Harpers Barns

22/04/2026

After much plotting, tweaking and caffeine...
monkeyboy is live!
https://monkeyboy.shop
To celebrate, I’m offering friends & followers:
Any single card for £3 including FREE postage
And as a bonus, you’d also be helping me to give the new site its first proper real-world test.
So if you fancy a card and don’t mind being one of the friendly early testers, just comment DONE and I’ll send you the link.
TIA
Dave

21/01/2025

That ABSOLUTELY was intended as a N**i salute. This is HOW they do it - they eat away at accepted norms pushing to see just how far they can go. watch - I bet you’ll see the released Proud Boys start to use this as their own “variant” of a n**i salute and use the pitiful “justification” already emerging that it means “ my heart goes out to you”. Yeah right - and the aggressive force of the salute has NO resemblance to the n**i one at all ….. ALL IT TAKES FOR EVIL TO PROSPER ….

He has spoken out after the gesture caused online outrage.

24/06/2024

4-Bedroom home with 3 fields (5 acres) Incredible views plus holiday let opportunity.
Here is detailed brochure. DM me with any queries

17/06/2024

To all my FB Friends. Our home is for sale and is an incredible Lifestyle Home Business Opportunity!
If you know of anyone specifically who might be interested, can you please send the details direct on to them? And it would be very helpful if as many of you as possible could post on your own timeline. I hope you don't mind me asking ...TIA
Heres the link:
https://www.purplebricks.co.uk/property-for-sale/4-bedroom-detached-house-st-austell-1683959

12/11/2023

FB FRIENDS - I NEED YOUR HELP!
My own Ill health and that of my wife plus the current economic climate have combined to make it totally impossible for me to carry on with our dream at Harper’s Barns. We are having to sell up and move on. The irony is that as you’ve all seen, the Shepherds hut is finished and ready to trade, tho we’ve missed the Season this year.

All the groundwork (excuse the pun!) for someone else to “live the dream” and make their own life-changing move to Cornwall is already done. The shepherds hut is finished, the website is live. The single-storey barn is finished structurally just needing internal finishing. The 2-storey barn is structurally sound as a shell. The house needs cosmetic work.

So how can you help?
1
Well obviously, if you are interested personally, please get in touch and I’ll send you full details. Included in the price will be lots of free business/Glamping logistics advice from me, if it's needed.
2
Please share my post and the links as widely as possible to all your FB friends and email/WhatsApp or otherwise contact those not on FB. Especially anyone who you think would really welcome this life-changing opportunity.
3
The next “ask” is a difficult one as I know EVERYONE is suffering financially at present. If you like my images of Cornwall that I sell as prints then perhaps you could consider a purchase? Perhaps as a Xmas present for someone. They start at only £10. The battle to fend off forced repossession (rather than controlling the sale ourselves) is ongoing, so stresfull and intense and any additional revenue I can raise in the meantime will really help. Prints and framed prints can be ordered off the website and here’s the link.
http://harpersbarns.com/shop
If you’re able to, that’s a bonus for me, but I fully realise not everyone’s personal finances will allow for that in this current financial crisis so PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE only consider a purchase if your finances really allow it.
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My main request of you is to “pimp” this reluctant sale as hard as you can for me.
As you can imagine this has been a totally heartbreaking decision to have to make.

I will be setting up a private FB Group very soon so that interested parties can join, to access all the information and ask questions that all can see the answers to. And of course if people want a more discreet chat then I can be contacted by email at

[email protected]

Thank you for taking the time to read this.
I really appreciate from the bottom of my heart any help that you can give us.

Dave

Escape to the Cornish countryside with a holiday in our hand-built shepherds hut. Glamping with mod cons. Peace, tranquility, detox!

19/10/2023

Heineken don't do holidays for Martial Artists. But if they did ...

18/09/2023

Keeping on the recycling theme - wonder if people can guess what this will be turned into .... NO it won’t be a chimeniera!

18/09/2023

WHAT a training area ...... !!!!

18/09/2023

When we first moved down here - a little informal training up on Helman Tor. 1 - teaching young Reece Classic the Bo (how young were you!!), 2 - Reece bottles it and runs away (looks a little suicidal there doesn't it! LOL) 3 - Got to do the Cobras Kai Karate Kid pose, eh? Plans for lots more training up there next summer ....

18/09/2023

What do you do when you find an old cast iron bath in yr Cornish Hedge? Why, you get out the big disk-cutter and you turn it into a fire pit/barbeque of course .... Works really great actually.

18/09/2023

We needed to open a new entrance to the Glamping site through our other 2 fields. Got to say, a few years on it still looks great and definitely better than most of even the local Cornish Boyz build ...