This year we decided to plant some trees, so any new guests may notice about five hundred of them in our field next to the house. The Woodland trust helped supply them and managed to get a wide selection of native varieties. We’ve called it Murph’s wood after our late father, as shown by the very hand made sign!

As well as looking nice our trees should on average remove about five tonnes of CO2 a year from the atmosphere. We estimate the house emits just over three tonnes of CO2 a year, making us a better than neutral business.

But that’s not a fair and realistic comparison, cleaners, gardeners and guests are driving to the house each week, and we estimate that creates about six tonnes of CO2. So for us a truer goal is to offset around about nine tonnes of CO2 each year. Based on that we will be looking to do some more planting in the next season!