Between the lines

September 10, 2017

By far the most exciting thing to happen to me in the middle of a rainy and slightly frustrating week …

New beginnings

January 1, 2017

Thank goodness 2016 is over. I’m not sure things look a whole lot better for 2017, but like all …

April 3, 2016

A little interlude from my tour around the Garden Isle, as I have a little news I wanted to share… …

March 1, 2016

Oh dear. One of my girls has turned into a boy. I’m talking hens: or rather, in this case, cockerels. …

November 17, 2015

One of the gardens I work in I refer to – possibly slightly rudely – as the chicken garden, mainly …

November 9, 2015

It’s been a busy month on the sheep front. My little flock of Dorset Downs is generally pretty low-maintenance: a …

March 20, 2013

The other day on the radio, a scientist was making a convincing case for the fact that we should all …