Cottages countryside location

What's happening on the farm, and around the cottage.

Now we are into the rainy season, our stream is running very fast and full but fortunately not as full as it did two years ago when the nearby fields flooded. The garden did need the rain, but not this much.

April was a wonderful month, more like summer than spring, with daffodils, cowslips, bluebells and lots of blossom on the trees, then came a gap before the summer flowers began to come out. Happily we got rain just when we needed it, but now the land is like a quagmire. Roll on summer.

The cows were out by the end of April and the young ones were full of the joys of spring, breaking through walls and fences to see what was on "the other side".

The rabbits continue to flourish, doing what rabbits do, they get everywhere, into the vegetable garden where they ate all the brassicas, and leeks, now hopefully all gaps are mended and is once again rabbit proof. I am still trying to find flowers that they don't like - daffodils welsh poppies and weeds especially.

Not a lot to report about the cottage itself but we keep trying to update it. The lane is now ¾ tarmac and there is now new fencing right through to the gateway, which has also been widened to improve access with better sight lines when exiting. Maybe soon we will manage to tarmac right through to the road.

Exact details of how to reach the cottage will be sent to visitors making a booking. The property is not really suitable for visitors who do not have a car as the bus which passes the end of the lane (440 yards away) runs only 2 or 3 times a day, although there is a half hourly service from the village to Keighley.