Local Scenery

I decided to stop and take a few shots on the way back from my daughter's swimming lesson at Chipping Campden last evening. We halted at one of our favourite viewing points down on to the village and it was a lovely, quiet, balmy evening. Unfortunately this leaves the shots slightly hazy in the distance, though the sun was shining and it looked pretty clear to the eye.

Chipping Campden from Kingcombe Lane

There are so many wonderfully picturesque spots in the local area, and I'm including a few of our photos. We might yet look at using some on our website.

Chipping Campden from top of Hoo Lane

Willersey Hill. Flat topped Meon Hill in the background.

At the top of Willersey Hill

Introduction to Animals I

This is Max.

Max has been with us since November 2007 when we had him from a gentleman in the local village of Badsey who felt he could no longer adequately look after him following the untimely death of his wife.
He has been a fantastic family dog since and we love him dearly. He was originally a rescue dog, and is now about 10 years old. We don't know his background, but he's clearly cut out to be an omega animal as he can even get bullied by our sheep and ducks. Pretty useless as a farm dog in many ways, though he will chase off a fox (from a distance), but he's a fabulous guard dog and barks a welcome to many a guest.
Loves: walks (obviously, but this is the big one), the kids, catching balls (which he is very good at), running back and forth outside the pig paddock and pretending to get upset by them.
Hates: fireworks, shotguns, anyone getting angry.
Oh, he does really love attention from invited guests as well.  

New website

Phew! Finally, got the new website uploaded last night and have spent today tweaking it. Still much more fiddling to do, but we're pleased that this site is much more along the lines of what we want to portray. We inherited our original site from the previous owners, and have made upgrades to it but it's not really been 'ours'.
Hopefully we won't see bookings drop right off now!
Our lovely friend Heather has been through the site with a fine tooth comb today and given us superb feedback with the benefit of her successful background in tourism. It's all rather exciting - well, for me anyway.
Next stage . . . get the Japanese site sorted [note to self]. I've started the translation and will shortly be pouncing on one or more of our Japanese friends to tidy it up and make it appealing to the Japanese market. 頑張ります！(rather untranslateable, but something that doesn't work in English along the lines of, 'I'll keep at it!' said earnestly).

Busy Monday . . .

Well, that's the end of Monday and the start of a new blog.
It's been a hectic day as I'm in the process of revamping the Lowerfield Farm website and putting in many ungodly hours to do it. We're pretty pleased with the result, but I still have a way to go to get it finished, and have yet to have some friends and relatives try to navigate around it and see what needs to be changed.
It should be a vast improvement in terms of what we can edit, but also in providing all the information we really want to have available for potential guests.
This blog is a part of the new approach.
Let's hope the subsequent entries are occasionally more enthralling.