Milkweed & Teasel

Tuesday, 24 September 2013

The Big Picture in a Small Village

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Filming started last week, and the estate is teeming with people in neon yellow vests with radios, and extras in costume drinking coffee out...
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Monday, 16 September 2013

Lambing Live! (and no-so live...)

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Lambing has started, and we've had two births now - one easy, and one fodder for a shepherd's nightmares. Of course I'll start b...
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Friday, 13 September 2013

Bounty-full

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The M&T computer is up and running again - just. It still overheats but I'm going to try and limp it through the winter. I've fo...
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Monday, 9 September 2013

Please Bear with Us...

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We're having technical difficulties here at M&T -- the 'blue screen of death' on your laptop kind of technical difficulties....
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Friday, 16 August 2013

Gluts and Gluttons

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We are in the thick of our busiest season (I feel like I say that in every other post). Our day's work runs from dawn to dark and, with ...
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Friday, 2 August 2013

Opportunities

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We had a month-long spell of hot, dry weather – an actual summer! I’m sporting a farmer’s tan, horsefly bites, and I’m itching from the dri...
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Friday, 12 July 2013

Fifteen Minutes of Fame?

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Mike has had to take time out of his busy schedule being a gamekeeper to play one on TV. There's a new reality show destined for the US ...
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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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