Milkweed & Teasel

Friday, 28 January 2011

Almost there

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There are three more days left of the shooting season. We have 53 shoot days under our belt. I think we are going to make it. Just. As wit...
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Friday, 14 January 2011

Comings and Goings

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Eudora has come through her recent illness with remarkable vigour. Although she was loathe to give up the special molasses feed on offer in ...
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Wednesday, 12 January 2011

A bit of background

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For those of you reading the blog who aren't members of my family (and I still can't believe you find this engaging enough to come b...
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Tuesday, 4 January 2011

Sheep and Deer and Fox and Dogs

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I got up this morning in anticipation of catching the partial solar eclipse, but instead I was treated to the flat grey fog that England is ...
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Friday, 31 December 2010

Eudora Update

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That's looks like a sheep on the mend, doesn't it? She's not out of the woods yet. We're less pessimistic, not yet optimis...
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Wednesday, 29 December 2010

dammit...part deux redux

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We're back to the Listeriosis diagnosis again. Eudora the sheep is exhibiting clinical signs more commonly associated with Listeriosis: ...
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dammit....part deux

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The vet's been. After examining Eudora, he thinks it might be CCN - cerebrocortical necrosis. Also known as Thiamine deficiency. The rum...
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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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