What a contrast to last year! It has been incredibly dry, lots of sun in April, and with temperatures in the high 20s it has boosted...

Our little orchard pond suffered a leak, so we had to create a larger one to take the various pondlife we were in danger of losing, such...

A couple of years ago we used a digger to clean out the mill race which had silted up. That pile of 'soil' became ideal potting compost,...