Well that's Christmas and New Year over for another year - how quickly did that go? Myself and Nigel have been ill over the past couple of weeks with colds and throat infections so we have been feeling quite sorry for ourselves! We had a good festive season despite illness and all the guests seem to have a great time. We were fairly lucky with the weather and had some snow over Christmas, but after heavy rain it disappeared over night, just before New Year.

The 3 bathrooms in the Manor have now been completely refurbished and look great, really fresh, but keeping their rustic charm!

It is now full steam ahead on our barn we are converting. We hope to have it completed by March, but work has been slow due to bad weather and various unexpected problems.

We are having a massive problem with starlings at the moment they are helping themselves to the chicken food and they are costing us a fortune! Will have to look at alternative feeder, one that chicken stand on to release the food.