When Sarah and her best friend Lisa are together – which is often now that Lisa has her own key to the farm – they adopt a unusual form of communication. They speak loudly very fast, in an unusually high register, and simultaneously. At first I worried about oxygen starvation because they can keep this [...]
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By Dead Duck And The Great Escape
Bert – or was it Ernie? I couldn’t tell the ducks apart – fell victim to a fox the other day. Leaving Ernie – or is it Bert? – in a state of shock, and alone. I am definitely not cut out to be a carnivore. The sight of Bert (or Ernie) strewn around his [...]
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Chilly Chickens And Other Cold Animals
We are all very bored with the snow and the cold now. Red’s cock-a-doodle-doo is hoarse. The doodle-doo bit is almost missing. He sounds a bit pathetic – so I’m giving him a special vitamin tonic in his water to try and help. Vera – the other cockerel has taken this opportunity to make fun [...]
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By Rock and bone and water
Autumn’s chemistry set is working overtime right now producing an extraordinary horizon rather as though a mad painter had chucked his paint pots all over the landscape. There’s even pink in there – spindle berries in the hedgerows looking like Barbie’s jewellery box. That aside us farmers are worried about the lack of rain – [...]
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Bert & Ernie
Now that they’ve settled in to their new home, I thought I should introduce you to Bert and Ernie our Indian Running Ducks. Rather handsome chaps I think. They do quite a bit of running around and are very chatty but obviously, being boys, they don’t do much. I was thinking of getting them some [...]
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This is the story of a rural life, lived by Sarah and Christopher on their 40 acre Wealden farm, near Rye, which they share with assorted animals, wild flowers, trees, an eclectic array of locals and the odd visitor who thinks it's an idyll. Sometimes it is.
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