UK Alpaca yarns have been used by students at Central Saint Martins in London to create garments that won first place in the Gucci Project. The project was six weeks [...]
It was really cold here this morning so the wonderful muck boots that Alex gave me came out of storage. They are so much warmer than all my others and [...]
My marmalade mission was successful and there are 12 jars of the orange stuff waiting to be labelled. While I was at it I decided to make some orange curd. [...]
Wow, we've had some rain, streams running down the fields, the ford at the bottom of the lane huge and giant puddles on the road to Tiverton. I wouldn't want [...]
Someone said the other day 'Are you ready for Christmas?' This always provokes a hollow laugh. I am a bit ready, the red diesel, the heating oil for the house, [...]
Our two fields of weanlings - 23 girls and 17 boys seem to have settled down now and stopped moaning. They have clocked that they come in to the ramp [...]
We had a great sloe gin weekend with Alex, Tom and Matt, making it that is rather than drinking it. Finding enough sloes wasn't particularly easy as the crop is [...]
Unusual experience yesterday when I found a six day old black cria crashed in the field. Rather odd as he had been up in the yard in the morning and [...]
We watched Nigel Kennedy and his band performing their take on Vivaldi's Four Seasons at the Proms a couple of nights ago. I loved seeing Nigel stomping about the stage [...]
The butterflies have suddenly emerged. I counted 15 peacock butterflies yesterday and plenty of Red Admirals too. They look so pretty. Mushrooms are up too and my new batch of [...]
