Milkweed & Teasel

Wednesday, 17 August 2011

But I'm told that bird sh*t is lucky

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It's buck season now, the Glorious Twelfth has marked the opening of grouse season, and our own shoot team has had its annual barbecue a...
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Saturday, 6 August 2011

Cogknitive Therapy

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Occasionally all the death gets to me. I'm not complaining. The result is one nearly-full freezer, including a deer, one and a half lamb...
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Monday, 25 July 2011

And now for something completely different

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If last week was all about death, then this week is all about sex. Sex and birth. I suppose you can't have one without the other. Most...
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Saturday, 23 July 2011

Pottering

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Mike and I managed to take half a day off yesterday. A whole six hours. We squandered it watching the last in the Harry Potter series of fil...
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Tuesday, 19 July 2011

Midpoints

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It's mid-summer in England according to the calendar, if not the weather outside. The apple tree has finished its June drop, letting go ...
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Tuesday, 12 July 2011

The Mystery of Barbara - Revealed!

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This week has been all about death and poop - not mine, I assure you. I warn you now that there is no happy ending, so feel free to skip the...
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Friday, 1 July 2011

Lucky Escape

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I shot this in a hen house at 2.30 this morning - It's only one of this year's cubs, but already old enough to be out by itself d...
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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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