Pickering Wartime & 1940’s Weekend

Every October Pickering hosts a wartime weekend where people make an amazing effort dressing up in fantastic costumes.PIckering paradeWhat makes this even better is that the steam railway get involved and there are different events at each station on the line.  A lot of thought goes in to the costumes, everything from evacuees to generals.Steam locoWe even got into the act this year with Jackie being a land girl and Ian a sailor.4 of us

Biomass goes live

After all of the disruption of digging the yard up to install our pipework, the boiler is now installed and heats the house as well as the long barn, the west barn and the pig pens.VG TeamThis is Richard, Callum and Chris from VG who spent a week installing our system. Deciding on installing a biomass boiler has meant lots of extra work as we had to re-roof the pig pens, put floors in, connect mains water and electricity. If you want to see some extra images and a video of “making the doorway safe”! click this link.