We have just had the most marvellous camp here: 90+ adults and children aged from three to seventy. The idea, started in the 1930s, is to introduce city children to the joys of country living, I think. Most people seemed to come from London.

They were completely self-contained with their own tents, food cooked on an open fire and latrines. Meals were taken sitting on logs in a circle and chores were split amongst everyone equally on a rota. The time was well occupied with activities such as making little boats to carry night-lights to sail on the pond in the evening, sawing up firewood, decorating jam jars to hold night-lights for lanterns, singing round the camp fire, a treasure hunt, face painting, swimming in the pond, a water slide on a big plastic sheet and a very scary evening of "night-games" devised by the teenagers, which involved meeting peculiar beasts in the woods.

The farm seems very quiet now they have all gone and we look forward to seeing Nelleke and her team again next year.