I am shocked to see how long it is since I wrote on this blog. As we speak we are in our fifth year of barn ownership and second year of running a holiday let business which is becoming increasingly busier. We continue to learn about the best way to market ourselves and have ventured into Facebook etc in order to get our name about. We are very grateful for all the positive comments and feedback from guests, we rely heavily on this to know we are moving things in the right direction.

This year we have hosted to several couples celebrating honeymoon's, birthdays and anniversaries. We feel so privileged when people choose us for their special event especially a bride and groom!

On a slightly more sombre note the summer drought has been hard on the farmers, eating into winter feed and on anyone, like me, who doesn't cope well in the hot weather.

We have been living for the last two years with scaffolding on the house as we are having our house re-rendered in traditional lime mortar. Unfortunately the dry weather has meant the process had to be halted as it would mean the mortar dried out too fast and therefore we are truly grateful to see the days cooler and some much needed rain.

As summer days start to shorten we can hopefully look forward to a change of season which will allow the ground to recover. Whatever you are doing I hope you have a lovely summer.