Bridget
Bridget's Blog
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We have done an “online sale”, well more than that we have packed up half a pig and sent it to Scotland. I say grandly “we” - I had some great intel on the Royal Mail and have learned a lot about insulation - all...
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I just had a run through last year’s Autumn blog - you need to look backwards to realise there has been progress. The main difference in the house from this time last year is that we have swapped our team of resident plumbers for a lovely...
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It was a lively start to the last Bank Holiday of May with seven Highland cows walking up the A684 at 6.30am with West Witton in their sights. Luckily, they recognised home - or the bull smelt some interesting heifers - and they trotted through a...
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Good news and bad - all the highlands have safely delivered their five calves. But with one heifer and four bull calves, we will only have one replacement for the herd in two-years’ time. Swinithwaite Highland Herd My...
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It has taken an eight-hour power cut and a gentle nudge or two to put the latest farming and family news on a screen. The power cut The plumbers took up residency in August to tear out the old and broken hundred-year-old pipes and...