Eeeye byee gumm! For anyone that came to our spooktastic Halloween parties – thank ewe for coming and helping us have such a great party – we hope ewe all enjoyed it!

Now, let me think what has been going on here recently.... apologies for this rather late blog (we are snowed under getting ready for Santa’s arrival on the 27^th November)!

Storms last week have caused slight damage to one of our barns. In fact we had to make an emergency call to Simon (that’s ‘Super Strong Simon’ if you don’t know who I mean – if you visit the farm you can’t miss him) at midnight last week. We thought one of the barns was going to take off – so we asked Simon to hold onto it for a few hours. He did a sterling job and can expect at least a 20p bonus in his next pay packet. Every farm should have a Simon – although he does cost quite a lot to feed!

Farmer Sam and Farmer Durham are busy getting Rudolph, Dancer and Prancer’s cosy winter bed ready for when they arrive with Santa at the end of the month. They really look forward to coming here – it’s so much warmer than Lapland and they get plenty of lovely food from all the children that come to see them. In fact, Santa has to secretly take them for a good old fly every night to keep them in shape and stop them getting chubby before their very long flight on Christmas eve. If you keep your eyes open at night you might catch a glimpse of them in training over the skies of Fleetwood!

We have 5 little orphaned baby rabbits at the farm this month. They are drinking special formula milk out of a saucer and are very tame. They are a mixture of lovely colours and are growing bigger very rapidly.

We brought the cows in for winter last week – what a mud bath that turned into. Over excited cows and oodles of mud are not good for keeping one’s tweeds in good order. Eventually ‘Johnny of all trades’ got out his old and dusty lasso and Simon towed them in with ease.

The goats are all back together having been weaned from their mother’s milk. They still know who their family members are though and remain very loyal.

It’s all hands to the deck getting the barn ready for Christmas and making sure Santa’s stay will be as comfortable as always. We really do look after him – he has chosen to stay at the farm for 10 years in a row – not bad going, as he gets a lot of other offers I can assure you.

The cafe is already decorated and the mince pies are in the oven....

Ewel-tide Greetings and Seasons Bleatings from everyone at the farm – we hope to see ewe over Christmas.