Bath City Farm regularly use Roundhill Barn for their annual team get-together. And – hardy folk that they are – they choose to do it in February.

Even today, when there was such a hard frost that the padlocks were frozen.

So it was a nice surprise for them to find – for the first time – a new warm floor, powered by solar thermal energy. Also a full battery which means they don’t need any generator to switch on lights and the odd kettle (or even a full-sized electric urn…just not urn and kettle at the same time, we’ve learned).

That plus two woodburners should make for a cosy and memorable awayday. We look forward to hearing how it went.