appreciation of the finer things in life
Friday 26th June – our first cria was born to Electra. Orpheus came into the world jet black, fit & healthy.
What we thought would be ‘a little bit of tidying up’ in the woodland became a quite extensive operation – removing an ancient pheasant pen made of twisted mesh half buried in the mud and numerous fallen trees (33 to be precise). At least… Continue Reading “If you go down to the woods today…”
“…200 bricks and 2000 words a day” —Winston Churchill to Stanley Baldwin, 1928 Agonising, back-breaking but very therapeutic and ultimately rewarding. For a change, I’m not talking about wrestling to capture and organise disparate words to form a novel, but piecing more than 13000… Continue Reading “The Great Wall of…”