Milkweed & Teasel

Thursday, 30 June 2011

Sheep-for-brains

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It's a confusing time of year for me. And busy. Confusing and busy. During the day I'm checking lambs, sheep, horses, and pheasant p...
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Friday, 10 June 2011

Really Slow Food

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There's been a thread running through my recent reading material addressing the consumption of food: essentially, how people make food c...
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Friday, 27 May 2011

The Angry Pheasant

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Sunday, 22 May 2011

The Stork's visit

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Ten buff orpington chicks hatched in the incubator. I fostered 2 under the pekin hen - And 8 chicks under a buff hen - It seems an unf...
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Monday, 16 May 2011

The Blue Seal Club

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For the past two seasons I've had to get a contract shearer in to shear my small flock of sheep, because I don't have the skills or ...
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Saturday, 14 May 2011

Mike & the Princess

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I blogged recently about our visit from Princess Anne  and thought I would share the photos of Mike meeting the Princess Royal - Mike en...
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Sunday, 1 May 2011

Conjugal Rites

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I didn't get an invite to the royal wedding. Perhaps it got lost in the mail. Maybe a corgi ate it. It was probably a blessing as all th...
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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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