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

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    • 05 Beacon Hill, Stockland
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    • 07 Churchinford – Bishopswood – Marsh – Yarcombe
    • 08 Pub Hike: Upottery, Churchinford, Bishopswood, Marsh, Yarcombe
    • 09 Walk up Beacon Hill to Dalwood and Stockland
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    • 12 Pound Lane loop
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Starting another ‘major 2025 job’

16th Feb 2025 leyfarmcottages

We started another one of our ‘major 2025 jobs’ this weekend, although annoyingly a drizzly Saturday meant we had to wait until Sunday and so

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A ‘2025 major job’ ticked off – Farmhouse front garden tidying

9th Feb 2025 leyfarmcottages

This week we’ve had a near-single focus – to finish tidying the Farmhouse gardens ready for the season. It’s our last ‘empty’ weekend which meant

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It’s been an odd job sort-of week

16th Jun 2024 leyfarmcottages

This has been our first week without builders on site since February 2023 (other than Christmas) and it’s felt extraordinarily quiet around the place. Having

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Making the most of a long weekend

6th May 2024 leyfarmcottages

Sitting outside at the end of the bank holiday, it’s hard to remember how the week started. We’ve been pretty lucky with the weather over

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Connecting things up

14th Apr 2024 leyfarmcottages

This has been a busy week all round. It’s also been a messy week for our site manager. Our farmhouse septic tank needed upgrading well

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Limited progress again

18th Apr 2021 leyfarmcottages

Another mildly-disappointing week, with so many jobs in progress that we’ve not finished much at all. Our big win was Stage 2 of ‘Project Lawn’

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