It's official ...

We are back here again next year for another season at Coniston Park Coppice, looking forward to it.

Park Coppice in Coniston

Our first month here at Park Coppice had flown by. We have a brilliant team of 8 staff, which is needed due to this being the largest site on the clubs network. Still loads of work to to do to get the site how it needs to be, but the with the great team we have in place we will have much fun along the way.

Interesting times at Rowntree Park

Site flooding yesterday have given way to another blog:

http://flooding2015.blogspot.co.uk/

First harvest of the year

Good Bye Facebook

Hello again Blog 😀

Merry Christmas

We would like to wish everyone who follows / reads this blog a very merry Christmas & lots of best wishes for the festive season.

Love from Carl & Janet x

Winter work at Wharfedale nr Grassington

Where did the summer season go at Hargill House nr Richmond, North Yorkshire? We are working at the wharfedale site now until early Jan 2014. It is one of our favorite sites & feel very lucky to have the chance to work here. As the site is run by 2 couples it will give us chance to have days off during the week to explore the area & give 'the boys' lots of lovely walks - of course visiting the local watering holes too!

Waiting for Carl...

This picture reminds me of Steven Townsend's painting of a border collie which is titled 'Waiting for Stan'

Our bonny boys...

We are Wardens now!

About a month ago we got a phone call from our RM whilst we were doing winter work at Brighton, to say that we had been promoted & that we had a choice of two sites on the network - we chose Richmond Hargill House. Even though the site is just 2 miles from Scotch Corner on the busy A66 it's still a really pretty site with gorgeous views of the North Yorkshire moors. We run the site as a single couple, therefore work a straight 24 days but then we have a week off. We open on Friday 15th March - so here's to a busy season!

Embarrassing day yesterday

We've upset the locals in Battle already! Yesterday we went into country clothing with the dogs & Jake thought the small manikin in the window was a child & he wanted to play with it! He pushed it slightly & it fell over hit the window & it's arm fell off - luckily the window didn't break, we apologized & made a swift exit, lol.

Brighton

Today we all had a lovely walk into Brighton. The skies were blue & it was almost warm! We walked along the prom just past the new pier & we then headed into the centre, via The Lanes - which is very quaint & full of very different unique shops. After a quick coffee stop we headed back to the front & walked back to site along the beach. We walked just shy of 8 miles today & don't my feet know it!

Cromer

Our "Billy No Mates" pitch at Seacroft nr Cromer in Norfolk. Today we have lovely blue skies and the sun is actually warm too - only 2 minutes from the beach - grand as owt!

Holt and Sheringham

Today we went into the village of Holt just before lunch. It is a very quaint place with lots of high class shops - don't know why we went there then!

Afterwards, on our way back we called in at Sheringham, which is also a very quaint place but with the added advantage of being on the coast.

Clumber park

Last week we had a lovely time at Clumber Park, we chilled loads as that was the first real week of our time off. On the Saturday we had a drive out and ended up in Newark - which is a lovely town, lots of shops, cafes, restaurants and of course bars! Later in the afternoon Carl ended up in one called 'Just Beer' whilst I perused the shops in peace!


We also did lots of walking around Clumber Forrest Itself and got lost a couple of times, but all in all we had a relaxing week.

The picture is of one of the tiny streets in Newark.

Clumber park, Nottingham

We arrived safe & sound at lunchtime today. The sun was shining & it was actually quite warm. We have a good nosing pitch (end of a row) as we intend to chillax for the next week: just walking the dogs through the Forrest & not much else, although we may go to watch Skyfall at some point.

On our holidays

We are on holiday now until our winter contract at Brighton starts. We plan to tour down the East coast after we have finished visiting our families.

Tarns Hows

We had a lovely walk around Tarn Hows today. The weather was beautiful & crisp & there were some great autumn scenes on view. See all our photos.

Our boys...

Jake (stood up) & Ted!

Keswick yesterday

It was a beautiful day in Keswick yesterday, we didn't get very far very quickly as it was Teds first proper socialising day - ie to see if he liked the Dog n Gun & the answer was yes!!