Milkweed & Teasel

Thursday, 19 April 2012

Eggshausting

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This must be the start of my egg pun series. Feel free to contribute your own in the comments section. Mike and I are both so tired that w...
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Monday, 16 April 2012

Weaning Day

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The new handling yard at Milkweed is working. All but my grumpy ewe went into the enclosure this morning. I soon changed her mind, by chasin...
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Saturday, 14 April 2012

Quincy's Big Day Out

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Quincy and I competed in our first Gundog Test today. We completed a series of 3 tests: field retrieves, water retrieves, and hunted retriev...
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Thursday, 12 April 2012

Fun with Sheep

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Heavy persistent showers have driven me indoors and forced me to do battle with my pile of paperwork - bills, tax returns, overseas voting f...
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Tuesday, 3 April 2012

And I thought they only contained monkeys...

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Our weather has been so consistently sunny and freakishly warm that I've refused to come in until dark. Lots of outside jobs are done, i...
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Thursday, 22 March 2012

March Madness

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Spring has arrived in our part of Dorset. We were spared a hard winter this year, so the transition was nearly imperceptible, unless you tak...
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Friday, 9 March 2012

I'll have to ring you back...

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Retrievers are wonderful dogs. In fact, I have three: two Labradors and a Flat coated Retriever. To say that I both love them as companions ...
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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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