A Day at Nedrum

On Saturday we went for lunch with our friends Lorraine and Martin at their farm, Nedrum, near Rye Park.  They are establishing a trufflery to support themselves in their retirement!  This is where 1600 oak trees will be planted to produce the truffles.

Currently the property has a herd of approximately 40 Angus cattle.  Even in the rain, calves are cute!!  And I've always been fond of photographing cows!  (Kath can vouch for this!!)

The cattle have been having their feed supplemented with grain, but the birds seem to have been getting a goodly proportion.  I have never seen so many galahs in one spot before!!

We visited nearby Heathfield House, I dont have permission to show you pics of the inside, but it was built in 1918 and some of the stuff is 'original', with a lot from the '30's, it was amazing.  It boasts its own working tennis court, the club room is stacked with tennis memorabilia - a taste of the finer life in the middle of the sticks!!

There is a mob of 36 kangaroos, resident on the property, hard to see here, but you'll have to take my word for it!!  If you look hard you may see them, right in the middle of the pic!!

The garden at Nedrum is full of goodies, as is the Heathfield House garden.  Having been told the only lemon I could grow up here is Meyer, I gave up.... but here is a lemon that is plainly not a Meyer, thriving, took some fruit from the windfall and hope to strike a seedling or two for Mt Tanga's orchard.

The weather was bitterly cold, but the clouds were amazing, and we even had a triple rainbow, though it's hard to see here.

We enjoyed a delicious lunch of pork belly, roasted veggies and braised fennel, followed by meringue with strawberries and cream and all washed down with a goodly quantity of fine wine.  After our tour of the farm we warmed our cockles with irish coffees - all good :)  Will have to pull out all the stops for the return visit ;-D  These pics from the Nedrum garden:

Bert (at the back)  and Ernie (closer to the camera) - the alpacas - used to work as sheep guards and were very good at their job, but the sheep have gone and these guys are enjoying their retirement and new status of 'pets'.