OLD NOOK

The Original House was a prefab built in then 1920's by a vicar from the south as a holiday home - asbestos of course.

The last owner, before we knocked it down, was Tom Jackson who ran it as a smallholding. You can see his donkey, cat and hens on the picture. What is most striking is the lack of trees. Incidentally the donkey is buried somewhere in the garden but we did not find it during the rebuild so . . . . !

The big sycamore on the right, now registered as a notable tree with the Ancient Tree Hunt of the Woodland Trust, and the ash to the right are still with us. The others were cut down and stacked for firewood.

There are also two wells for water though we replaced these with our borehole.

No work in then garden today as our gym has just reopened after the floods at the Swan Hotel at Newby Bridge and R dragged me there this morning.

Time for another nap!