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Peak Park Perfect
Another view of Tom’s & Douglas’s BarnsWhen Simon Tyler of Highlight Media produced our main video a month or so ago, we really wanted to give everyone a flavour of both our barns and their setting, so everyone could have an idea of what they ere coming to in the widest sense. We ended up [...]
Extra ‘Little Extras’ and a Hungarian Goosedown Duvet
Some domestic excitements, too, for Tom’s and Douglas’s Barns GuestsTechnological excitements may be all right for some – for those of us poised here at the very nerve centre of the barns at Orchard Farm for example – but may be of little immediate interest or benefit to anyone else. By chance, after a long-awaited [...]
21st Century Web Technology Advances for Orchard Farm
Lots of good IT news…Hardly a day passes without our realising afresh how lucky we are to live in such a beautiful spot; but we are fortunate too in many less obvious ways. There is a lot of support available locally for SMEs – small to medium businesses – and the tourism industry too, in [...]
More guests’ photos, and one from John
Leanne and Patrick, who stayed in Tom’s Barn earlier this month with their beautiful dog, Bailey, have just sent us a batch of five photos which can now be seen in the ‘Your Photos’ gallery. (I couldn’t resist sneaking in this beautiful water lily that John took this morning- it is the most lovely pink!) [...]
The Dovedale Stepping Stones Saga…
The ‘issue’ is showing little sign of slowing down yet, a week since the Stunner broke the news (so our blog readers were among the first to know – I hadn’t appreciated how up to the minute with the news we were!). It has since apparently been in most of the national papers and Simon [...]
Tom’s and Douglas’s Barns New Video
Our new video has at last been released on the unsuspecting public! Apart from self-conscious squirming on my behalf every time my voice starts we are very pleased with it and hope that you will all like it and find it helpful. Simon Tyler of Highlight Media, helped by his son, Mike, has worked extremely [...]
It’s not a health and safety ‘ishoo’
We wouldn’t normal accept an email from an ‘anonymous’ Hotmail type address from a member of the public without the author having the courage or confidence to supply their name (which of course we would never publish). You know who we are so it would seem to us a common courtesy to say who you [...]
Dovedale Stepping Stones – there’ll be a handrail next
…or perhaps a conveyor belt? We haven’t seen yet with our own eyes, but are taking some friends to walk up from Dovedale at the weekend so will be able to report back. According to the latest Ashbourne News Telegraph, the ‘Stunner’ as it is known locally, once again Health and Safety has gone mad. [...]
The Dowager Duchess and the last day of the 2010 Buxton Festival
Another Buxton Festival has come to an end. It was unfortunate for us that our Cornish/Devon trip took a whole week out of the programme but we ended well. Yesterday, Roy Hattersley, who had done so much as chairman earlier on to develop the festival by attracting excellent speakers and events spoke movingly and very [...]
Buxton Festival continues
Many more excitements at the Opera House since the last post…no less than two operas followed by Cherie Blair this morning, being interviewed (I think the expression is ‘in conversation with’ ) Dame Janet Smith, who is chairman of the Buxton Festival, and like Cherie Blair a barrister. Starting with the last, we were both [...]
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