We are very proud to announce that Barbara Hadrell, ‘Babs’, the horse logger who comes to help us to harvest the timber from the Barlings wood, won 'Horse Logger of the Year 2013’, particularly based around the work she has done here in our magical forest. Weare so thrilled for Babs, as she works so hard, and we send many congratulations to her and fabulous horses, Tyler and Billy.

We are very proud to announce that Barbara Hadrell, ‘Babs’, the horse logger who comes to help us to harvest the timber from the Barlings wood, won 'Horse Logger of the Year 2013’, particularly based around the work she has done here in our magical forest. Weare so thrilled for Babs, as she works so hard, and we send many congratulations to her and fabulous horses, Tyler and Billy. You might have met them while you were staying with us and watched her in action.

We were also delighted that the judges (one of whom is the Forest Manager for HRH Prince of Wales) described Terry and I as ‘enlightened owners’!

The judges visited us with gales and horizontal rain; not really conducive to seeing the wood in her best colours but they did seem to like our plans for making the wood an attractive, peaceful place for our guests and ourselves to enjoy whilst gently harvesting the timber.