Merrybent Hill Luxury Bed & Breakfast

For the past month we have had an Oyster Catcher nest in our garden and the parents have brooded the eggs diligently. In the last couple of days all three eg...

Wonderful Merrybent Hill Luxury B&B is now of course closed according to the government's requirements. Nevertheless we are hoping that soon things will be ...

If you feel the need to escape then Merrybent Hill is the perfect place to do it. We stand alone on the top of the hill and have no neighbours at all. We h...

In the last few days we have seen the Curlews, Lapwings, Oystercatchers and Skylarks all reappear on the fields around the house. We can hear their calls as w...

I sometimes forget just how lucky I am to live in such an amazing place, but on New Year's Eve we had a full house of B&B guests who all arrived in the dark ...

We have had some beautifully clear winter evenings at Merrybent. Inside the log fires are lit and its so cosy. Come and visit to see the stars and then sit...

My new book of landscape photography about the Pennines has just been published. It makes a great Christmas present for anyone interested in photography or w...

National Meadow Day is always a wonderful free family day out, held each year at Bell Sykes Farm, Slaidburn.

We have a special offer on our Skye cottage for July bookings of £100 discount per week. We have availability for weeks commencing July 6, 13, and 20 and the...

The weather has been so topsy turvy recently at Merrybent. The other day this was the view from the Cross of Greet pass, with snow on the hills, but yesterd...

This is a wonderful series of concerts of all types of music that take place throughout the Ribble Valley from Spring right through to Autumn. All concerts ...

Can't wait for our daffodils to appear soon! There are daffodils flowering lower down in the valley but at 1,000 feet on the top of a hill our are still a l...

Its like Narnia here at the moment, very cold but quite beautiful. The other day the trees were covered in frost from some freezing fog overnight, and it lo...

Why is it that I find hanging washing out on a line to be such a pleasurable activity? Even on a very snowy day in January? Maybe its the wonderful scent of...

Watching the incredible tennis on display in Melbourne this morning, especially from Novak Djokovich, it occurred to me that no matter how talented you are a...

It began to snow yesterday and continued for most of the day, so we decided to stay at home and work! Today it is beautifully sunny and the landscape looks w...

I have just re-designed our website for Merrybent Hill Luxury B&B. Do take a look! One of the things that many guests like to do when they come to stay at M...

When you have known the Isle of Skye for more than 20 years and owned a property on the Island for the last 10 years it is very easy to become complacent ab...