Welcome to Nan’s Farm-Inside Out
A simple journal of life – A work in progress
“The past is my lesson. The present is my gift, The future is my motivation.”
This site features an eclectic range of articles, from life on a small farm in Yorkshire to glimpses of the medieval.
An observation of life, a page or two of fiction and occasional re-blogs from respected WordPress colleagues also feature here.
Having worked in Education for many years, I’m now retired from a position that mostly comprised of managing and teaching computing in an English primary school.
Some years ago, along with my late husband, I escaped suburbia and moved to the country to a small-holding on the edge of a Yorkshire village and where I still live.
© SueW-nansfarm.net 2016
I’ve always wanted to visit Yorkshire, but have never made it that far. Your lovely images have rekindled that desire, although I come from Devon, so if I do go, I might need an interpreter( ‘cos down yer, us spakes differnt than wot you does up Norf). 🙂
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Handsome cattle — too lovely to eat. It appears those animals are free roaming and well treated. It’s quite different in many parts of America… although the bovine who resides in the White House is spoiled to the core (literally!).
I enjoyed your photos!
(PR)
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Yes they do roam free, within the fences of course.They are such curious animals, hanging over the garden wall like they do. Thank you for your comments, it’s appreciated.
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HI Sue, we have a field of cows by us, British Blues I think they are. When my wife and I go for our walk, the cows always come over to say hello. Such friendly, intelligent animals.
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Hello Trevor, having seen you on Gerry’s blog for a long while now, it’s so nice to finally meet you.
They are suchfriendly curious animals.
I love the way they look after each other’s calves. At the moment we have a few and when they are sleeping in a little heap, the mothers appear to take turns in looking after them. Thank you so much for your comments and for following, it is appreciated 😊
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Nice to meet you too, Sue. Thank you
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Trev I have tried to follow you but could not find the WP follow button! Though I think I may have followed Twitter!
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Oh, I will have to look into it, Sue, thanks for letting me know.
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I love to hear the howls and wails from the Yorkshire dales — can you identify where that comes from?
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Sounds like you’ve been watching Wuthering Heights! Though that said, it gets pretty windy here. I live quite high up and there are times that the wind howling around the house sounds like we’ve borrowed the sound effects from that film!
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No, this is Noel Coward. ‘There are Bad Times Just Around the Corner’, and that includes:
From Colwyn Bay to Kettering
They’re sobbing themselves to sleep,
The shrieks and wails
In the Yorkshire dales
Have even depressed the sheep.
In rather vulgar lettering
A very disgruntled group
Have posted bills
On the Cotswold Hills
To prove that we’re in the soup.
While begging Kipling’s pardon
There’s one thing we know for sure
If England is a garden
We ought to have more manure.
Hurray-hurray-hurray!
Suffering and dismay.
I see it was shrieks rather than howls. So, sue me. Oh no, waitabit. That won’t do: you are Sue. Sue; you! (I am developing a headache.)
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Just listened to it sung by the Kings singers 1977. I’ve heard this before but obviously never listened properly to the words! Thank you Leslie.
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Hi Sue and G’day from Perth, Western Australia.
You are a girl after my own heart, hilarious and down to earth, getting friendly with the cows too.
You have brought back happy memories of our trip back home to the UK and visiting our nephew living in Skipton, Yorkshire.
Is that Skipton Castle in your photo’s?
I am looking forward to stalking, oops, I mean watching your adventures and more ‘walkabouts’ and getting amongst the wild life
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Hello,
Thank you so much for your lovely comments.
You are correct it is Skipton Castle, at least the centre one is. The first is Ripley Castle near Ripon also in North Yorkshire and the last one is Kirkstall Abbey. Thank you for the visit and I look forward to the stalking!
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Hi Sue, I can hardly believe how small the world is! I too am from Perth in Western Australia. I read post by Jennifer Wilson No place for sheep. I liked it and clicked randomly on your avatar because you had liked the post, also. And there was a comment from my friend, Vicky Healing!
What great photos on your blog. Thank you. I visited Skipton Castle with my husband when we visited Yorkshire when my granddaughter was completing a doctorate in medieval studies at the University of York. We were there for two weeks and had a wonderful time.
You now have a new follower on your blog.
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Hello Maureen, How lovely to meet you. Even though I’m not Australian and often don’t know the people she’s talking about, I do enjoy Jennifer Wilson’s blog, she’s so bolshie and hers was the first blog I followed.
Yes you’re right it is a very small world. I’m delighted you enjoyed your stay in Yorkshire, you probably visted most of the places I talk about. Thank you so much for your very kind comments, they are appreciated, and I look forward to visiting yours. 🙂
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Jennifer Wilson’s blog entertains me and provides much to think about. I follow her regularly.
Not sure what wordpress is up to. Here is the link to my blog http://www.maureenhelen.com
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Thank you Maureen. Finally, I got there!
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I have always dreamed of living in a place like this 🤗🤗🤗🤗
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Initially, living in a place like this was my late husband’s dream. I found the house and was delighted it had everything that we both wanted. Now, all these years later I cannot imagine living anywhere else. Thank you for your comments B, they are appreciated. 🙂
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My pleasure!
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“Home” is looking beautiful as always, although maybe still a bit cool. We’ve been experiencing some bad bushfires over the weekend, west of here, near Camperdown, only 2 hours away, and we can smell the smoke in the air tonight. Awful for the farmers down that way. 40,000 hectares(100,000acres) burnt out so far
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Oh dear that’s awful Ivor. It must be devastating !
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Bushfires are our worst nightmares here in Victoria.
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I can imagine Ivor. I hope the fires are contained very soon
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Hi Sue, You mention the curiosity of cows, which is the subject of this poem on my blog. Thought you might enjoy it: https://judydykstrabrown.com/2016/09/22/jump/
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Ooh Thank you 😊 I will take a look
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I love the cows with the fog in the background. All beauties
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Thank you, much appreciated 🙂
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Great photos Sue. I remember the first time Maggie came face to face with a cow. It was a sort of stand off then it said Moo and she bolted. We were on a camp site and the farmer had said we could exercise her in his field provided his cows weren’t in it and we kept the gate shut. (other dogs had to be kept on a lead and weren’t allowed this priviledge). Neither cow or Maggie were in said field, the cow being on a blind corner in the lane having a munch.
I should hasten to add here that she has never gone into a field (with or without livestock) on her own. It was one of the things we trained her on as we heard the farmers here shoot first and ask questions later. She soon got known as that ‘well behaved black and white dog’ and a couple of years later people assocated her with us.
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Thank you very much. We had a few problems with our young beagle. When he was still small enough he squeezed under the gate and chased the sheep, fortunately a few confused ones ran in a circle; Woody thought they were chasing him and soon took off back home!
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That’s funny! We imagine a conversation with Maggie and a sheep (she on the road, the sheep in the field behind an electric fence).
Sheep: I’m a sheep.
Maggie: So? I’m a sheep dog and could chase you if I wanted.
Sheep: No you can’t, I’m safe behind this fence.
Maggie: Yes I could, but why should I? I have all this space to play in, and you just have your field.
Sheep: Oh.
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haha I like that one!
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This is my original post on that
https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2017/11/17/unlikely-conversations-spin-off/ and you might enjoy the post before that (tale weaver) and this one too Sue
https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2016/03/19/dog-to-dog/
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Thank you, I’m on it!
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Lovely to find your blog and although now in the Spanish countryside ‘farming’ chestnuts I have many links to Yorkshire and used to teach.
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So nice to meet you, I look forward to visiting you too. The Spanish countryside conjures a lovely image. Farming chestnuts, I’ve not heard of anyone doing that, how interesting. Thank you so much for visiting and for following. 🙂
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Thanks, it means we have lots of trees and then prickly husks. But as it’s chestnut time now it can be back breaking picking them too.
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Oh, so not as ‘glamorous’ as I imagined! 🙂
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Your blog looks right up my street
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Thank you Derrick, what a kind comment. Welcome to my world and thank you so much for joining me here.
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Uplifting photos. Very big smile 🙂
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Thank you calling in here and thank you also for your very kind comments 🙂
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Lovely cows.. My sister runs a dairy farm in South AFrica.. 😉
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I would love to have Dairy! This used to be a Dairy Farm. Thank you Lisa! 🙂
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Beautiful farm and landscape.
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Thank you, very kind of you to say. 🙂
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Goodness Sue, you live in an amazing place, how wonderful to wake up to those views every day! And the cows…I’d never get any work done, they’re such beautiful creatures. I can’t wait until they’re back in the fields here! Such lovely photos of other parts of Yorkshire too. I’ve always heard what an incredible area of the UK it is, but have never managed to travel there..hopefully, one day.
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Thank you very much Debbie. I’m looking forward to having them back here too. My land is now rented to a local farmer and I’m hoping it will be the sheep and new lambs that will come back first.
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Ooh yes, I hope to see the lambs too! There are a few I’ve seen locally, but not on the farms close to the village yet. Happy viewing, once they’re out & about, Sue!
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I haven’t seen any yet! The farmer who rents my land usually starts lambing in early April, so not too long to wait. Happy viewing to you too!
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That misty morning with the sheep was a vista I could easily get used to seeing. I can hear the sheep’s lovely bleating in my ear right now. Beautiful nature!
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Thank you for your comments. I’m so glad my little farm pictures caught your attention. 🙂
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Oh, what a wonderful place! Your photos are gorgeous.
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Thank you so much for your kind comments, very much appreciated 🙂
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[Pic] Now that’s what I call a very smart cow! 🙂
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On behalf of the cow I thank you 😊
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I love animals ❤️
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They are lovely aren’t they. Thank you for the comment 🙂
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My pleasure ❤️
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Lovely cow, They are so cute
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They are indeed 🙂
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We visited York in 2016 to catch up with friends who picked me up while hitch hiking on a Motorway in 1976. They had been Down Under in 1998.
Loved York and would love to revisit again. Still I can always dream. 🙂
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York is one of my favourite place too 🙂
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I moved to the West Riding of Yorkshire from London in March this year – so much yet to explore – glad to have found your site here Sue – via the Weekly prompts
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Yes, So much to explore Laura, I do hope you like it here. Can you understand some of the natives? That accent can be very thick in some areas. which area did you settle in? So glad you found both sites. Thank you! 🙂
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Getting used to the language and the turns of phrase – finding my way up the snickets! Only just slipped into S. Yorks – on the Nottinghamshire border side – Between Rotherham and Doncaster. I believe you are in the Dales?
p.s. Love the black and white cows but what apart from the Holstein Friesian are the other two?
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They are Jersey.
I’m just outside of a village near Otley and about a mile from Wharfedale and the North Yorkshire border so just out of the Dales.
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How did you find the Yorkshire photo gallery, I thought I’d hidden the galleries!
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it was not hidden – it is a top link between blog and contact
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I hadn’t removed it from the top menu (no idea why I didn’t) but I could have sworn blind I’d hidden the gallery along with one other! You are the first person to use it in about eighteen months! Thank you Laura.
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I enjoyed exploring Yorkshire in there – hope you did not mind
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Oh, Laura, not at all. I thought people would think it was boring, but actually you’ve made me think differently, perhaps I might take another look and do more with it, and I thank you for that 🙂
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Hi, I’m glad I came across you via Debbie Jones’ blog. The pictures look gorgeous. What a lovely part of the world to live in. I live in wet, windy west of Scotland, which is so green and peaceful and I thank God each day for living in such a healing environment. Take care, and I look forward to following your exploits. Anita.😊
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Hello Anita, how lovely to meet you and thank you for your kind comments. The benefit of rain (Yorkshire also renowned for a wet climate) is as you say our green and peaceful land. Thank you for your interest and for following. I look forward to visiting you too 🙂
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Thank you!
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Many years ago, my sister lived in Ilkley on the moor, with Candy her golden Labrador. I remember visiting her and going to a really amazing fish’n chip shop in the area. Last year, our granddaughter graduated from York St John university . We visited in July. It’s a lovely city. Love your cattle photos. 😍
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What a small world! I live approximately twenty minutes from Ilkley Moor. I’m wondering if the fish and chip shop you refer to was also a large restaurant, perhaps the famous Harry Ramsdens?
One of my daughters also graduated from St John’s, and oddly enough my son and I are going over to York this very morning! It’s about fifty minutes away from my home and we never tire of visiting.
I’ve bumped into you often on blogs of mutual ‘friends’ Are you also from the U.K.?
Thank you for taking the time to say Hello and for following. 🙂
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Hello Sue
Really enjoy your blog, so thoughtfully written and always interesting. I live in Lincolnshire – about 25 mins from the Humber Bridge, so we often go to God’s own county. Keep up the good work!
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Nice to meet you Dave.
As bloggers go we’re practically neighbours! Thank you very much for your kind comments, they are appreciated.
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Very nice farm photos!
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Thank you, Tatiana 🙂
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Beautiful farm shots!
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Thank you very much🙂
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