Month July 2005

At the weekend, Kate and I moved a light sussex hen that had decided to brood a clutch of eggs in the undergrowth by the side of the road. This morning I discovered her with a few chicks beneath her.…

I forgot to say that Ian has put a website together for Bridge End www.bridge-end-house.co.uk.

We had 9 viewings! Gareth advertised Min House in the Newcastle Journal, and Ruralscene (www.ruralscene.co.uk) had just listed us, plus we had a viewing from our ad on acountrylife.com. The first on Friday were in with Gareth and said they…

I heard the baby owls for the first time last night, and again this morning when I was in the barn. The adult owls or have been very active over the last few days – well at least we have…

Sunday afternoon 

Sunday the fire appeared to have died down, however at about 3.00 it was really smokey again and we didn’t know what was going on. It was so smokey that Mike was thinking about having to move his horses again…

I have just looked at our Blog and the pictures really need to come after Ians post about the fell fire yesterday – however for some reason I can’t change the order so if you look at the pics first,…

This is what we saw when returning from Haydon Bridge. This is before the fire started to make it in our direction. 

Our house is at the edge of the smoke towards the bottom on the right 

The police etc looking quite relaxed before they had to evacuate the fell. A little later the road was blocked and there were fire appliances, police vehicles and a lttle worryingly ambulances, up and down the road.