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Not So Much Social-Distancing on the Zip Wire

These swallows don't quite understand the constraints of life at the moment, no social distancing here! They have taken to playing on our...

Jun 17

New Pond for the Fish as Duck Compound Takes Over

A new pond has been especially created to house the Koi Carp that have been displaced by our new duck compound. Meadow Valley Farm alread...

Jun 10

TRB HQ Meadow Valley Farm in For a Storm

This is a beautiful, but also rather stormy, picture of the entrance to The Racing Bug HQ, Meadow Valley Farm. We've been at our new base...

Jun 8

An update on Event Shelter Chaffinch Family!

Evidently, we're still not doing any events here at The Racing Bug, which is great for this chaffinch family. A few a weeks ago their nes...

Jun 3

Our Engineering Skills Help with The Alpacas Too

Another problem solved.. How to rapidly and thoroughly remove dust and debris from an Alpaca fleece prior to fibre processing? The answer...

Jun 1

Event Shelter has officially been Occupied by the Chaffinches

A few week ago a nest was spotted in the spare wheel of our Event Shelter Trailer Evidently due to the current pandemic and lack of event...

May 27

TRB Bridge Club

At Meadow Valley Farm (aka The Racing Bug HQ), the Bank Holiday weekend consisted of playing Bridge! Made almost entirely from off-cuts a...

May 26

Event Trailer Chaffinch Family Update

Delighted to report that our Event Trailer resident Chaffinches have hatched and appear to be doing well. At least 3 chicks but probably ...

May 21

Dr Dolittle here at TRB Rescuing Bats

It was awesome to have helped out this small pipistrelle bat this morning. It had apparently crash landed over night in one of our outsid...

May 18

Chaffinches Found Home in the TRB Event Shelter Trailer

Proof of how long we've not being doing events for, this Chaffinch family have fully settled in! The spare wheel of our Event Shelter tra...

Apr 24

Staying Strong During Lockdown

We can't do events, we can't do Raceway maintenance, and we can't do much else. So we may as well sort out HQ here at the farm a little b...

Apr 13

Fuelled by Chocolate This Easter

The Racing Bug would like to wish everyone a happy (and safe) Easter. During what has probably been the strangest Easter break for so man...

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