Here are some useful websites for guests who are due to visit in the next few days and who may be feeling anxious about the weather and conditions on the roads:

• Keep an eye on our website and don’t hesitate to ring for latest conditions
• Look on the Parwich website for pretty up to date information
• BBC Weather from Ashbourne will give you a five-day local forecast
• BBC Travel news from Derby will give you updates on road conditions

Tom with his ice sword

For the first time in ten years we have had two guests finding it difficult or impossible   to negotiate the final 200 yards up the slope to Orchard Farm All is not lost!  It just means you may have to trudge up the last lap on foot; if humanly possible those of us who are mobile will come and help with wheelbarrow and sledge.

Click on the Latest Weather Report post of 7th Jan for more details.