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

Spring is finally here - or so I thought until I got up this morning! After a beautiful weekend it is miserable and wet today. Saturday was spent at another Beekeeping Theory day, run by Ludlow & District Beekeepers Association. It was very informative and I can’t wait to get started! Next is a Practical session at the end of April.

Yesterday we had our first Broome Park lambs - a couple so that is a good start - especially as John says this ewe didn’t lamb last year! We had a Kerry ram so the lambs should be quite white with black faces. 5 more ewes to lamb - hopefully all with couples too.

My new pigs are a little larger than usual so will soon be ready to eat! Consequently they have been named, rather unoriginally, Sausage and Bacon!! Here they are enjoying the pumpkins left fro last year that have not been turned into soup.

Fortunately the weather is improving and I managed to spend an afternoon in the garden on Wednesday - repotting the tubs in front of the house, tying in all the raspberry canes and spreading muck on the asparagus bed. Still haven’t planted anything yet - much too cold!