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

I have had a professional photographer visiting today to take better quality photos for the web site so I decided I must bake a cake! He was certainly very impressed so I’ve decided to give a sneak preview! This is another of my attempts at an artistic still life, although I have chopped the tops off the daffodils.

Things are quiet on the farm at the moment but I am hoping to get some more piglets next month. The younger of the 2 cockerels has moved to my Mother-in-law’s as her cockerel had died, although John thinks there is yet another young one!

sweetcorn

The snow has finally gone - at least for the moment and it has been wonderful to get outside today. I have reorganised the bins with a view to creating a seating area by the back door and started tidying up in the garden. I started to dig up the sweetcorn stalks, then noticed some ladybirds hiberbating inside one of the husks so have left them for the moment - if you look carefully at the photo you will see one on the right hand cob. I have just pulled back some of the husk to expose the corn below in the hope that the birds will find it. Perhaps it’s not such a waste to grow baby corn and then not pick it after all!