Stay and Walk at Whitehouse Farm

27/08/2024

A guest has taken these pictures of our garden

10/07/2024

Yeah! Orchids.

03/07/2024

A hairy rock has photo bombed Bill's photo

28/06/2024

Another visit to Jodrell Bank. Just 40 mins from us and well worth a visit.
Could be combined with a visit to Gawsworth/ Capesthorn Halls or Tatton Park.
Jodrel Bank is an easy and fascinating introduction to radio astronomy.
Excellent displays and cafe/s - best for coffee and cake. We took a picnic, which we had at the edge of Bernard Lovell's arboretum. There is a lovely picnic sourcing shop at Twemlow Green.

23/06/2024

Coming home after a lovely weekend away has compensations

19/06/2024

Evening on the Roaches.

10/06/2024

And after Tissington, Weaver and I went for a lovely walk around Osmaston Estate. Another model of a timeless English village. The pub at nearby Shirley is meant to be good. A lovely track joins the two villages via the lake and the watermill.

10/06/2024

Tissington is almost too pretty. It is timeless, with its Hall, quaint cottages, tea room, duck pond butchers, candle shop and church. It is the kind of place Miss Marple would live, working in the garden watching village life.
And talking gardens , the reason I go there is to visit the nursery. All the plants are tenderly managed and grown in peat free compost. They don't have a wide selection but there is depth. they have c 30 different types of Salvias and s lovely collection of Burnetts (sangisorbas). It is one of those places that just make you feel better.

03/06/2024

A few Whitehouse Farm residents

21/05/2024

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Hollinsclough, Staffordshire: A fox has forced a pair into the air as it snuffles for eggs, and they treat us to remarkable array of vocalisations

19/05/2024

18/05/2024

The garden doesn't come into its own til June. It's also looking a bit scrappy as I've cleared two borders. But today this group of periscaria and centaurea has made me hopeful of the summer to come. And my first ever proper Wisteria raceme. Only taken 16 years.

12/05/2024

Definitely Spring in the Staffordshire Moorlands. Perfect for exploring the paths linking the lovely villages of Grindon and Butterton and a lunch in the beer garden of the multi award winning Black Lion pub at Butterton. The Ash trees aren't in leaf yet so the landscape is punctuated by skeleton trees. Didn't see any oak.
Ash before oak in for a summer soak
Oak before Ash in for a splash.
Hope the oaks get a move on.....

10/05/2024

Tonight's Aurorae

10/05/2024

Tonight's sunset..

25/09/2023

Last of the late summer flowers for this cottage posy.
Not sure the achillea is the right choice though.

12/09/2023

Bill and I don't go out very often. For past anniversaries we've gone to lovely places, The Peacock at Rowsley, Biggin Hall, The Tawney at Consall, The Peak Weavers, Leek, Sutton Hall. All of which were lovely and in different ways special places for special occasions. This year was different, we just went out for a cafe lunch in Buxton. We wanted to try the new Vegetarian Bistro The Herb Garden which has had lots of good reviews. Luckily it was chokka, so we just went to our old favourite. Highly recommend lunch at The Cafe at the Green Pavillion followed by a Weaver walk in Grinlow Woods (no pictures). Perfect.

27/07/2023

After the rain the sun. Views from the field on Monday

01/07/2023

Late June / early July Ashbourne Festival, asbournefestival.co.uk . An eclectic mix of talks, visual arts, poetry, street events and theatre.
Last night we went to an outdoor performance of Twelfth night by www.illyria.co.uk in the lovely grounds of Offcote Hall.

22/06/2023

Over the past six months we've had some new residents at Whitehouse Farm. Weaver, Miele and Aztec.. There seems to be a theme

14/06/2023

Dimmingsdale, a short journey from here, is a lovely place for two and four legs in hot weather. Shade, water and icecreams. Best visited during the week.
Weaver the camouflage dog is in all these photos....

01/05/2023

Bill's come back from his evening Weaver walk on the Roaches with these photos. Weaver just about features in one and Whitehouse Barn Cottages in four (if you zoom large (and squint)).

15/12/2022

Wonderful walk in the Churnet Valley, starting at Froghall Wharf and finishing with tea and scone (wholemeal rhubarb and custard) at Hetty's.

17/11/2022

Haddon Hall Christmas Market. Today to Sunday. Perfect wet weather hygge.

11/10/2022

Red Kite.

11/10/2022

New visitors. At one point there were four. This one stuck around. A Red Kite day.

05/10/2022

the sheep's food is better than ours....

05/10/2022

Nothing like a dramatic sky when feeding the ponies.

14/09/2022

Coming soon to “Hettys” Lotus Biscoff Cornflake Brownie 🤎 Yum Yum 😋 Open 10-4 today and every day but closed Wednesday 🤎