Milkweed & Teasel

Occasionally all the death gets to me. I'm not complaining. The result is one nearly-full freezer, including a deer, one and a half lamb...

If I was ever qualified to write a book on a subject, it would be doing a job with only half the knowledge and a limited box of tools. That ...

Today was the final day. The bet was that I couldn't finish knitting my cardigan by midnight on 30 May - Ta Daa ! . E ven though my ...

The clocks went back last night. In my old life, that gave me an extra hour in bed which I used to fixate on with an unhealthy obsession - a...

I've been given my first beat to look after, temporarily, as Mike's underkeeper is on paternity leave. A beat is a huge pen full of ...

This weekend, I finished spinning and plying 2 hanks of Jacob wool from the estate's flock. I spun the wool semi-worsted so it will be l...