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 The Demon Butcher of Beckley
Lights flickered in the farmhouse kitchen. Snow swirled outside. A Little Owl shrieked as it veered between the ice-laden branches of the great oak. Somewhere, a wolf howled. Well, that bit’s not true. But this is…. Uttering tiny grunts as she swung the hatchet, a light sheen of sweat on her brow, wiped swiftly with [...]
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By Cakes
Best friend Lisa stayed with me this weekend while Christopher went to Norfolk to visit his parents. Best friend Lisa came to help with a very specific activity – cake making. We weren’t just making any cake, we were experimenting in order to find the perfect cake recipe that we will use for Christopher’s 60th [...]
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Keep Fit
Training session this morning. Once a week I visit Scott’s house in the village and we train in his shed. This isn’t as strange as it sounds. Scott is a personal trainer with a fully equipped gym in a sort of wooden lodge in his back garden. And for the first time since I was [...]
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Power Cut
Today the electricity was off between 9am and 4pm. We knew it was going to happen in advance – some cabling was being replaced in the lane. We are well equipped to cope with power cuts (they happen often here in the country). Our heating is all wood fired, so despite the arctic weather, we [...]
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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.
