Unfortunately due to the increased cost of just about everything recently we have had to take the decision to increase our tanning costs. We have not increased our prices since 2023 but are no longer able to sustain those costings.

First weights P.T. session tonight, not had one for a good few weeks …. Think I am gonna hurt tomorrow, definitely gonna hurt on Sunday 🙈🤣🤣🏋️‍♀️

Thought you would like a HuwDini update …. No more escaping, grown a lot, getting some horns and still loving a good chest rub and scratches 🤩🐏

This year the Home Office moved to stop expert sheep shearers from Australia and New Zealand coming to shear British sheep. The people who keep the animals comfortable were declared surplus to requirements. For over a decade, around 75 of the best shearers on earth have flown in each spring on a simple visa concession. In a few brutal weeks they take the wool off up to two million sheep. A top shearer clears a ewe in two or three minutes. Hundreds a day. Calm hands, no panic in the animal. It is a global trade and a young body's game, and Britain has never grown enough of its own. The official line? Fourteen years to train Britons, so the door is closing. Here is what that tidy sentence ignores. A sheep must be shorn every year or she overheats, cannot move properly, and gets eaten alive by flies and maggots. Shearing on time is welfare, plain and simple, written into law and into the animal's own skin. So a government that lectures farmers without pause about welfare has quietly made the most basic welfare task harder to carry out. After the outcry they allowed one "final" year. Then the experts are gone for good. A sector already losing money on every fleece, already burning wool it cannot sell, now told it cannot even get the people in to take the wool off. You could be forgiven for thinking somebody wants the British sheep gone.

Next week @CotmarshTannery are hosting the UKs first Micro Tanners Conference with tanners and leather specialists coming from all around the world - it is going to be a great few days with loads to learn! 🤩

Not a single care is given.. 😊 🎥 IG: mango.unchained1

Countryside Alliance Awards 2026 – Welsh Champions Announced! countryside-alliance.org/new…

📷"Industry awards, like those being awarded by the Countryside Alliance, are vital in supporting Welsh food businesses and make a real difference to sales success. Congratulations to all the finalists and winners - Llongyfarchiadau." @CAupdates @Plaid_Cymru @plaidclwydeast

Huge shout out to @CAupdates and @CAevs who organise and run these awards every year - they do an outstanding job of championing the countryside and those who live and work in it - proof there is power in the little people out there - we are small, we are few but we are mighty 💪

Winner winner chicken dinner!!! Proper photos and post later … I may have had free wine 🍷 🤣🤣🤣 @CAupdates @CAevs

Just a quick note to say that the tannery will be closed tomorrow afternoon as we are off the the @CAupdates #RuralOscars 🤩

Think I need a vet! 😳

Sunshine is back! ☀️

Good morning from Gloria

Unexpected item in the glass recycling bin ♻️

Shhhhhhh ….. little old man sleeping 💤

Fast forward to this weekend and a wonderful couple of days running workshops for Pembrokeshire Willow - Helyg Sir Benfro at Bryn a Môr Farm in beautiful Marros. This one in particular was specially for basket makers and all things straps and fixings.