Monthly Archives: August 2017

The packed program of special events continues through the Autumn and Winter at Ashridge – The following list will help you when organising your volunteering time-table for the next four months. There are at least fifteen events to consider – … Continue reading →

Our last post on harvest-time set some fifty years ago proved inspirational for one of our volunteer members. It triggered recollections of happy boyhood days growing up on a rural Herefordshire farm deep in the countryside. This is some of … Continue reading →

The wondrous fine days of last week have come just right for the harvesters. Although tractors with rack-reapers are not so picturesque as with horses, there remains a flavour of the sacred earth at harvest-time. The more especially in large … Continue reading →

A Country Diary 16th August 1917 A breeze which sets thistle-down flying across the lane shakes the wheat sheaves lightly; you can hear ever so slight a singing as it searches between the stooks and in the hollow of the … Continue reading →

The annual task for the volunteers to purge the ragwort from the Beacon hills before it sets seed and creates another generation, has taken place. Ragwort makes fields of gold, and to walk in them feels far more transgressive than … Continue reading →

One hundred years ago the men would have been walking the sheep to market, but here they are being returned to the field from which they escaped – the result of a careless walker leaving the gate open at Ward’s … Continue reading →