Milkweed & Teasel

Wednesday, 11 February 2015

The Quiet Time

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In spite of the squally winter storms and frozen water pipes, this is a keeper's (and wife's) favourite time of year. Shoot season i...
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Friday, 30 January 2015

Un Gran Regalo

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Look at what came in the post today! A very talented blog reader, who is a friend of the family and lives in Spain, painted this pictu...
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Wednesday, 28 January 2015

The Gun Dog's Working Day - a Brief Pictorial

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Watch, Hunt, Retrieve, Repeat for six hours. Sleep. Wake up. Eat Breakfast, Repeat until 1 February.
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Monday, 26 January 2015

The Scanner Man Can

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Apologies for anyone who has taken the time and effort to compose a comment on the blog, only to have it disappear into the internets somewh...
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Friday, 23 January 2015

Plough Monday

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Last Monday was Plough Monday, the traditional start of the agricultural year in England. It's our "back to work after the Christma...
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Wednesday, 7 January 2015

Our First Shoot Season

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We're nearly through our first shooting season in Hereford. I don't think either of us were truly prepared for how tough the first y...
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Thursday, 16 October 2014

Morning Rounds in the Truck

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All the animals like to see the truck arrive, but for all different reasons. The sheep make full use of it to scratch those hard-to-reach it...
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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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