Tag: DEER PATH COTTAGE

  • Its snowing and I’m thinking of Thomas Hardy (amongst other things)

    December 9 2010 I’m trapped in a snowglobe awaiting the shake that will turn the morning on its head and bring the next blizzard blasting through the valley. Or that’s what It feels like from my vanatge point perched on the upper step of the wooden style between woodland and field on my morning walk…

  • More Belties, and my Autumn Urges!

    New Belties On saturday, as we were heading out up to the Smoke to visit Jake and Zara for dinner, we were held up by the arrival of another fourteen belted galloway cows to their winter layback land in the valley.  All of a sudden the lower fields were alive with a herd of cattle;…

  • For All The Cows…

    This weekend seven beautiful belted galloways  turned up in the fields around Deer Path Cottage. to spend the winter, with 13 more on the way. The seven just arrived are Fi’s girls that have been doing a fantastic job grazing out on the heath she managages for Surrey Wildlife Trust. But it was time to…