Monthly Archives: March 2008
Hedgehog Alert
| March 21, 2008 | Posted by Secretary under Miscellaneous |
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Looking after hedgehogs is not as easy as the TV adverts lead us to believe. Over two days during this warm November we retrieved two very small hedgehogs out foraging in the garden. We’d heard the current advice that such creatures needed rescue, so we set them up with meat cat food and water in…
High House Farm Brewery
| March 21, 2008 | Posted by Secretary under Visits |
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Friday 13th was not at all unlucky. Not only was it another visit for the smallholders but it was to a brewery!! Mr and Mrs Urwin provided us with a warm welcome, a fascinating tour and a tasty supper. High House Farm is a traditional non intensive farm with a mixture of arable and livestock.…
A Farm Visit To Hawthorn Cottage
| March 21, 2008 | Posted by Secretary under Visits |
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We watched the weather forecast the night before this event and a large black cloud moved slowly north and descended on Ashington at about 2pm with some lightning flashes just above Hawthorn Cottage (which could be clearly seen on the weather map on account of the gleaming new shed roof). It was therefore with wellies…
A Visit to Gyrwe
| March 21, 2008 | Posted by Secretary under Visits |
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On a glorious afternoon in May we had an opportunity to step back in time and experience life in the Anglo Saxon village of Gyrwe –Jarrow for those of you not fluent in Old English. Billy and Betty organised this fascinating visit which provided an opportunity to see two of their Dexters settling in to…
A Silkie Story
| March 21, 2008 | Posted by Secretary under Tales & Stories |
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In the summer of 2005 we visited Bob’s sister Isabel in Northamptonshire. She took us up to the field to admire her hens. Almost before the words “Oh aren’t they lovely” were out of our mouths, 3 little silkies were packed in a box ready for their long drive north to Newcastle. Of course not…