Bright October Day at Hilltop Farm

Janet called-in at the estate agents this morning in Leyburn & brought home the final edition of the sales brochure for Hill Top Farm and in a way the move is now suddenly "real" - all the phone call and visits and photos have now culminated in this and the "penny has finally dropped" that we'll be leaving Hill Top Farm.  Odd -but when it's on-paper like this and next Friday in the Darlington & Stockton Times as a quarter- page ad then it's started.  The sales brochure is on the GSC Grays site at www.gscgrays.co.uk

We have had this place for 25 years now and lived here full-time for over 14 years - the longest time we have lived anywhere in our married life - and together will all the work we have done on the house I have come to know every inch of the place and we shall miss it for sure when we  move down to Reeth.  But it will be a different life there and a life that fits better with our future as we grow older together - someone else will have the joy of Hill Top and the amazing life we have had here high in these wonderful hills.

Anyway just a couple of photos taken this bright morning - one looking North-West from the garden down into Arkle Beck valley and across to our two neighbouring farms - Park Head to the left & Dale Head Farm to the right - the other photo looking down towards Whaw.

View North-West from Hill Top looking down into Arkle Beck valley

Looking down Arkle Beck valley towards Whaw

 I love the way that from almost every front window one sees Arkle Beck winding down to Whaw - this shot of the Autumn morning sun making the beck a bright ribbon of silver is what I'll miss waking up to.