28th August 2011

Wallter has found a lovely home in Gloucestershire.  We moved him last night into the holding pen.. He is such a fantastic pig.  He wandered in with no trouble at all.

So when Camilla arrived at 9.30am to pick him up, I was waxing lyrical about Walter's easy going nature. What I had forgotten was Walter has never been in a trailor before, and had decided he didn't want to!


We tried food , apple first, then nuts then double cream and egg (his favourite), but nothing would tempt him. We lay carpet on the metal ramp to stop the noise. Meanwhile the B and B quests were waiting for directions, their bill and some eggs!

Luckly Alan came to our rescue with his camera, so the whole event was captured. We tried to push him, not a good plan, we tried to talk him in, with encouraging pats and rubs, completely useless.

2 hours later, Walter decides he was really bored, and wandered in. No not really. I had to get in the trailor, and stick Walter's head in a bucket while Camilla and Alan pushed from behind.

The quests were really patient and understood the dilemma..Good luck Walter hope you love your new home. He has gone to Bay Tree Rarebreeds n Berkeley.

25th August 2011

Let me introduce myself. I'm Eloise and I've just done a week here at Sutton Mawr Farm and was asked by Mark to do the blog... so here I am typing with hands which have been well worked for this past week.

This is me. As you can see smiley face after just doing breakfast, up since 7am and walking up and down the stairs of the village hall, having a good old chat with some guests and interviewing Bert for my work experience booklet.

And this is me in the kitchen.... where I've spent most of my time making 5 loafs of dense chocolate cake, 3 Victoria sponges, 4 batches of welsh cakes, 3 batches of chocolate brownies, a batch of meringues and a Maple Syrup and Parsnip cake. It's also where I've been doing the washing up and cooking meals as well. It's also the home of the Sutton Mawr Farm B&B full breakfast.

So that's a few of the things I have done here. I've also been on exciting shopping trips to Costco and Cash and Carry (its a bit sad really getting excited about supermarket shopping but hey I like it!) I've also done a big online Tesco shop which was delivered the next day (I was so excited when it arrived I managed to spill a pot of tea down my leg!) I've also done the breakfast each morning as well as setting up for afternoon tea.

I got to greet guests most turning up between 2pm and 6pm and some arriving at 11.30pm. I've practised my language skills (Russian), tried my hand at chamber maiding (not very successful) and been a professional dog stroker. It is safe to say Dora, Rosie and Tiger Lily will miss me giving them 5 minutes worth of belly rubs every two hours!

So today I leave Sutton Mawr Farm. I'm glad to say I leave here alive! Only 12 burns on my hands, a few blisters on my feet, some scrapes on my legs, some skin missing from grating and only one serious cut. I'm blaming all on this on the fact I'm blonde and clumsy.

I have to say if you are looking at a place to stay, Sutton Mawr Farm B&B is the place to come.

Thanks and I'm outta here!


P.S.

Here are the piglets! Sweet aren't they! Six of them. Unfortunately the runt of the litter has gone but the others are all healthy.

Just thought I'd update the blog. Here at Sutton Mawr we are in the middle of brilliant sunshine on one side and a terrible thunder storm!

I thought I's just nip out and take a dramatic picture!

24th August 2011

Yet another busy day at Sutton Mawr Farm. So much going on with guests coming and going, pigs having piglets and baking for afternoon tea/ welcome. So today I thought I would share with new cake on the platter.

The Maple Syrup and Parsnip cake

This is the mother of all cakes. If you like carrot cake you will love this! It is the NEW Carrot cake! Here to take the cake industry by storm. Happen to be an avid baker? Your classic Victoria sponges with droop at the sight of this cake. It shows skill (not grating your own hand off) and sophistication (the complex flavours) all while looking home baked and yummy (the mascarpone frosting running down the edge).
Here at Sutton Mawr we decided we liked it warm and with a runny frosting (Its called Eloise (here on work experience) being too impatient to wait for the cake to cool) but if you want the recipe here's the link
Maple Syrup and Parsnip Cake

More from us later!

20th August 2011

I have just moved all the rare breed chicken in with the free range. I had to lock them in for 3 days, so they know where they are.

 Now they are like a big happy family and my life is alot easier as only have one place to feed them and collect the eggs,

18th August 2011

I have just put Dennis the ram with all the ewes, so hopefully we will have lambs in January 2012. He is very happy with all his girls!

16th August 2011

Ruby is getting so close to giving birth to piglet, she is massive and all her undercarriage is very swollen.

I have been checking for milk everyday as that signals that the piglets are hours away!

14th August 2011

Wales pulled off a much needed victory against England.  Rory brought 4 of  his friends to Sutton Mawr for his birthday

They had a mega Sutton Mawr Breakfast followed by a farm tour and egg collection. I was very impressed as one of the boys said "are those Dexter cows?"