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Renovating beautiful self-catering holiday cottages in the Blackdown Hills in East Devon

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Category: christmas

Starting work on our one-bed cottage – The Cow Shed

7th Dec 2025 leyfarmcottages

Our builder arrived on site this week to start work on our one-bed cottage. We split the old dairy (the ‘shippon’) and cow shed into two – we extended one half

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A mixed week of maintenance, cooking, seaside and building work prep 

30th Nov 2025 leyfarmcottages

Another week and a few more jobs ticked off our to-do list. The external steel stairs up to the Games Room had started to go green

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Starting 2025 – Happy New Year!

5th Jan 2025 leyfarmcottages

And suddenly it’s the start of a new year, which also means we’ve been operating our business for four months now. It’s strange to look

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An early start to 2025 (‘s job list)

30th Dec 2024 leyfarmcottages

One of our first ‘Big Jobs of 2025’ jobs was to clear the ivy from the wall between our kitchen garden and orchard. Most of

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It’s beginning to feel like Christmas here

22nd Dec 2024 leyfarmcottages

Our previous guests left on Wednesday – they left a lovely comment in our guest book and were the first to buy jam and jelly

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It’s starting to look a little bit like Christmas

8th Dec 2024 leyfarmcottages

We’re typically pretty late in decorating the house for Christmas but as we’re now open to guests we wanted the place to look a little

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