Hi everyone - my name is Sue and I run Cherry Bank Bed and Breakfast, with a little help (or not!) from the rest of the family, hubby Kev who is a Senior Forester with The National Trust, design-student daughter Rach and police student son Matty. We have three delightful dogs who you will get to know and love - cocker spaniels Lottie and Jasper, and Westie Hamish; Tiggy the tabby cat; an aviary full of colourful budgies; five horses - the one and only Bucks Fizz with whom we have travelled all over the UK with success at the highest level, including two appearances at The Horse of the Year Show, Sonny - my wannabe eventer who had much success as a four year old but who has been thwarted by the weather ever since with many events cancelled, Buster - the new kid on the block, sweet but slightly thoughtless at times, Roscoe - our lovely coloured boy whose best-loved passion is gymkhana games and Jaffa - my retired eventer on whom I had much fun and success almost twenty years ago.
Just over a year ago, Kev and I took over the farm next door, Dancing Gate, which had belonged to my parents when they were alive. We have been busy renovating the farmhouse for the last year and hope to have it ready for self-catering letting by Easter. We have kept four cows, three of these are beautiful red Salers and we have one Aberdeen Angus cross. We hope to buy more Salers cows this summer. We also have a sheep flock - we have several different breeds as we are quite fond of rare breeds. About half of our ewes are texel or charollais cross, but we also have two South Down ewes, two Ryeland/South Down cross ewes, six herdwick ewes, sixteen shetland ewes and a Suffolk cross ewe. The two tups are friendly boys - Merlin is a Dutch Texel and Charlie is a Beltex/Charollais cross.
Kev also has a collection of Vintage Tractors which he has spent many hours working on and which he occasionally uses on the farm instead of the more modern tractors we have nowadays.
Just over a year ago, Kev and I took over the farm next door, Dancing Gate, which had belonged to my parents when they were alive. We have been busy renovating the farmhouse for the last year and hope to have it ready for self-catering letting by Easter. We have kept four cows, three of these are beautiful red Salers and we have one Aberdeen Angus cross. We hope to buy more Salers cows this summer. We also have a sheep flock - we have several different breeds as we are quite fond of rare breeds. About half of our ewes are texel or charollais cross, but we also have two South Down ewes, two Ryeland/South Down cross ewes, six herdwick ewes, sixteen shetland ewes and a Suffolk cross ewe. The two tups are friendly boys - Merlin is a Dutch Texel and Charlie is a Beltex/Charollais cross.
Kev also has a collection of Vintage Tractors which he has spent many hours working on and which he occasionally uses on the farm instead of the more modern tractors we have nowadays.
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