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Hedgehog house

Well, summer has now gone and we are preparing for winter. We have at least two hedgehogs who nest in the garden; we've seen them many times through the year on our night-time wildlife camera and various guests have spotted 'the big one' trundling through the garden at dusk John has just made a cosy house from logs and slates in the bottom garden close to where one nested last year so hopefully it...[More]

Felling a Scary Leaning Tree

Last Saturday was a rather nervous affair as we had the chunky trunk of the ash tree to be felled.     As you can see, it had a rather nasty lean - straight towards Ysgubor barn and so we'd had to make the decision to fell it.           Whilst Andre and Pip were preparing to bring it down, we paced round the house waiting. Then we heard the thud - two tonnes of tree hitting the ground. Thankfully ...[More]