Milkweed & Teasel

This must be the start of my egg pun series. Feel free to contribute your own in the comments section. Mike and I are both so tired that w...

This time last week I dedicated a whole day to all things horse. The farrier came and put on new shoes, the vet came and gave Kitty and Alan...

Apologies for a pictureless post - I'm having a few technical difficulties with the camera I had the great pleasure of meeting Clive y...

Tomorrow's the first day of shooting season for us, the culmination of the hatching, raising, and releasing of all the pheasants and par...

I'm desperate for the weather to turn autumnal so I can wear sweaters and eat more fattening food (which will then be concealed by said ...

I apologise that my posts have been sparse recently and perhaps not my best work. Gamekeepers (and their dutiful wives) are too tired to see...

Everything's growing. The chicken babies are getting bigger; some are foraging without their mothers now. Others are big enough to go to...

Mike went to tray pheasant eggs this morning, ready to go into the incubator, and saw a hoopoe - image from www.birding.in I only ever saw...

It's amazing what two days of back-to-back sunshine will do for your humour, and for your productivity levels. There are hints of the s...

There is a small shelf in the kitchen. One half is the "nature table" - found fossils, interesting seeds pods and bug carapaces. T...

Image from http://www.horsechannel.com/ The dogs and I have had 12 days in the shooting field so far this year, and it's now painfull...

If it's not one pest, it's another. We're getting on top of the fox problem at 'The Hill' but now buzzards are giving th...

Our partridges were delivered at 8.30 yesterday morning, and it was "all hands to the pump" to finish the pens. I ran ahead to se...

After our dreadful hit from a fox yesterday, the day just got worse. The farrier came to shoe our horses, both of which behaved appallingly....