Milkweed & Teasel

We hired a digger driver to come and level a spoil heap on Milkweed Farm. I contemplated hiring a 1.5 tonne digger and doing the work myself...

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 ...

Underkeeper Pete organised a fox drive last night. The concept is a few people with guns stand in a field on the edge of a woodland while o...

I think the fox cub in the trap was a portent of things to come. These warm evenings mean we can sleep with the window open. Besides a ple...

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

The chicks keep coming. We had our third hatch yesterday, pheasant and partridge - 3 down, 6 to go. We had students from the local gamekeepi...

My practical skills are improving all the time. So are my improvisation skills - think 'MacGyver' improvising, not 'standing in ...