Category Archives: The White House

Thankless tasks……..

photo (2)Autumn is here with a vengence. The nights are drawing in and it seems strange to be preparing supper each evening with the normally beautiful view of the garden masked by complete darkness.

While the treees are stunning and a mass of yellow and russet tones, collecting the leaves is a thankless task. It doesn’t matter how often we tidy up, we get up the next morning and the grass is completely covered again.

Last year, we had to ignore this as we were up to our neck in renovating the property and the lawns suffered greatly as a result. This year however, we can’t afford to ignore and so we’ll just have to keen raking……………..

Jam making at The White House

The weather here at The White House Dulcote seems very Autumnal and at the weekend our thoughts turned to jam making.  Our shelves are now groaning with Blackberry jam following my foraging trip with my good friend Ros (and more later about her bravery when Bob attracted the attention of a fieldful of young cows…..)

Sunday saw us turn our attention to the ancient plum tree in the kitchen garden and I’m pleased to report that the jars of plum jam have now joined the blackberry ready for our next guests to arrive and taste them.

Lucy and I gathered a huge basketful from the lower hanging branches with the aid of a step ladder but we had to enlist Rod and a lacrosse stick to reach higher hanging fruit.  Me thinks he enjoyed hitting me on the head with a load of plums just a little too much…………………

Summer Holidays are finally here….

 

The sun doesn’t seem to have realised but the summer holidays are finally here.  There’s lots to see and do here in Wells and my own children are busy sharing their time between puppy watching and tennis club.

We are ready to welcome friends to The White House later next week which is something else to look forward to, so with our lovely bed and breakfast guests here too, there is no chance to be bored…..

A big welcome to Bob from The White House, Dulcote Wells

Well, we finally brought Bob home on Friday evening and he is settling in really well.  Despite being warned that we may have a few sleepless nights, he has slept right through the night and, although we have had three very early mornings, my fears that he might disturb our guests crying, have been unfounded.  In fact – he is turning out to be a great hit!  A little jealous really, our guests comments now focus on how gorgeous Bob is………..  You can see from the photo what a little rascal he has turned out to be.

 

bob is home!

 

 

Snow White and The Huntsman

A few days ago I promised to post some pictures of Snow White and the Huntsman, which is currently filming in Wells, less than a mile from The White House Bed and Breakfast.

Well, the pictures aren’t great, and I didn’t manage to capture the huge encampment at the bottom of Bishops Fields, but here goes….

The place is a hive of activity at the moment, although we haven’t yet managed to see any of the stars of the film

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Darlek invasion of Wells

After an energetic day in The White House garden yesterday, replenishing all of our pots, I settled down with a cup of coffee to read the Wells Journal.  Imagine my surprise to hear of an imminent invasion of Wells of those old Dr Who adversaries, the Darleks…..  According to the Journal, intergalactic messages have been intercepted, indicating that an army of Daleks, Cybermen, Ice Warriors and Pig Slaves  will invade Wells on Saturday, August 15, in the Market Square at around 11am, and moving onto the Bishop’s Barn at around noon.

Here’s hoping they don’t make it up to Dulcote!

Read more: http://www.wellsjournal.co.uk/Daleks-ready-invade-city-s-market/story-26806943-detail/story.html#ixzz3f5nmW4tg

The White House, Dulcote, Wells

Everyone here at The White House was surprised to receive an email yesterday from our new Miniture Schnauzer puppy. It read “Hello my new family.  I am BOB.  Dont you think I look smart now that I have had a haircut?  I am so looking forward to coming to live with you very soon, in the meantime I will continue to grow, eat and run around the garden causing chaos. Love from BOB”

We just can’t wait to being him home and can’t believe how much he has grown just in one week.

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The White House Kitchen Garden

Back in March I began to plan out our kitchen garden and the vegetables are really taking off.  We have a huge range of vegetables growing and so far have been able to pick broad beans, broccolli and spinach.  We have so much spinach I’m beginning to think its vampire spinach – we cut it right back for supper and the next morning its right back, as big as the day before.  So much so the family are rebelling and refusing to it more!  Anyone for spinach???kitchen garden 1kitchen garden 2