Sunday, June 2, 2013

The perfect Saturday...

Dave's birthday... BBQ on the beach... getting wet in the sea... village cider and pasty walk in the early evening, a walk around the outskirts of the village with farms providing essential cider stops along the way!















Thursday, May 30, 2013

Another sunny day

It's not nice to crow, however it was hard yesterday when speaking to friends in London moaning about the rain and generally grim weather when I was sat here...
The photo was taken from the terrace of Life's A Beach, a café overlooking the beach at Bude.

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Bude bank holiday weekend

It was a low low tide this Sunday in Bude, and this coupled with the amazing sunshine saw the beach swarmed with folk.  Some people clustered around the high tide mark, marking their territory with windbreaks...

While the rest of the wide golden sandy beach was much emptier... 





Friday, May 24, 2013

Monday, May 20, 2013

Pizza time?

The appeal of cooking in a traditional pizza oven is wide reaching, but can also be confusing for first timers, so we've put together out step by step guide... but don't worry we don't leave guests to go it alone!
collect a selection of kindling, softwood and hardwood

build a small fire and gradually add more wood

watch the temperature rise

look after the fire for two to three hours and spread the burning embers on the floor of the oven, and then just before cooking brush the embers to the back of the oven

Get a beer ready
create your pizza on baking parchment, this makes it easy to place into the oven (we have a great pizza dough recipe)

use the pizza paddle to slip onto the oven floor


close the oven door and keep a close eye on the pizzas

the finished pizza!  Depending on the heat of the oven it can take from just a fee minutes to ten minutes to cook.  You remove the pizza from the oven with the pizza paddle and slip it straight onto a board or plate.

Friday, May 17, 2013

King and queen of the castle?

Here's some pics of our new treehouse which is just fabulous. It incorporates a slide, tower, little room with table and chairs (for impromptu treehouse picnics) and a look out tower to keep an eye on mum and dad.

Come and visit!  Crowns, swords and shields optional.




Friday, March 8, 2013

Spring in our step

It's a beautiful day today at the farm. After last year's wash out I am determined that this year is going to be the most bountiful in the garden.
Cavalero Nero, Spring Greens and Cabbage trying their best
 
Chard still bright and going strong, lovely with cheese in an eggy quiche
 
Herb garden freshly weeded, dug over ready for spring

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Things to do, No.2

Surfing is not just the preserve of cool teenagers with sunbleached hair and the ability to walk on water.  We encourage all our guests to get wet, whether just borrowing or hiring a board, or boogie board, or booking in for lessons.  We recommend Big Blue Surf School for one to one of group lessons.


Monday, February 4, 2013

20 things to do when staying at Berridon Farm, No.1

We've been busy pulling together our guest welcome pack and have come up with our top twenty things to do when staying with us and having great fun illustrating them.  We'll upload up a new thing to do every day - I'm just not sure we will be able to stop at 20!

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Treehouse

Lots of fun has been happening this week as David and Jonny put the finishing touches to the new treehouse. I'll take some pics soon and post them.  In the meantime here's the view from the main deck.  Perfect spot for children to keep an eye on their parents, or the otherway around of course!


Friday, January 4, 2013

New website is now live

Our new website is now live!

Very exciting to see all the work come together.  So many people who visited last year said that they thought the website didn't do our site justice, and to be honest we quite like that.  We like to overdeliver to guests rather than promise a seventh shade of paradise that is only ever going to disappoint.

Anyway I still think the website steers to fact rather than fanciful fiction so we should still make our guests' day, but includes more information.

This weekend I have to draft up a Frequently Asked Questions section as this is something we've been asked for before.

Getting there....


Thursday, January 3, 2013

2013 is here...

...gosh that went quick!

We've been busy working on our new website to get up and running for the new season.  Bookings are coming in from old friends and new visitors.

Now I have to write a list or the lists I need to write.  Hopefully though it will be work for other people to do not me... not sure that's going to happen.