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12th May 2019
Thank you to Felicity for sending some photographs of their stay at Oldaport - looks like they had a great holiday at Oldaport!

Modbury Fair - Saturday 11th May 2019
Late Saturday afternoon saw the main road through the high street closed to allow the Carnival parade to go past. It was a great community spirit and wonderful to see the children and adults enjoying the carnival which saw some very imaginative dressing up!

Modbury Fair Week 3rd -12th May
Every year Modbury celebrates its colourful and chequered history at the beginning of May fo r10 days. This year is no exception, the theme this year was “Story Book Favourites”. Here’s a selection of the shop displays:

“The Hungry Caterpillar” 1st prize

“Alice in Wonderland” 3rd prize

“Alice In Wonderland” 2nd Prize

“Peter Rabbit”

“Peter Rabbit”

6th May 2019
Maisy took her friend Quinn to see the Bluebells at Wastor Woods! This year we have found some native white Bluebells which are rare - apparently one white bluebells only occurs in one of every 10,000 flowers.

4th May 2019
Went for an early morning walk at Wastor Woods with my dad, Emma & Maisy - lovely views of the farm and Dartmoor in the background with sun rising above plus a stunning blue carpet of Bluebells out in Wastor field.

2nd May 2019
Took Maisy for a walk through Wastor Woods yesterday evening - wow, what a wonderful display of Bluebells - best show they have produce for the last few years…..

1st May 2019
The countryside is looking fabulous with spring flowers especially along the lanes…. here’s a selection taken at Gipsy Crossroad:

22nd April 2019
Went to Plymbridge Woods along the ridge with friends on Easter Monday - wow, what a stunning display from the Bluebells - well worth walking to view the Bluebells…..

Love the above photograph of Maisy amongst the Bluebells!

29th March 2019
Spring has arrived early this year. Took a visit to the Garden House in Dartmoor. Lovely spring flowers out…..

26th March 2019
Most of the mums and lambs are now outside enjoying the sunshine. The photographs were taken early morning before the mums had their breakfast…..

17th March 2019
Lambing has been going well - here’s a selection of photos taken……

Just born with chickens supervising!

Proud mum with her triplets.

Love this photo of them sleeping

Our ewes find the chickens very relaxing when they browse around them.

This group are all triplets

All Twins - they do like cuddling up together!

1st February 2019
We didn’t have the snow most of UK had, only had a small sprinkling! Here’s our mums to be waiting for breakfast…….

19th January 2019
Enjoyed the walk at Storridge Woods near Corntown this afternoon. The size of the railway viaduct is something to see…

16th January 2019
Lovely sunset this evening

15th January 2019
Lovely to see the snowdrops out..

11th November 2018
Least we forget - we will remember them….

6th November 2018
Maisy enjoyed her walk at Longtimber Woods at Ivybridge. Lovely autumn colours out on the Beech Trees.

27th October 2018
Visited Rosemoor with friends and had a lovely relaxing walk around the gardens….

26th October 2018
Spotted this double rainbow over the farm….

25th October 2018
After a glorious sunset yesterday evening, we were treated to lovely views of the mist hugging the countryside…

24th October 2018
We have been having some lovely sunsets this month - here’s some photographs taken this evening……

21st October 2018
Maisy & I went out for a walk at Avon Dam Reservoir, Dartmoor with friends -

20th October 2018

Lovely Sunrise this morning….

3rd October 2018

Meet our new girls!

2nd October 2018
The courtyard flowers are still blooming well despite the fact it’s October when you would expect them to start fading!

28th September 2018
Went for a walk with Maisy to Barrator Reservoir this evening - meet this lovely Dartmoor foal at the start of the walk….

September 24th
Took a walk around the farm today, taking photographs of all the nuts and berries - lots of autumn bounty to view…

September 12th 2019

The Begonias in the hanging baskets have been showing off a spectacular displays of colours in the courtyard….

27th August 2018
There are so many wonderful walks around South Devon - Went to Wembury Point & Great Meadstone with friends where we enjoyed the lovely views of the coast.

10th August 2018
Went to visit Rosemoor RHS Garden few weeks ago for few hours walking around the garden and enjoying the selection of flowers. There were so many bees of all types enjoying the nectar from the flowers, so lovely to watch them.

9th August 2018
Went to Okehampton show today with some of our sheep. One of our ewe lambs in particular did very well coming first in a strong class out of 12 ewe lambs. Force, our stock ram also did well coming third. There was good number of exhibitors and very nice Lleyns showed. A good day outing.

Ewe Lamb Class - I quickly took photo while the Judge was at the far end. We entered two ewe lambs who are 3rd & 4th in this photo at the time.

Our Ewe Lamb who came first in her class. This was taken when we got back home, and she was standing very pleased with her achievements!

5th August 2018

Today we hosted the West Country Lleyn Sheep Breeders Club’s AGM then in the afternoon we held an Open afternoon. About 60 people attended for a friendly day out viewing our flock. Maisy did me proud in herding the sheep for the visitors to view. Well done Maisy!
Thank you to Chris & Karen for taking some of the photographs.

David giving a talk about the history of the farm and our flock.

Visitors viewing our ewes

Members guessing the weight of the lambs

Lambs used for “Guess the total weight” competition.

Maisy & I moving the Shearlings towards the Visitors.

Maisy herding the Shearlings to the visitors…

29th July 2018

Our farm barn was transformed beautifully over last week for yesterday’s wedding. Congratulations to Rebekah and Sam on their wedding. Rebekah, your vision of the barn certainly changed what was an ordinary farm barn into a stunning venue for your wedding. I would have never thought of using the water troughs into a holder for a lovely display of dried flowers! Here’s a selection of photographs taken….

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28th July 2018
Had a enjoyable day at Mid-Devon Show judging the Lleyn Sheep Classes. Thank you to Gillian for taking the photos.

12th July 2018
A big thank you to Andrew for putting up new panel fencing in the courtyard - it looks so much better - the old one was breaking up so am pleased it has been replaced!

8th July 2018
Had a lovely early morning walk with friends at Wonwell Beach today. Water is so clear and warm. I plan to have a swim this evening!…….

Here’s Maisy saying to Quinn “come in, the water is lovely!”

29th June 2018
Our hay has been baled today - Maisy certainly has been very busy rolling up the hay!

24th June 2018
We have been enjoying the sunny weather and lovely sunsets. Here’s some photographs taken this evening….

5th June 2018
The Foxgloves have been giving wonderful display around the farm and the bees have been enjoying their nectar…..

2nd June 2018
Our sheep are very happy to have their coats shorn and are now feeling more comfortable without their wool in view of the current hot weather! Here’s Terry shearing one of our ewes…

Sadly we don’t get any profit from the sale of the wool as the sale of the wool only cover the cost of the shearer and transporting the wool to cornwall.

1st June 2018
Maisy has been busy bringing the mums and lambs in ready for mums to be shorn early tomorrow morning….

28th May 2018

Our lambs are looking smart with their mums - I love the photograph on the right, they look very relaxed in the shade with the May tree blossoming behind them.

24th May 2018

Midnight has been taking her chicks outside and is proving to be a excellent mum looking after her babies. Can you spot Maisy in one of the photographs?!