Kate Pullen

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. 

Our Herdie and twin lambs looking unimpressed by the helicopter about to land a few metres from them (to the left of the picture). The fire helicopter came when the fell had been evacuated to take the gas man and…

At this point we put the dogs in the car and said if the fire came any closer we would leave. (it did, but we thought that the road would act as a firebreak) 

Me putting Henry in the car, Mike had taken his horses at this point and we had been told to let any livestock loose. 

I saw a strange thing earlier. A birds nest appeared to be walking around the yard. When I investigated a little bird was underneath it – it must have fallen out of the tree. I have put the nest and…

Basil sunning himself in front of the horses