December 2020
Many thanks to the five volunteers who are helping to rescue our apple trees. It has galvanized me into action. It is so easy to let...
November 2020
It's the first time since the apples were planted that anyone has questioned why or when they were planted. Year 5 St Nicholas School...
October 2020
After watching Extinction The Facts, it made me pause before I ran the mower over a persistent patch of nettles that I've had in the...
September 2020
How to look friendly behind a face mask? I touched on the subject in the last issue. But one month on and more experience my thoughts on...
August 2020
Villagers walking along our footpaths will see us busily watering our crops most evenings. I hope everyone has been seeing how well our...
July 2020
We have had Mia, my cousin's daughter here working for us since lock-down as she was supposed to be helping on a farm in France which...
June 2020
For our 'down time' we manage to get away from it all through lots of cycling. I always have cycled as my 3 boys were never very...
May 2020
Dear Ed, I feel rather uncomfortable writing anything as I know so many people are going through real hardships and face a bleak future...
April 2020
Andrew and I have been very lucky travelling very slowly, on bikes, 22-33 miles through Glen Nevis, Fort William, Fort Augustus to...
MARCH 2020
Once again I am talking about the weather. The winds we had last week were bad enough, but Denise (the menace) seems to be outdoing...