Pond Life
From the start we wanted a pond - but it takes a Covid lockdown to provide enough time to make...
Read MoreWe wrote a blog that described building Five Acre Barn, which you can visit here
This blog continues our journey - running the bed and breakfast, planting out the garden and, of course, discovering the beauty of the Suffolk coast.
...please join us!
Well its almost been a year since the last Five Acre Barn post. I realise that there are probably not...
Read MoreWe met Sasha French a few months ago. Sasha has a lovely bed and breakfast in Great Glemham - Crown...
Read MoreIt’s the start of February. Most gardeners would have put their tools away in the shed a couple of months...
Read MoreThe Suffolk countryside seems to be full of talented artists. It’s staggering just how many beautiful things are produced close by...
Read MoreSome of our favourite hotels and B&Bs, run honesty bars - you fix yourself a drink as if you were...
Read MoreWhen we were working with our architect we wanted something different that would stand out and hopefully intrigue potential guests. ...
Read MoreWe have some grand ambitions for the garden bordering by the guest sundecks - which will eventually become a deep...
Read MoreAldeburgh really punches above it's weight in so many ways. Two great illustrations of this are High Tide (11-16 September)...
Read MoreAldeburgh is fortunate in being one of the few towns that has managed to continue its carnival tradition when so...
Read MoreNow we don't pretend that the North Sea Coast owes much to the Mediterranean of Ibiza or the Greek Islands...
Read MoreMost people wouldn't associate our neck of the woods with contemporary music - for most its all about the classical...
Read MoreDuring the building of our new guest wing, it was a pretty much impossible to develop the garden. Any gardener...
Read MoreOur architect Greg Blee (www.bleehalligan.co.uk) asked whether we wanted to be entered into the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects)...
Read MoreWe have been very lucky in our three years in Suffolk to have been admitted as 'honorary' members of the...
Read MoreWe like to say to guests welcome to 'sunny Suffolk'. For the most part this is true, as Suffolk is...
Read MoreIt's hard to believe that our first guests checked in exactly twelve months ago - 8 April 2017 (even harder...
Read MoreWe are very lucky to have a public footpath at the bottom of the garden that takes guests, eager to...
Read MoreWith a much heralded blast from the Siberian Tundra beginning to make itself felt, it was tempting to snuggle up...
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