Cottarton Cottage

One defining moment in my life was a couple of years ago when Amber and I, driving toward Dartmoor , decided to stop by Ilford Park . For ...

 Recently I arrived at Cottarton with a box full of bees. During the last couple of hours of the journey  the buzzing from the back of the ...

There he was. Despite the high fence at the bottom of the field, the extra barbed wire, and my conviction that our field was deer proof...

    If you spend a night at Cottarton, you can be sure that the first thing that Amber will ask you in the morning is not whether you sle...

No one else seemed to notice. Certainly not the TV Weather Oracle who only a couple of days ago predicted more and more snow and cold ...

The weather’s rubbish! Today is the first day of spring, but there’s no sign of even a daffodil. For tonight the Weather Oracle predic...

Children from the Palo Santo Barrio are never very far from the house. If we happen to leave the front door open to cool off the house, wi...