Milkweed & Teasel

We're past Christmas now and the not-so-festive stomach bug that hit us Christmas day. Mike soldiered on and made Christmas dinner, but ...

I'll admit that most of our animals are touched in the head. Maybe it's a by-product of always adopting the second-hand irregulars, ...

I woke up to our first dusting of snow. After the initial oh..ah..pretty, it was hot kettles to melt the animals' frozen water troughs a...

It's only dawned on me today why women - or at least one person - traditionally worked in the home. In the days before push-button centr...

A quick update from the estate as Christmas preparations are in full swing - Bertie the tree is up and decorated, sitting on a reindeer sk...

Some years ago Mike planted 200 small fir trees as shelter to hold pheasants. He feeds the birds here too (that's what the plastic bins...

Nigel and Bertie have been laying the hedges around our house. They were in pretty desperate need of doing. Hedgelaying is both a skill and...