Deep Fat Frying day is becoming almost as traditional as Christmas at Swallowtail Hill. The deep fat fryer is the one kitchen gadget that doesn’t get used very often a) because it would be exceptionally bad for our health and b) because I hate the job of cleaning it, but we allow the use of [...]
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By Farm Fashion
Yesterday I realised I have become one of the farmer wives whose sense of style so shocked me when I first moved to the country. Back then, fresh from London, I wouldn’t have left the house without dressing up. Don’t get me wrong, I was never slavishly fashionable, nor perhaps even stylish, but I did [...]
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What to do with the extra cock
More building work has been required in a hurry. Two of the most recent batch of chickens have suddenly put on a growth spurt and it’s very obvious that they aren’t hens, they’re cocks. This gives us two problems. First – they are called Red and Vera – and while Red is more than happy [...]
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Greek God Flirts With Sarah
We had a holiday last week. This is a tectonic shift in the otherwise peaceful rhythm of Swallowtail Hill, brought on largely by the threat of divorce. ‘If you don’t take me on holiday soon I will divorce you’ is approximately what Sarah meant when she said ‘If you don’t take me on holiday now [...]
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By Sarah Gets Another Badge
Sarah has, I am afraid to report, an addiction. A dependency. A fix she needs more of now she has the taste for it. She can’t get enough qualifications. The postman brought her most recent one the other day – a Learning Outside the Classroom certification, and a badge she can hang on the farm [...]
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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.
