Milkweed & Teasel

Peggy my butchery teacher is still recovering from her cleaved thumb. But life goes on around her which means pigs are ready for the chop, a...

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 ...

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...

The good weather has broken. Mist has come in as thick as a fisherman's sock. The weather pine cone is closed tight which tells me that...

Poor Peggy. Peggy is our local butcher, and my sometimes butchery mentor . She raises all the sheep and pigs that she butchers and sells t...

I'm glad you asked. Working dogs are compelled to work. It's in their genes. The springers - Jazz, Dulcie, Hazel - are purely shoo...

This year's hatch is officially complete - don't ask me the final tally as it's a keeper's secret how many birds are hatched...