Post Bluebells and running Roe Deer

Well what wonderful weather we have had all week! Up until now...

We have been really busy up here with full occupancy of our holiday cottages. Its great to be able to hang the washing out to dry as much as we can, and obviously this also helps toward our continuing ethic of being environmentally friendly. 

Bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) by C Whitling

Poachers Hideaway friend Chris Whitling photographed our amazing crop of Bluebells this year.
They have died off now but lots of other beautiful wild flowers are making their way through the undergrowth, there will be many flower photos to follow over the next few weeks!

Down Bluebell Wood by C Whitling

A beautiful Bluebell by C Whitling

Poachers Hideaway residents Destiny and Leah also enjoyed wandering around the bluebells, Leah a keen photographer was directing her sister and resident Ringo to model for her... one of her clients managed to follow instruction!

Directing.

Ignoring!

Destiny

Ringo

Running through our wildflower meadows

The Bluebells have gone for another year but there is much more to see in our little area of outstanding beauty, we seem to have a lot of Roe deer this year (Capreolus capreolus)

We love dogs up here at Poachers Hideaway and welcome them all in our cottages. We have a house guest this week, Jenny a lovely black lab she enjoys bounding around the fields and playing with all the other residents animal or human!

Tractor Run Photo Special

Arriving at Poachers Hideaway for a spot of lunch

Poachers Hideaway hosted the Lions Club annual Tractor Run this weekend for lunch, and what a beautiful day to have such an event!
Over fifty tractors, some old some new left Peacock and Binningtons in Louth on a days run around the wonderful Lincolnshire Wolds, all for charity. They arrived up here at around 1pm for pork rolls and cake and parked on our camping site to take in the amazing views we have.
Lots of photos to follow...

 

Borders Pots and fishing piers!

We have been very busy up here at Poachers Hideaway over the last couple of weeks building fishing piers for our well stocked ponds. This will enable our disabled guests to enjoy hooking carp also...
lots of landscaping going on also around the ponds with seeding and various tree planting.

Our green fingered resident Bridget has worked wonders with the pots and troughs around the cottages! There will certainly be a mass of wonderful colours for all to enjoy for the months to come...

Each cottage is displaying a lovely bloom!

Fishermans cottage is also getting a makeover! Work in progress but much artistic landscaping going on..

A new arrival!

Our new resident

This easter bought us a new Shire Foal ! He arrived for lunch on April 17th!

The Shire is a British breed of draught horse. It is usually black, bay, or grey. It is a tall breed, and Shires have at various times held world records both for the largest horse and for the tallest horse. The Shire has a great capacity for weight-pulling; it was used for farm work, to tow barges at a time when the canal system was the principal means of goods transport, and as a cart-horse for road transport. One traditional use was for pulling brewers carts for delivery of beer, and some are still used in this way; others are used for forestry, for riding and for commercial promotion.

The Shire breed was established in the mid-eighteenth century, although its origins are much older. A breed society was formed in 1876, and in 1878 the first stud-book was published. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, there were large numbers of Shires, and many were exported to the United States. With the progressive mechanisation of agriculture and of transport, the need for draught horses decreased rapidly and by the 1960s numbers had fallen from a million or more to a few thousand. Numbers began to increase again from the 1970s, but the breed is still considered "at risk" by the Rare breed survival trust.

We have some beautiful bluebells up here at Poachers Hideaway making a fantastic setting for photographs!