Milkweed & Teasel

Spring is coming. I've heard the first cuckoo of the year. The blossoms are out on the cherry trees and on the blackthorns in the hedger...

It's pretend spring in England: a few days of t-shirt weather and a sunburn, then we wake up to snow. The animals are sanguine about it ...

How about an update on the horses? You know Kitty, but you haven't met Sam. Sam the day I brought him home, hairy and dusty, just o...

When I go to the village hairdresser, I can bring Miss Betty. While I wait for the hair dye to work on my greys, Faith gives Miss Betty her ...

This time last year, we were still shovelling ourselves out from under a record snowfall. This year we've had record high temperatures a...

My horned ewe did lamb a couple hours after I posted. She popped out a nice healthy ewe lamb, unassisted. The good news is the ewe lamb is a...

This might be kind of a dull post, but there are pictures of cute lambs at the end of it. You can just skip ahead. This year, we built a ...