All the hedges around here are discarding their untidy look now that everyone is out hedging. Our road down the hill looks very smart and marvellously wide, almost a motorway [...]

We are setting up an Alpaca Fibre Arts Village at the British Alpaca Futurity at the NEC on March 16 &17 2012. We hope that lots of people will take [...]

Chas's sister Ros got married on Saturday at Shapwick House in September. This is a rather splendid house that our happy couple hired for the weekend so the favoured ones [...]

It turns out that we weaned 17 little ones as I discovered when I counted them. They are all parked in the birthing field which has been empty for ages, [...]

It was pouring with rain but booted up we went off to the Bampton Pony Fair. Parking a nightmare but eventually we waded through the mud to this ancient barn [...]

Dual Carrigeway Apple and Ginger jelly is plastered on the jars of my latest foray into preserving. I scrambled up the steep bank of the dual carrigeway from Tiverton to [...]

We have now completed painting the front and one side of the house - the paint is called Cornish Cream, should be Devon Cream but hey ho. It looks considerably [...]

We've been toiling away making litres - six and a half litres - of sloe gin this weekend. The sloe crop is very impressive but sitting at the kitchen table [...]

The ARI conference had plenty of papers on camels. Lulu Skidmore, very big wheel in camels, made me giggle when she announced that she was much better at the back [...]