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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
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    • 12 Pound Lane loop
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Tag: pheasant

Uncovering snowdrops

26th Jan 2025 leyfarmcottages

Another weekend, another day of clearing the weeds from the Farmhouse flower beds. This time we cleared the weeds from the snowdrop bank and under

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Studs are up

22nd Oct 2023 leyfarmcottages

The end of the shippon that will become our new home seems to be coming along nicely. The carpenters have been working hard and have

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Kitchen designs and lessons in roofing felt for bats

26th Jun 2023 leyfarmcottages

A busy week and weekend means our blog is delayed again! It’s definitely harder to fit in everything that needs doing at the moment –

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A weekend of moving stones (again)

29th Jan 2023 leyfarmcottages

We recently discovered that the yellow-coated wire stays holding the telegraph pole in our garden in place are directly in front of where the window

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Well it is RSPB Birdwatch weekend, after all…

31st Jan 2021 leyfarmcottages

One of the things that still amazes us is the sheer number of birds we have in our garden – and the crazy noise they make just hanging

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Halfway through so much, but finishing nothing…

26th Oct 2020 leyfarmcottages

Another weekend with lockdown postponing our visitors meant we had a head start on some of our jobs planned for later in the year. But even with a

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