simply mayrose

2009-06-17T12:12:00.000+01:00

Free-range Kids

For most urban parents, the idea of allowing your children out into the street to play with their friends is an option that disappeared along with free school milk and the three day week. However at Mayrose Farm free-range kids are the norm. Here you can live the idyll not just of a pretty Cornish hamlet but one of 30 years ago.

While parents relax and enjoy the calm of one of our six pretty stone cottages their children can make friends and play outside the old fashioned way. Remember the joy of knocking for your pals? The sense of liberation as you wandered from house to house to your own timetable? Remember fishing for tadpoles and building a den? All still possible for the free-range kids at Mayrose Farm.

Children of all ages love feeding the ducks and lambs, exploring the farm or having a good old kick-about with jumpers for goalposts. Long-lasting friendships form in the fresh air and children sleep soundly; sun-kissed, wind-blown and content.

Ready for Summer Holidays

2009-05-25T17:16:00.007+01:00

Lots of spring time happenings...a stoat has been seen, terrorising our chicks. We also are pleased to have new rabbits, guinea pigs, and ducks for our duck pond.

This bank holiday weekend we have a full complement of visitors, the Glamppod being much enjoyed, and the heated swimming pool.

The sheep are very happy to have been sheared.

We have September vacancies and will be delighted to help with any booking queries

2009-04-05T14:41:00.004+01:00

What a difference a bit of scrubbing can do.
We are ready for the summer

Our own little helpers have made the pool brilliant

We have also had a superb week of helping hands sourced from Southampton University. Four volunteers have had a weeks working holiday at Mayrose, accommodation and lunch provided, in return half a day of helping us with Spring chores and the rest of the day to play. We all enjoyed it very much and have made new friends. Volunteers for next year please.......

Mayrose in nearly springtime

2009-02-20T19:58:00.003Z

At last signs of Spring are around us, making us very excited for the Summer to come.
The snowdrops by our lake are fabulous at present

We are also delighted that The Good Food Company are now on site and working so
we can offer ready home cooked meals for our guests
Pick up a frozen meal for the evening, or order a whole dinner to be delivered to your cottage.

2009-01-26T10:18:00.001Z

Working holiday jobs for Mayrose
Painter decorator urgently needed...get in touch
info@mayrosefarmcottages.co.uk
01840213509

1) Working holiday. We need 4 students for a week at the end of March to help clear and tidy our grounds ready for the start of the season. They will work with David who manages the site. Anything could be asked from painting outside walls to hedge tidying, digging a garden and clearing a small lake. So practical people only need apply.... We will provide accommodation in one of our cottages , also one meal a day, and ask for half a days work for 6 days. The rest of the day is holiday time for walking, surfing, exploring etc. We are a small family run business with a few friendly farm animals, not a working farm.

2) A couple to work here for the summer. Accommodation will be provided in a static caravan on our small camping field. Again work for half a day on general jobs helping us run the 6 cottages, grounds and visitors...
We will also in this case offer some payment. Anyone interested will need to have a car as bus services here are not good. The dates we require are from mid June to mid September. This would give a great opportunity to spend a summer in Cornwall and have lots of time to explore...

2008-12-22T14:03:00.002Z

HAPPY CHRISTMAS and NEW YEAR

From all of us at

Mayrose Farm

News for 2009

2008-12-12T11:06:00.003Z

Christmas and Nerw Year News

Nearly ready for Christmas, we have some New Year vacancies so please contact us.

We are very excited about a new development at Mayrose farm. We have a catering company about to move onto the premises. The kitchen and office are being set up now .
The Good Food Company will be running their business here from the end of January, so we will be offering a menu of ready meals to order from us for arrival nights in your cottage, or to have waiting for you after a day out.

Bargain holidays, old fashioned british is best

2008-11-10T12:15:00.006Z

Mayrose is looking forward to Christmas and New Year holidays and short breaks. Here in Cornwall days are still mild and evenings can be cosy by log fires. I love a walk around the fields, visiting the ducks on the lake and coming back to light the fire with an armful of kindling gathered on my ramblings. A chat to the ducks on the way has helped the relaxation to click in.

Our ambiance , and the type of holidy we are so well appreciated for, are brilliantly described in the Times Travel section this weekend http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/holiday_type/breaks/article5108632.ece .

What a great article to describe all that's brilliant about family holidays in Cornwall . Also that camping is so cool now, we have a site by the swimming pool, and a luxury camping experience, or glamping as some call it, with the described full sized beds in an amazing canvas safari tent, all protected by you own tropical mini eden biome, the Glamppod

Christmas and New Year are nearly here so please get in contact if you have queries over dates etc, we are very flexible and try hard to find you the days you want.

Winter Weekends

2008-10-06T11:16:00.005+01:00

WINTER WEEKEND SPECIAL

Our weekend special offer for 2 people, was so popular last year that we are again offering your first night dinner awaiting your arrival, full first breakfast goodies and a complementary basket of local products, and dinner at a choice of 2 restaurants....The Slipway or The Millhouse
If you contact us we can give you more details

This 3 night weekend, or 4 night mid week break all for £350
Extra couples £110 per break

Mayrose late summer

2008-09-21T13:54:00.005+01:00

How wonderful to have summer at last. We are fully enjoying a peaceful, quieter time in Cornwall and here at Mayrose.
The next tasks are picking apples, and moving this years increase in duck population down to the lake for the winter.
We are welcoming parents and young children, also short breaks are being requested...special deals for all.

We had a brilliant season with the Glampod...everyone loved living down there. Felicity and family brought their pony, famous in the children's books she is writing about Elsie the Pony. They had family fancy dress parties and enjoyed cosy evenings around the stove, candles alight everywhere. Bookings now available for next year from £400 per week, please phone us.

Glamping in our glamppod...

2008-07-25T12:52:00.003+01:00

We now have our glampod, glamorous camping experience fully booked until the end of August. Great news for the Glamppod.
September still has some vacancies so please enquire about booking

2008-07-11T10:36:00.004+01:00

Where is our summer ? But in spite of quite a bit of rain, eveyone here at Mayrose seems to be very relaxed and making the best of Cornwall's attractions. After a wet day and freezer troubles and thus a few 'oh dears', my evening was made.....our delightful Irish guests presented me with these glorious wild flowers from the hedges up the lane. Father and daughter had a bouquet competition...both were winners.
There are even a few patches of blue sky showing!!!

Also today some cheeping from the incubator..so chicks about to hatch. Guess what the next photos will be ?

Mayrose Farm is aptly named...

2008-06-17T16:26:00.004+01:00

Although it's June now I suppose! We have been having fantastic weather and everyone staying here is very sun tanned and happy.

There are still a couple of vacancies for June in the cottages, reduced prices for last minute bookings.

Our duck sitting by the pool has hatched a brood, they had to be removed from the pool rather quickly....not the place to rear the ducklings....

Glamping in our camppod...

2008-05-30T18:19:00.008+01:00

We've had our first fun nights of guests staying in the camping biome, camppod.
What an amazing success, the children loved the feast by the fire...

...as did the parents.
We are now booked for August, but have spaces in September when it will be a delight to have the extra weather protection, and blissful warmth

Spring joys...flowers and produce

2008-05-18T12:40:00.005+01:00

What a delight to gather fresh eggs for breakfast, after a wander down the lanes amongst the spring flowers...fresh hedgerow scents to awaken the senses. Book now for June, long sunset evenings

Camping experience at Mayrose

2008-05-15T14:56:00.006+01:00

Warmth and weather protection on those early spring and late autumn days, bask in glorious warmth all summer.

Try our mini eden ‘Glamping’ experience.

Here at Mayrose we have developed a luxury, eco friendly camping experience in a controlled environment known as the ‘Camping Biome’.

Ignore the rain
Barbecue every night
Shut out the wind
Warm evenings
Woodburning stove
Luxury canvas dwelling
Sub tropical garden
Fire pit

Opening Spring 2008.

Geese on the farm

2008-05-12T21:38:00.005+01:00

Our wild Canada Geese have hatched 5 babies this year....amazing.

Only 4 last year...!

They are very proud parents swimming on our small lake

Swimming Pool revival

2008-05-12T21:29:00.008+01:00

We've been working hard to get the pool ready. A lot of helpful scrubbers !

So now with brilliant sunshine it's ready for swimmers, children really love using it. It's a sheltered site and was a hot spot today.

Even a local mallard duck fancies it...nesting in the flower bed...

Cornwall is blooming...

2008-05-12T20:55:00.005+01:00

How beautiful Cornwall is today, sunshine and flowers.....the hedgerows are stunning, the best time of year for wildflowers. Our lane outside the cottages has been picture of primroses, and now being overtaken by blue swathes of bluebells.

Our new lambs are still being bottle fed, but getting quite demanding now, they are a joy to take for a walk. They followed me into the kitchen this evening while I was getting their feed ready.

Even more exciting news is our camping biome, campod, which is now ready for occupancy. We're delighted with it and the immense feeling of relaxation experienced when being down the fields, secluded and safe but great views and a whole field for the children to play in. The tree ferns are shooting loads of new fronds, and the tropical feel of your own mini eden is amazing.

Wonderful sunset over Mayrose...

2008-05-12T20:40:00.006+01:00

Because of our aspect we get to see the most wonderful sunsets from our cottages all year round. They make a lovely backdrop to any holiday!

Welcome to the Mayrose blog...

2008-04-14T13:51:00.000+01:00

Look out for lots of news and stories of what's going on at Mayrose.