Bridget
Bridget's Blog
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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...
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My editor said in a quiet voice that she might not have time to edit my scribbles in May as she was getting married. Surely she could do both? But I had forgotten what the word “wedding” meant as we careered into our first of two...
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Well, Christmas was hugely exciting with the safe arrival of a second granddaughter, Molly - and amazingly, the boys were let into Geneva to have Christmas together with us all. Molly surrounded by "special" welcome home toys...