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Brand New Nesting Box Seeking Suitable Tenant
The current excitement in our world if not yet in the birds’ world, is a brand new nesting box, complete with wi-fi camera, recently bought from the RSPB shop at Carsington. We’ve been promising...
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Tom’s & Douglas’s Barns’ Green Conscience
You may well have wondered, yet again, at an uncxplained apparent absence of activity… The truth is, I have been extremely busy but not doing fun things like writing on the blog, which to me is sheer...
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The Peak District Environmental Quality Mark
“The Peak District Environmental Quality Mark (EQM) is a pioneering award for businesses that contribute to the conservation and enhancement of the Peak District National Park”…and “only businesses...
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Environmental Quality Mark for Tom’s & Douglas’s Barns - ...Receiving our...
...Receiving our Award at Haddon Hall...I am sorry to have neglected the blog for so many days. We have had a very busy time recently wearing all the different hats that we do and there hasn’t been...
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‘More!’ Demanding (Bird) Babies - ...Demand feeding in Practice, in the Bird...
...Demand feeding in Practice, in the Bird World...I am told feeding on demand is now (once again) the fashion and preferred choice for many mothers and professionals for human babies but it would...
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Apologies for The Long Silence - ...Back from Beyond? No, just back from...
...Back from Beyond? No, just back from Yorkshire...Believe it or not, life goes on as normal in Tom’s and Douglas’s Barns, and Orchard Farm too for that matter, although judging from the loud silence...
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Tom’s & Douglas’s Barns – Romantic AND green! - ...We're Even Greener than We...
...We're Even Greener than We Hoped and our Website Suggests ...Orchard Farm Goldfinch As many of you will know by now, we had our third GTBS (Green Tourism Business Scheme) inspection last Friday. If...
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New Garden Furniture for Douglas’s Barn Terrace - ...Now we're just waiting...
...Now we're just waiting for the roses and clematis to come out...Douglas's Barn new garden table and chairsFor the last year or so we have been saying we must replace the pub type table on Douglas’s...
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The RSPB Garden Birdwatch
On January 29th this year we had some very good friends, the Cartwrights, staying with us from Yorkshire. Like so many of us they are very interested in birds and encourage them in their garden; John...
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A Gold Green Award for Tom’s and Douglas’s Barns - ---We're quietly delighted---
---We're quietly delighted---Do you remember that we had another Green Business (GTBS Green Tourism Business Scheme) Inspection in March? The assessor had hinted discreetly that he was pleased but...
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Foraging for Free at Fischer’s
Fischer’s is a wonderful restaurant, and one we are proud to support. It has a Michelin Star and many other awards – but it definitely is not a place one instinctively associates with food for free…...
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It’ll soon be the end of the year at the rate this year is flying past, but we certainly have achieved already quite a lot in 2014 (but not, yet, the website…). At last we have our latest video up on...
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