Milkweed & Teasel

Monday, 21 January 2013

The Not-so-Great Escape

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It's humbling to be outsmarted by your animals. I'm used to it with the dogs, but I rely on their smarts - their senses and experien...
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Saturday, 12 January 2013

Rain, rain, go away

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I know it's churlish to complain about the weather, but I hoping the cathartic act of complaining will help me to endure the almost cons...
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Wednesday, 19 December 2012

Poachers and puppies

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It's less than a week until Christmas, and we're being plagued by poachers. A neighbour called to say one of his lambs had its throa...
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Friday, 14 December 2012

Dog Diaries

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Our shoots have been scheduled on the 'feast or famine' program: a week off, three intensive days, another week off, another crazy w...
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Wednesday, 12 December 2012

A Fruitcake that even Americans will eat

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It's twelve days until Christmas, or as the children here say "only 13 more sleeps 'til Christmas morning". Traditionally ...
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Tuesday, 11 December 2012

Of Christmas trees and cobbling together

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This year I broke with tradition and took a husband with me to pick out the Christmas tree instead of a dog who, frankly, didn't have an...
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Monday, 10 December 2012

The freezer is looking better

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The stalker brought back a roe deer this morning - And there were three brace of oven ready pheasants left by the guns today. Cheese ...
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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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