The animals

The chickens, bantams, rabbits and the …

Pannage…

Pannage is the name in the New Forest for anti-acorn operations, when pigs are allowed on to the common land…

5 months ago

A Swallow doesn’t…

Know what it’s doing. I posted this on Facebook: “ Swallows in on my mind. They arrive here in April,…

9 months ago

Necessity is the…

Mother of invention, it is said. Shearing time for the girls, time to get rid of the winter overcoats and…

9 months ago

Grass cutting is easy…

Grass cutting is easy. Up and down lines neatly adjacent, stop, empty the collector into the barrow (found on the…

10 months ago

About time too…

When we moved here, nine years ago (coming up) we had an unbelievable selling situation with the purchasers taking the…

10 months ago

Ashes to ashes…

A lovely day to scatter George’s ashes with Rosie’s under her tree. Thanks to the pair of you, you taught…

10 months ago

A love story…

A love story, or how anthropomorphism (our ability to turn animal things into human perspectives) is alive and well. An…

10 months ago

Taylor update…

Five weeks in and we have taken the hard decision to return her to the rescue charity. She is an…

10 months ago

15 days in…

and Taylor is settling in well. Well, not so well maybe. Following the sad and quick demise of George (his…

11 months ago