Trevorrick Farm Stay Holiday Cottages, Padstow, Cornwall

06/06/2026

Royal Cornwall Show .... the last day was sadly cancelled this morning due primarily to high winds. Facebook is flooded with stories from traders, many small businesses, especially in the food tent, who have invested a lot of time and money in attending the show, only to have maybe the most lucrative day cancelled. So sad.

And all the animal exhibitors that have had to load and transport their animals home early in horrid weather. And all the people who have been unable to attend today, after looking forward so much to undoubtedly the greatest event of the year in Cornwall. I read that the last time a day was cancelled was 1993.

I was lucky enough to go on Thursday. I had to get up at 5pm to sort the animals and then got 6.35am bus to get into the showground before 7pm.... I wanted a full day! They still had some grandstand seats available to buy on the day, which i was glad of as I'd left it to late to find book one on line. I do like watching the show jumping classes.

There is just far too much to see and do in one day. Here is a snapshot of some of the things there.... The fearsome looking ram is a rare breed Hebridean. I have a female....just 2 horns and her lamb is now bigger than her as the father is my Texel ram.

Lovely lunch of Cornish cheese, yummy turmeric and leek Vicky's bread and Boddington strawberries from Mevagissey.

It was very cold....despite a woolly hat and windproof I had made mistake of wearing shorts and I spent most of day feeling cold, really cold.....

I stayed until the final showjumping class...but ended up with nearly an hour wait for 8.10pm bus. I then had to carry a bag of 1,040 Cornish tea bags and another bag with six wonderful succulents from the lovely Flower Show one mile back along the lane.

I was so, so glad to get home and have never wanted to go to bed under a really thick duvet so much..... After I had sorted the animals of course!

A long day.....but as ever a wonderful one and an amazing event to attend.

Melanie x

29/05/2026

Another changeover and another glorious day in Padstow. We have some availability this week...if you're quick. www.trevorrick.co.uk www.stargazycottagepadstow.co.uk www.letsgopadstow.co.uk

25/05/2026

Padstow harbour looking glorious with the Nao Santa Maria. The arrives in Padstow in Wednesday too.

14/05/2026

Rest in peace dear black and white duck... You were taken on Saturday night off your nest in the barn in the hay bales by a fox..... I thought you and your fellow duck....also taken .....were safe.... I should have taken you off the nest and put you in the shed and saved you. As I knew foxes were around.

You were at least 8 years old. You gave me 2 or 3 hatchings of ducklings per year. You survived the duck massacre of 2019. You were clever and were always such a proud mum and looked after your ducklings well.

I'm so so sad you are gone.

Melanie x

01/05/2026

01/05/2026

Harbour side......the music....the drums.... the joy.....

01/05/2026

Just after blue Oss came out it's stable...

01/05/2026

It's Obby Oss in Padstow. Can't wait to go in. The atmosphere is so wonderful, the streets are so pretty with the flags and the greenery.

The dancing, singing and especially the beat of the drums takes one back through the centuries. A traditon whose roots are lost in history, but will go on for ever, as it's so deeply rooted in anyone with Padstow roots, going down through the families to each generation.

Melanie x

01/02/2026

Lambing Day 10 - Sunday 25 January

Since Sunday the 25 January I have been in a sheep induced coma. The week has been a lambing nightmare, and very costly in terms of money and time. I've hardly done anything apart from "sheep", and "sleep" has certainly been something I haven't had enough of.

Small Quad put paid to all that and rest of the week by deciding that whilst I was out was the best time to lamb.

Stunningly beautiful day, the first dry day for 8 days...... the calm before the storm......hmmmm. Last check on small quad before I went out for a bit, that is the picture I posted yesterday................ I was on way to the Pickwick Inn and checked her on the way, and she was just, well siting comfortably.

I was really looking forward to a roast dinner at 3pm, and asked Mike to "watch the sheep" whilst I was out, as he had had to stay at home. He probably wished he didn't.......

Then just before 2.30pm I saw messages from Mike.

"She's just had two black lambs and one white"

"Guess the colour of lamb #4"

"Lamb #4 has just popped out.....it's white"

But how clever to wait until the ONLY dry and sunny day the 17th January. Surely she must have done that on purpose, kept all 4 hooves crossed. I've no doubt if the lambs had been born outside on any other day in last week the lambs would not have survived the rain and the wind. Ok it was the only day I'd gone out for a bit and I missed my dinner, but that is a bit selfish of me to say that!

That was my plan to enjoy a lovely roast dinner out the window and I was running (as much as I could at my age, so not much, lol)) home along the lane.

Mike had put the lambs in a pen in the barn on straw, a small black one looked weak.

I went to get changed into my already well used lambing trousers and coat and wellies, and when I got back to the pen there were FIVE!!!!

Google tells me quads are around one in four hundred and five lambs born healthy is one in a million. Well not quite sure about that, but it is rare, and often makes the news.

So I spent rest of afternoon sorting out the lambs and making up packet colostrum, and sending Mike out to buy more colostrum. The small black one was definitely weak, so Mike warmed it up in my "lamb box". Luckily I had that in the boiler house. A box with a hole either side and straw, lamb goes in, hairdrier one side, and hand the other to check lamb not too hot.

Eventually that worked and lamb was able tp bottlefeed as I didn't really want to tube feed it.

By around 8.30pm I was happy they were "settled" for a while and I took a 1.5 hour break, when I managed to eat something other than biscuits and chocolate bars.

Then it was feeding the lambs again and the rest of the animals. In the end I put 3 inside in a dog crate and slept close to them. Before I had bottle feds I worried I wouldn't know when to feed them in the night - just needed the first week. ...... No problem they tell you by bleating loudly.

I was very pleased they were all doing well, and looking good. Totally exhausted though.

The ewe in question was my smaller quad, born Easter Sunday 2021. A lockdown girl. I bottle fed her and her sister from birth. She also managed to break a leg somehow when a young lamb, which I managed to splint and when I took the spling off after a couple of weeks of crate rest, I cried when it was fine.

She'd never had more than two lambs so I really was not expected five or four, maybe three maximum. But she is not a big girl and didn't look particularly massive - apart from her udder, which was cow size.

When I went to bed sometime after twelve I was positive, but things were about to go badly wrong......

Melanie x