We are nowhere as near along with our orchard as we would like at River View Pateley. The paddock at the back of the holiday cottage is...

Winter is harder on the chickens at River View. The water jug freezes and so do the pellets. Worms hide deep in the soil and on the worst...

We have six brown hens outside the bedroom window at River View Pateley. Children will give you six individual names for them, although it i

Steve has just put a small herd of Dartmoor on the field in front of River View Pateley. They have a with a job to do: eat off the grass lef

Eat your heart out Rio; Nidderdale has its own premier sporting event. The Nidderdale Sprint Trainthlon takes place every second weekend in

A lovely couple of guests who visited us last week left us a flower to remember them by.: "lychnis flos-cuculi" or, more simply, "Jenny". Je

We accidentally feed grouse and pheasants every time we put grass seed out on the lawn. (By my calculations, there is an attrition rate of a

With warmer weather, it is time for dogs and children to take to the river in front of the cottage. On the right day, the air rings with the

The field in front of the cottage is prettying up with wildflowers this month. Meadow buttercup, cuckoo flower and sweet vernal grass inters

Half of Pateley have been watching this brood of ducks since the little ones hatched in March. Great conversations for dog walkers and rambl