Boscastle Cottages

Well our guests never cease to surprise me - about three weeks ago, the first phase of the digital switch over happened, to cut a long story short our Boscastle accommodation ended up with very few channels, no BBC and having to flip between analogue and digital to get channels. No one complained - thats just strange!

Harvesting and cottages

Well it's corn harvest time again on the farm, more specifically Spring Barley, we started last week and did a couple of days. We've been looking after cattle today. The self catering cottages are full as normal for this time of the year.

Well some detail about spring barley - it's tilled usually from February to May (March for us usually.) It it used by us for feeding cattle, for replanting next year, and other for brewing.

Self catering recycled

Well I've come home to piles of recycling - the new bins that make things obvious and explanation has ended up in at least a doubling in volume. This green policy seems to be having an effect, which is nice!

A camping we will go

Well am off camping for 5 nights. Finished silage on Saturday, at last, three weeks late at least and now for some fun down in the West of Cornwall. The self catering cottages will take care of their selves for a few days.

Farming today

Well it's been the turn of farming to fill today. We've been bailing arable silage or whole crop. Peas, Barley and grass. The bale grab broke three times today but we got it all finished in the end. thank goodness for some nice weather.

Cottage in a web

Just been adding my website to some directories to hopefully improve my google ratings, not sure am ever going to make my fortune from the process, but it is a challenge. There are alot of cottages in the boscastle area.

Bins, Bins, Bins

Oh well, just ordered the recycling bins today. To go in Cargurra Cottage and also the Barn, our self catering cottages near Boscastle. Arriving soon along with some good explanation should reduce our landfill greatly.

Recycling at the Cottages

I've put new information into all the cottages about how to recycle in North Cornwall. When we first started recycling at the cottages, we had to go to Boscastle to recycle paper and glass split into colours. Now the council does everything and provides bags, and even uses carrier bags to take glass.

So this afternoons task is to get some recycled plastic bins from The Green Stationery Company so that people have something to carry recyclables in and also a visual reminder because they have the logo on and are a strong colour of blue.