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

More Pigs

Catherine Evans — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:45:35 +0000

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!

Cleobury Mortimer Beer Festival

Catherine Evans — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:59:41 +0000

Cleobury Mortimer Golf Club are organising a Beer Festival for the weekend of St. George’s Day - 24-25th April. Come and stay at Broome Park Farm, tickets for both days to Beer Festival included and transport to and from the Golf Club for £90 for a double room for 1 night.

Spotty Sponge Cake

Catherine Evans — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:08:57 +0000

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!

Outside at Last!

Catherine Evans — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:32:44 +0000

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!

Happy 2010!

Catherine Evans — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:15:52 +0000

Once again we danced at The Bulls Head, Chelmarsh to see in the New Year. The delicious mulled wine was just what we needed on such a cold day! This almost the complete side, including Musicians and Nic is busy arranging our first tour - to Normandy - in April!

The last of the turkey has been made into turkey and ham pies and the last of the ham is bubbling away at the moment as Cowboy Stew - very tasty!