Broome Park Farm, Farmhouse Bed & Breakfast Accommodation Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire

It has been a lovely sunny day here again today and the cat has managed to find a shady spot to hide! I have just managed an hour in the hammock!

Becky raised an amazing £591 at her cake sale, enough for her trip to America and to give donations of £133 each to WaterAid and Send a Cow.

Becky and I have spent all day today baking. Becky has been selected to attend a World Affairs Seminar in America in June and is being sponsored by the Rotary Club - they have paid her air fare to and from Wisconsin but she has to raise the £325 cost of her place at the seminar. So a cake sale seemed a good idea. It will take place on friday so today has been spent baking then tomorrow is all about decorating and packaging! Hopefully we will raise enough money not to need to do another sale.

Traditionally we always go for a family walk on Good Friday but this year the weather was so awful and Becky was away that we decided to go today (Easter Sunday). So today we have walked from Barnslands to Neen Sollars and back, partly along the River Rea and partly along the old railway line. All the banks are full of spring flowers - primroses, violets, cowslips and wood anemones to name but a few. All the hedgerows are also in blossom - I think Spring is my favourite season - full of promise for the year ahead.

The first Broome Park lambs of the season arrived last night - we were beginning to think our ewes would never lamb - they are about 2 weeks overdue according to John! Richard and I had to give a helping hand but mum and babies are now doing fine. Hopefully the other 5 we have to lamb are not far behind!