Milkweed & Teasel

Wednesday, 29 February 2012

Crafty Moment of Geek

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My sister's upcoming birthday was the perfect chance to let my geek flag fly, so I knitted this for her - It's a Dr. Who 'Tar...
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Monday, 27 February 2012

Timing is Everything

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Parsnips. Some for lunch - roasted - and some for soup - curried I spent my Sunday morning digging up the last of our overwintered (read f...
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Saturday, 18 February 2012

Catching up

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On this shoot, we grow our own pheasants every year. This means hatching eggs, which means finding eggs to hatch in the first place. Hunting...
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Wednesday, 15 February 2012

The White Pheasant

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Every year we notice at least one pure white pheasant living wild. This year it survived the entire shoot season, only to die from natural c...
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Tuesday, 14 February 2012

That's how we roll..erm walk..'round here

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Tuesday, 7 February 2012

Apologies

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We're having difficulties here at M&T - primarily technical. Our one computer died last week and it's being repaired, but I'...
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Friday, 13 January 2012

Le Post Prime

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Amelia and Laura - the fabulous women behind Harvest Kitchen Sisters blog - included me as part of their Guest Blogger Series. Can I sugges...
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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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