Category: Country Life

Walking the policies

The first walk of the policies since we got back from our holiday. The Ivytree Field is starting to look really good now and it won’t be too long before the grass is ready for its silage cut….


Walking the Policies

Stuff is really starting to grow at Stonewalls now. We have this Blue thing up in the Meadow Field. Teasels in the Paddock. Lots of Greater Stitchwort in the Pipe and Ivytree Fields. …and the first sighting of Red Clover in the Ivytree Field. We are not sure if it’s our imagination, but we seem to have many more English Bluebells this year. They are dotted all over the place.


It’s silage time.

The farmers are making the best of all this nice weather with the first silage cut of the year. I’m not sure if this is early or late this year, as I didn’t note when it was done last year. Sand seems to think the first cut would have been around the end of April….


A tad more cement

Finished off the stonework on the windows in the dairy


Walking the Policies

The Sun shines at Stonewalls today, so a little walk around the policies to admire late Spring in full flow. The Foxgloves are now starting to flower, and the grass is really starting to grow in the Top Field….


a bit of logging.

That Leylandii really has to go, especially as there is an Elm Type tree behind it. With a judicious use of the loppers and it’s gone….