Easy tips – Cooking a tasty Steak and Kidney pie
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Easy steps to making shortcrust pastry let me show you how.
I love making pastry, let me…….
Mothers Day Treat – Free cake when you stay with us Sunday 15th March 2015
Free Victoria Sandwich cake cooked by……
Valentine Day Special – Romantic get away near Stratford
This year Valentine day falls perfectly on a Saturday. So you will be able to enjoy a long weekend with a an added bit of romance. Spend that little bit of extra time in bed and enjoy the fabulously and very comfortable French antique beds. Order a breakfast buffet to be delivered to your door and enjoy […]
Harvest
Well the harvest has come and gone. It was amazing this year. Dry but not too hot. Just perfect. The yields weren’t bad. Some fields that were planted early in the Autumn were then plagued with black grass, a weed that is difficult to control once the crop has been planted.
Radway Cricket Club play at Stoneleigh Abbey – what a delightful day.
I don’t normally write about the family but I couldn’t resist with this one. We all had a superb day playing and watching cricket. I did the later. The cricket pitch at Stoneleigh is directly in front of Stoneleigh Abbey, made for a superb back drop to enjoy one of England’s finest games. The cricket club was founded in 1839 by Lord […]
Spring really has sprung and farm life is good
Well what a relief. The farm is all planted with seed that will grow into a crop of either wheat for bread or barley used to make beer, that will be harvested in the summer. The weather has really been against us these past few years. It has either been very very hot and dry or very very […]
Changes to self-catering cottages – Sleeplate
January is refurbishment time and as we head into February we are finishing this years revamp. This year is was the turn of Sleeplate Cottage. It is now looking very smart with a new solid oak handcrafted floor, 2 new bathrooms and a refit of all the spot lights in the bathrooms and the kitchen.
January a fantastic time to visit the cottages – Warwick and Stratford.
January is a fantastic time to visit the cottages. The farm is idyllic as the landscape is often covered in a crisp white frost and the fields although dormant are coated in a green fuzzy haze as the small shoots of the wheat push their way through the cold and harsh soil as they start their journey. The red berries […]
Free Breakfast baskets when you stay self catering in January
Our guests this month are enjoying their free Breakfasts baskets. The breakfasts baskets are provided free to any guest who stay in January. However they can be booked by any guests staying at any time of the year. Priced at £25.00 for 4 -6 guests and £45.00 for 8 – 10 guests. The basket includes. […]
Burton Dassett hills is a two mile walk from the cottages and the beacon can be viewed from the farm. A lovely place to visit.
m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=122163034370269902&id=61558097080307Burton Dassett Beacon and Old Windmill, Warwickshire.
The mill was built in 1664 and blown down in a storm in 1946. The beacon was likely built by Lord of the Manor Sir Edward Belknap in the late 15th century as a tower mill and later used as defensive lookout tower in the English Civil War.
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