There's a certain irony about encouraging people to come and stay 'whatever the weather' and then having rain stop play when you're trying to get the site ship shape for the year ahead. But it's the nature of the game. Literally.
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But on a day to day level I'm on a mission to encourage folks to try a glamping short break NO MATTER WHAT THE WEATHER! The old adage - 'there's no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing', applies.
Read MoreWe're almost at the end of January and many of us are now coping with KonMari. This isn't a winter afflication like the Norovirus (although my husband would argue its effects are as extreme and uncomfortable)...
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As regular visitors to the farm will know, we have three dogs. There’s Mabel. Stroppy, 11 years old, a Border Terrier whose main joys in life are a) treats b) tummy rubs c) barking at nothing and d) washing the other dogs’ faces...
Read MoreI am a natural with dogs. I have the calm, haughty authority of the alpha male. Look at the wolf leader – that’s me.
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I think I am close to becoming a Zen master. Mrs B – scoffs at this, but, poor thing, she’s still trapped in the here and now, a slave to the mundane practicalities of life, while I am definitely on a higher plane.
Read MoreA Georgian sand shaker, a cast iron model 24lb artillery piece, a rather rude statue of Greek men wrestling, a 1980s brick shaped mobile phone, a WW2 officers’ compass, a metal AA badge, a (full) tin of corned beef from 1935….these, and other relics, are my life. On a shelf. To which more than six decades of memories have been relegated by the Curator of the House – Mrs B. She has called it ‘The Museum of Crap.’
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There has been a Boxer shaped hole in our lives for just over a year, when we lost the love of our lives, Dottie. There’ll never be another Dottie, but a couple of weeks ago, Tilly arrived, and we have another Boxer in our lives.
Read MoreI've not updated you on Tonka for a while. Tonka, for those of you who don't know, is the immigrant Greek Marginated tortoise who, we suspect, travelled all the way from his homeland after the devastating tortoise wars of 1965, made it over the channel by hiding in someone’s suitcase, then landed up in our garden
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We look forward to welcoming you to Swallowtail Hill. If you’d like to have a chat about your stay then do get in touch, or you can find out more and make a booking using the links below.
Swallowtail Hill Limited: Upscale Glamping Accommodation and Facilities.
The 2018/19 project was to upscale the glamping accommodation and facilities at Swallowtail Hill Farm, Hobbs Lane, Beckley, East Sussex, TN31 6TT.
It is part funded by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development.
