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making sure it’s the right height!!!

It’s wonderful to have the dippers nesting again under the bridge.  They have nested under our bridge for as long as I have lived here and we feared that last year’s disruption would have disturbed them…  Fortunately they seem to like the new bridge as much as we do.

The end of a busy third week of being fully open again.. Thank you everyone for coming back and welcome new customers too. Thank you also to  Heather for not only painting our new sign but hanging it too!

Finally after 15 months we are fully reopened.

Cakes and scones baked daily!

Please do pop along and see us

We have had a cancellation for the week of 8th April… Please contact me if you would like to come and stay.

Bottle feeding lambs is always a possibility!!!

It’s that time of the year again..

Early mornings, late nights and rain!!

Mercifully much better weather today but no new babies yet, they save them up for grotty days.

I cooked the smaller of the hams today…. it’s huge! Ham anyone?

The boys have really got the hang of things now!  Made from local larch too.

As each day passes we continue to make progress.  Will and Jamie are busy making gates!  The fences will come soon and lambs are due from the middle of the month.

Did you see Life of a Mountain Blencathra? http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08f1cc0/life-of-a-mountain-a-year-on-blencathra

We look forward to seeing folk again this year… Do check out our vacant dates.