Welcome to the Roses Bower self-catering accommodation blog! We are up and running with our brand new web-site, thanks to Jenny Gibson our web-site architect.
Bookings have been brisk this year with many of our regulars returning and lots of new guests visiting for the first time. Thanks to you all for coming and supporting us despite these difficult times. We are having our star rating inspection at the end of the month. Wish us luck!
11 Texel/Mule cross lambs born in February very successfully and our main lambing due on March 27th. We are hoping for about 350 lambs. Nightly checks taking their toll.
Log stove/boiler now installed in our cottage. Quite an experience for all of us. Very warm all around the house and lots of hot water. Chopping logs is very labour intensive, but undoubtedly can relieve some stress, if done with an axe. The dog and cats think we have moved to Bermuda and never leave its side. Sadly Poppy died and missed all the fun and, as you can imagine, she is a miss.
Horses doing quite well, although Razzy has a sore leg and is having to take things easy. Mia is now backed and being ridden and is bravely fighting off a mud fever infection. Phoebe’s foal is due in July!!!
Outside the weather has been long and cold, although we seem to have had less snow than folks down South. We are hoping for a dry Spring, so we can enjoy lambing.
Aidan and Christopher, our stonewalling duo, have been hard at work, since the beginning of November, losing only a few days to the weather. They have completed the 220 metres on the East side of the farm and they have rebuilt the wobbly stone wall behind the farmhouse which finally collapsed with the weight of snow. They will be completing a further 80 metres in April.
Will and Claire have been visiting regularly to help with horses and sheep and to practice living here on a more regular basis. We brought the ewes home today from Craigshield and the outlying fields for dosing, injections and some tlc prior to lambing. They will stay here until their lambs are born.