Milkweed & Teasel

Monday, 22 November 2010

Walking Wounded

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A small selection of this evening's meds Walking is a misnomer. Limping wounded. Everyone's sidelined to some extent. I have a husb...
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Sunday, 14 November 2010

Upkeep

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There's quite a bit to looking after sheep, but none of it difficult or unpleasant. In fact handling sheep, once you get the technique r...
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Friday, 5 November 2010

Sheeps Week

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We're in a phase of adjustment here in Dorset. The clocks went back last Sunday and we're still adjusting to losing that precious la...
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Wednesday, 27 October 2010

Strange Fruit

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I have stumbled across a crop of medlars. I say 'stumbled' like it was part of some grand adventure. Really, the tree is just at th...
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Thursday, 21 October 2010

The Whistle Blower

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Mike came home from the feed store this afternoon with rolled barley for the sheep, and this for me: If you've never seen one before, ...
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Sunday, 17 October 2010

Learning Curves and Hedge Funds

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I always thought of spring as the busiest season. Trees bursting into bud, seeds needing to go in, baby animals being born and all that. I...
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Saturday, 16 October 2010

Fresh out of the oven

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These twin Dorset ram lambs arrived Thursday. Mother and young are doing well - Mom and her two boys This little ewe lamb was born today, ...
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Jennifer Montero
Two decades ago I left New England for olde England with nothing but my books and degrees in anthropology and art history. After some years toiling in various museums and historic sites, I decided to pursue my passion for the outdoors and enrolled in agriculture college. While working as head gardener on an estate in Dorset, I met my husband, a gamekeeper. His is one of those archaic jobs that only appear in Hardy novels and episodes of Downton Abbey. We now live and work together on a private estate raising game birds. Life in the country is not all bunting and cream teas—more blisters and cold rains. But with a dog leash in one hand and my Debretts Guide to British Etiquette in the other, I am conquering the British countryside, training dogs, caring for pheasant chicks, battling predators, and cooking. LOTS of cooking. In my spare time I tend a flock of sheep, and in winter I butcher and sell local game and wild food. It's hard work, but it's never dull. So sit, read, and laugh along. And be glad that you work in a temperature-controlled building like a normal person
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