New lease of life for our garden machinery

I was checking out a go-karting expedition online this month and found myself browsing the company’s tech blog. In it they were discussing a problem they had with the 250,000ltrs of fuel they purchase each year. The go-karts kept loosing power and then stalling. This struck a chord as a number of our two-stroke engines […]

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Accident in B2178 – driver trapped vehicle

Another accident on the B2178 at 11am on 14th September 2012. Involving a pick-up and lorry. The pick-up pulled out of Salthill Road into the path of a lorry. The driver of the pick-up was attended to by the ambulance service and had to be cut from his vehicle by the fire brigade before being […]

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Helpless then saved

I’m not sure I can remember ever feeling so overwhelmingly helpless or for that matter the sense of total dependency as I did on Sunday morning, facing a fire at Sennicotts. We had been camping overnight with friends in a garden in nearby East Ashling. It rained most of Saturday night and so on Sunday […]

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Two Oak trees down

A combination of the wettest April on record and strong gusting winds from the North took it’s toll on two of the ancient Oak trees at Sennicotts last night. We’ll try to make best use of the precious wood but it will take hundreds of years to replace them.

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Vegetable dilemma

Every year in the spring a single pair of wild Mallard ducks visit us. Usually their stay is for no more than 2 weeks. We don’t know where they come from or where they leave us for but we’ve become attached to their annual visit. Another sign of spring. This year however they look like […]

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