 2021 | Foodie, Village Life
Apparently, marmalade is the new “thing” to make as part of lockdown 3.0, succeeding sourdough and the infamous banana bread. We’ve been making marmalade every year since we opened the Long Barn. Jackie loves marmalade whilst it’s Ian’s nemesis. So, this annual task...
by Ian Berry | Aug 9, 2020 | Village Life
The Moors Inn is our local pub and is less than 5 minutes’ walk from the Long Barn. When we bought Town End Farm, being in a village location which had a pub was a definite plus. Every other place we’d looked at was far more remote with any pub or restaurant a good...
by Ian Berry | May 23, 2020 | Village Life
When we escaped to the country and bought Town End Farm, we knew very little about Appleton le Moors other than how beautiful it looked, and that it had a pub, two churches and a village hall. Plus, an odd little green and white building called the Reading Room. We...
by Ian Berry | Apr 3, 2018 | Village Life, Wonderful Yorkshire
We are starting a newsletter to keep you up to date with what is happening in the area, and in our mad village. Due to changes in the data protection laws we have to have your consent to receive these ( you can cancel at any time). We won’t share this with...
by Ian Berry | Mar 1, 2018 | Village Life
Since we moved here we haven’t really had what we would call a proper winter….until this year. We had snow early on in the season and now the beast from the east has arrived.The snow is amazing it’s just like the stuff you get skiing, it’s...
by Ian Berry | May 7, 2015 | Village Life
Many of our friends thought we were cutting ourselves off by moving to a village, how wrong they were not only do we get milk delivered… collect our own eggs….. you try and get this type of doorstep service where you live.
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