Milkweed & Teasel

Our neighbour is a cattle farmer, but he's in hospital with back spasms. For sure an occupational hazard in farming, made worse by the a...

In August it was our estate's turn to host the County Fair. It's a lot of work for the staff - estate owners want everything to look...

Summer has finally arrived and brought not just warm, dry days but many of them in a row. It makes it easier to plan big jobs like getting p...

It's still raining so I've decided to have an office day indoors. Well, mostly indoors; I will have to spend a few hours outside che...

I think it's rained for most of June so far. It's cold enough today that I'm wearing a scarf indoors. If I had any wood left I w...

The bulk of my flock gets shorn once a year. Timing depends on a lot of factors: after the last frost has passed but before it gets too hot,...

By men, I mean of the sheep variety. Yesterday I collected a new ram for my flock- His breeders named him Aladdin, but I've shorten...