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May 6, 2010

Tractor ablaze in neighbouring field

Filed under: Roseland Holiday Sagas — roundhousebarns @ 12:51 pm

The local farmers have been hard at it recently, ploughing the fields and sowing spring wheat and barley. Imagine then our horror when we see one of our neighbours’ tractors ablaze shortly after 5pm a few nights ago.  We thought the worst and that someone might be trapped inside.  Fortunately, the local farm-hand had made [...]

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May 2, 2010

What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts

Filed under: Roseland Holiday Sagas — roundhousebarns @ 1:19 pm

So, the only airport open in the UK recently during the Volcanic Ash crisis was the one down at Mens Pants (aka Penzance).  Flights to the Scillies were going albeit intermittently. But the Ash did affect us down here in a couple of ways – not only were our cars covered in a layer of [...]

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May 29, 2009

And the mobile phone goes around and around

Filed under: Roseland Holiday Sagas — Tags: — roundhousebarns @ 9:24 am

We said goodbye a few days ago to two lovely guests from Plymouth – Paul and Nicola. We thought they had enjoyed their stay with us, but an hour or so after they checked out, we saw them walking back down our driveway – were they here to check in again?… Oh no, Nicola thought [...]

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