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Post by 4wd on Oct 1, 2013 18:51:59 GMT
You'll have to attach it to the dog (somehow) & see where she goes! I can imagine her chewing it like a bone!
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Post by Joyce on Oct 3, 2013 8:19:17 GMT
That's pretty good
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Post by Joyce on Oct 3, 2013 9:15:27 GMT
Victoria - bought and now in jam saucepan
Last week and the plant is still flowering now
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Post by Joyce on Oct 10, 2013 17:00:53 GMT
A couple of days ago Iceberg beginning to climb Very bright and cheerful Supported by a rose
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Post by 4wd on Oct 10, 2013 17:55:25 GMT
Our nasturtiums got a bad attack of caterpillars as usual, but the recent warmer spell had them take off again and they have a late crop of flowers (or did until the 50mph+ winds today!)
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Post by Joyce on Oct 10, 2013 20:26:00 GMT
Our nasturtiums got a bad attack of caterpillars as usual, but the recent warmer spell had them take off again and they have a late crop of flowers same here 4wd.... lots of butterflies
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Post by 4wd on Oct 10, 2013 21:09:44 GMT
It's wild and autumnal outside so the stove is coming into its own again. Burning quite low with just one log on, it's 22C inside compared to 7C outside. This was fitted about 15 years ago now, and when fired up properly can run eight radiators. Clearview 750
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Post by wr on Oct 10, 2013 21:21:36 GMT
Drilling wheat today
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Post by wr on Oct 16, 2013 20:09:04 GMT
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Post by 4wd on Oct 21, 2013 9:44:25 GMT
Snape House Farm from Helmsley BankA good candidate for one of the most remote farms on the moors. Potter House next door has recently sold up and appears vacant (tenanted I think) so they are up here on their own with about 5 miles of single track road through forest back to Helmsley. The first mile is unsurfaced and quite steep, you need to be well stocked up to survive winter as it would be fairly normal to be unable to get out except perhaps with ATV or big 4x4 tractor for weeks on end. The road to Helmsley from Potter House Cowhouse Bank FarmWe bought a Zetor loader tractor from here when the last real farmers sold up - about ten years ago. The tin sheds have deteriorated rapidly; it did not seem a bad place at the sale. They had some land up on the good fields towards Helmsley and some quite surprising kit for working it in the sale e.g. large plough and power harrow. The fields still look tidy, I guess grazed by sheep from the farm across the valley.
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Post by 4wd on Oct 21, 2013 9:55:07 GMT
This gives an idea of the different world just a couple of miles south from Cowhouse Bank - some of the best land in Yorkshire with good sized fields overlying limestone and very prosperous farms. The area has been farmed profitably for centuries in part due to the stabilising influence of nearby Rievaulx Abbey and Helmsley Castle. All the autumn sown crops look just superb this year - so different to last year's washout (barley here)
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Post by rgsp on Oct 21, 2013 11:12:47 GMT
Mrs RGSP and I walked a circuit taking in Snape Farm and Potter farm a couple of years ago, and at that time they were looking fine, such that I didn't even register the difficult access. The inbye fields don't look bad at all, and I suppose you just resign yourself to needing a proper 4x4 most of the time, and being cut off occasionally. There are some well graded tracks over to Bilsdale, and I suspect a quadbike over to Laskill might well be the easiest way out quite often.
PS You've got me thinking 4WD - always a dangerous thing to do! Do you know Stork House towards the bottom end of Bransdale on the west side? It's just north of the hairpin bends on the Gillamoor - Bransdale road, but on the other side of the dale about where the trees start. It's been abandoned for quite a while, but is absolutely beautifully built from fully dressed local stone, and worth something just for its architecture, as well as being a fine place to live and keep livestock in summer at least. There is a track up to the Bransdale west side road, but it's pretty poor, and I suspect the original access was across a bridge to Bransdale east side, where there is a good hard vehicle track slowly disappearing into the grass right down to the river.
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Post by 4wd on Nov 5, 2013 17:02:10 GMT
Douthwaite Dale near Kirkbymoorside today.
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Post by 4wd on Nov 5, 2013 17:18:37 GMT
Farndale today.
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Post by 4wd on Nov 12, 2013 16:36:49 GMT
Nell found a warm spot But this afternoon the gamekeepers fogged out her sun by trying to burn heather (rather unsuccessfully)
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