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Fraggle

April 11, 2018by Claire Leave a comment

Fraggle, the little orphan lamb from last year who was accidentally tupped by Kenny the jumping ram, had her baby on Monday evening. It was not an easy labour. I […]

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Good Friends Get It Sorted

March 13, 2018by Claire 4 Comments

I remembered two important things yesterday: dog metacam is good for inflammation and pain relief in goats, if you can’t get to a vet; positive encouragement from a friend can […]

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Animals, Food Truck, shepherding

Apple Juice and Wild Swimming

October 29, 2017by Claire 1 Comment

I don’t know where October has gone to. Things have been busy this week – book deadline looms as usual, but on a more positive front the weather has been […]

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Dogs, gardening, wild swimming

The Problem of Orange Peel

April 28, 2017by Claire 11 Comments

OK, so orange peel is probably only a problem if you are a fanatical, bulk-buying, recycling, home-made, home-grown, no-waste obsessed kind of person who just happens to have 30 kg  of […]

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Animals

Lambing 2017

April 13, 2017by Claire Leave a comment

Lambing has started here on the smallholding, just in time for Easter. Very early this morning Bobtail had triplets, two ewe lambs and a ram lamb. As an over-diligent mum […]

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Animals, Campsite, shepherding

Shingle Street Changes

March 1, 2017by Claire 6 Comments

A few weekends ago friends came to stay and we went to Shingle Street. There have been big changes. The spit that forms the  lagoon has been flattened and has […]

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Dogs, Local Places, wild swimming

Jude’s view

February 17, 2017by Claire 8 Comments

We have a guest photographer on the blog today – Jude. He took some gorgeous photos of the smallholding and animals at the weekend so here is a little slice […]

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Animals, shepherding

Heroic Wild Swimmer and Her Friend

November 14, 2016by Claire 9 Comments

Pete and Alfie came to visit. And on Saturday night, after a glass of wine or two, talking about a swim in the morning seemed like an eminently sensible idea. […]

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Dogs, Local Places, wild swimming

Cuddle Your Dinner

October 29, 2016by Claire 8 Comments

Friends came to visit so we did the decent thing and killed a chicken for dinner. Holly and Jude (7 and 13) have decided to be mainly vegetarian and to […]

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Animals, recipes

Crostata di Fichi (Fig tart)

September 21, 2016by Claire 6 Comments

I have spent the past month or so greedily eating a lot of figs. My lovely neighbours have a beautiful fig tree and they generously deliver little bags of fresh […]

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