At last the weather is good enough for us to attempt to make silage! September 18th must be a new record for late harvest at West Ilkerton (usually we've made all our hay and silage by the beginning of August).

We've been to yet another Eveleigh wedding!

Nick, Hannah & Bill

Brian, Sarah & Chris

Jack and Harry (our Exmoor geldings) are back home after a summer spent with Vanessa and Philip Bee. They starred in a TV programme where an unlucky celebrity spent a week in a large field surrounded by Exmoor ponies, to see how man and ponies would interact. Apparently, it was extremely interesting! The TV crew called Jack & Harry The Chuckle Brothers. If anyone is interested in buying Jack and/or Harry, please let us know. We want to keep them here until the beginning of November, but then they will be for sale.

Well that's all for now. I've got to take harvest tea up to the workers (after I've put on my coat, scarf, thermal underwear...)

RIP Barbrook Post Office.

Barbrook Post Office traded for the last time yesterday. It was a sad day for everyone who lives in and around Barbrook, and especially for Sally and Ian Gunn who ran the Post Office for over thirty years. Our nearest Post Office is now in Lynton, a nine mile round trip away, so letters and parcels will be posted from here on Mondays and Fridays only in future.
I took these pictures of Sally and Ian outside Barbrook Post Office this Tuesday, before the sign above the door had to be taken down.
The end of an error.