Spirit of the season in a farmyard well

St Dominick, Cornwall The holy well has a bellcote-like turret, crocketed pinnacles and a shallow bath fed by spring water

For sale, beside a stack of 8ft long straw bales at Dupath, are Christmas trees with silver-tinged, non-drop, needles. Later in the week Norway spruce will be cut from the farm's own plantation and sold at a cheaper price. On Christmas day the farmer's family will host a community lunch in their converted barn restaurant.

Nearby, a yard shelters Friesian calves with access to automatic feeders, and, in another wide-span building, a new straw-spreading machine distributes bedding around two-year-old bullocks, an indoor herd fed on silage.