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Saturday 14 June – part nine: exploring cottages and cow sheds at Cregneash
We drove a couple of miles further up the road to Cregneash, where we parked up, and took in the beautiful views from there back across Port St. Mary…
We were here to visit Cregneash Living Village, which was first opened to the public in 1938, making it the first living village in the UK. We wandered along the path, and found a cow here…
… along with some ruins…
… and a thatched cottage…
We headed down to the ticket place, where once again we showed our National Trust membership cards, and were admitted free. Mark bought me a souvenir guidebook, and look what he got back – Manx money!
The woman in there gave us a wonderful explanation of everything there is to see here, then suggested we watch the introductory video, which we did, before heading upstairs to learn a bit more about this place…
We headed first into the former cow shed, where the girls used to learn how to milk cows. As I said to Mark, at least they were practiced before they were let loose on my boys!
We found this cute little guy in here…
Then we went to Harry Kelly’scottage, which was the one that started it all, as it was the first property to be purchased for public exhibition. It’s a two roomed crofter’s cottage, made up of the kitchen and bedroom. The half-loft was accessed by a ladder, and provided additional storage or sleeping accommodation.
The children would sleep upstairs, but as the woman in there explained, the oldest ones slept nearest the drop, and there was a huge fishing net out to catch them, should the worst happen….
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The cottages are very quaint. I notices the dishes on the hutch, it reminds me of my grandmother, she had some of the blue patterns too!!! What a great way to learn how to milk the cows.
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Next we headed into the farm. We’d been told we might see a Manx cat here, and sure enough, a couple of minutes later, one came bounding over!
Then we went to go and visit the pig, who we’d been told by the girl in the shop was a monster, and only a year old and wow, she wasn’t kidding.
The woman here would feed her grass and, as you can see, she seemed to love it!
Eventually she got too hot or bored of us, and trotted off to go and roll in the mud. Look at the state of her afterwards!
Our Manx feline friend re-appeared, and was very friendly…
Then I heard a commotion, and found these cute guys!
Apparently the hen had 12 chicks, and 11 have made it this far. The dad is apparently very parental, and looks after them very well, which is good to hear.
Next we went inside the farmhouse, and the woman told us so much that I can’t remember much now. I remember that this is a Manx dresser and they did all sorts of things to it in its life to get it to fit into rooms, cutting bits out so it fitted underneath beams etc. I also remember that the jugs have to face inwards, which is now a superstition thing, although it started out that it was to stop dirt from blowing into them when the front door opened…
She also told us this was the church before the church was built, and it’s a very well to-do house, which you could tell from all the timber used in it, as there were no timber supplies on the island when it was built, which hadn’t even crossed my mind.
There were also some very cool cow photos in here!
We found another Manx cat when we came out – it really was our lucky day for this!
Once we were done in here, we headed over to see the church…
I made a rather alarming discovery while I was in there. My first battery, that had been fully charged, had died a little bit earlier, just before we saw the pig, and I’d put a second one in, having checked it earlier, and it too was fully charged. Well, it can’t have been, because now it was showing barely any charge after maybe 50 photos. I searched in my bag for my third battery, because I was sure I had that with me, but could I find it? I couldn’t… now what?
We headed back to the car, and I suggested maybe we should just head for our B&B in Douglas. We’d said we’d be there between 4:00pm and 5:30pm, but when I checked, their check-in time was anytime from 2:00pm to 10:00pm, so if we were early, it really wouldn’t be an issue, so off we went.
Again, we went on some of the TT course….
We passed through the lovely village of Ballasalla….
I know, right? It's probably my own fault for not double checking that the batteries were fully charged before leaving home. I think I checked one and forgot to do the other one. Oh well, lesson learnt! I won't be doing that again.
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Looks like a beautiful area! 
Mary - not enough trips!
and wow, she wasn’t kidding. 
I remember that this is a Manx dresser and they did all sorts of things to it in its life to get it to fit into rooms, cutting bits out so it fitted underneath beams etc. I also remember that the jugs have to face inwards, which is now a superstition thing, although it started out that it was to stop dirt from blowing into them when the front door opened… 
I searched in my bag for my third battery, because I was sure I had that with me, but could I find it? 
I couldn’t… now what? 
It's probably my own fault for not double checking that the batteries were fully charged before leaving home. I think I checked one and forgot to do the other one. Oh well, lesson learnt! 
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