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Welcoming 2025!
Now we are well into February with lengthening hours of light and blankets of snowdrops beckoning the next season, we bring you news from the beginning of the year. January has kept us busy here at Barwhillanty Estate as we rounded up the shooting calendar, battled with the wild weather and began exciting plans for the year ahead. Beginners Take Flight Maria took 2025 to a flying start, welcoming many first-time aerial yoga students to her beginners class, for a taste of fun, flexibility and strength training with the aerial…
Reflecting on 2024!
At the end of December, we took time to look back and reflect on the past 12 months and document all the fantastic moments we experienced here at Barwhillanty Estate.…
Barwhillanty Blog… Festive reflections
The festive season is upon us again and the wet weather brings an opportunity for reflection on another year gone by. Let me mull over some highlights and happenings with…
Barwhillanty Blog – another year gone by!
A little embarrassingly, it seems this blog has become an annual update… another Happy New Year to you all! It appears with each child added to the fold, putting pen…
21,800 homes that won’t benefit from renewable electricity: Mochrum fell Windfarm – Refused Planning
I am saddened to report that he Scottish Government has refused planning on the 29.4MW Mochrum Fell Windfarm that would have supplied renewable power to 21,800 homes in Dumfries and…
Barwhillanty Blog… Happy New Year!
As we welcome in the New Year, we wish 2022 to be a year of health and prosperity for you all…
Barwhillanty Blog… Lifting out of Lockdown
Where did the whirlwind start to 2021 go? Last time I wrote, optimism was a plenty for a prosperous New Year, yet lockdown laid law again and here we are…
Barwhillanty Blog… Bah Humbug!
It’s certainly been a challenging year for us here at Barwhillanty Estate, but we have not let the hurdles hold us back and remain optimistic for a prosperous 2021. It…
Mochrum Fell Windfarm – Public Consultation
The proposed windfarm on Mochrum Fell is currently undergoing public consultation. The scheme which is already approved, detail of which can be found in earlier posts, is seeking to increase…
Barwhillanty Blog… Lockdown life!
Lockdown life here at Barwhillanty Estate has been busy… the restrictions have inspired innovation and opportunity in some areas of our business, whilst we have continued carefully in others.
The End Game – 4th October 2020
Coming to the end of the Scottish season for outdoor events in and around Loch Ken, round off Endurance Autumn with the “End Game”
Barwhillanty Blog… ‘tis the season to get outdoors!
I am delighted to have collaborated with Katie Myers at Mainland Aggregates to bring you some encouraging insights into the health benefits of being outdoors, so it’s time to don your hats and gloves...
Barwhillanty Blog… Happy, healthy holidays!
Healthy, wholesome, holistic living is the ethos of Barwhillanty, echoed in our Raw and Wild retreats, aiming to educate through our example of sustainable living, incorporating physical and mental wellbeing.
Barwhillanty Blog… to blossom and bloom
Welcome spring in full blossom and unprecedented bloom, from fabulous flowers in the garden to the arrival of our beautiful baby girl on 18th May.
Barwhillanty Blog… Christmas is coming!
... and the pheasants are already fat!
The Battles Over: A Nations Tribute 11th November 2018 – 100 Years of Remembrance
As part of a historical international event we are lighting a beacon to commemorate the centenary of the end of the Great War, and to recognise the contributions and sacrifices…
