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 Bee Keeping: Lesson One
We nearly caused a major diplomatic incident last week. For a moment, a vision of helicopters overhead spewing Kevlar clad SAS troopers down ropes to secure the farm flashed across my mind. This brief moment of terror was triggered when Sarah and our friend Liz (who, as a matter of complete irrelevance, is the person [...]
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By Pig Wreckage
I am extremely angry with Hilary and Smiler. We’ve been more than generous to them and they have the run of the orchard since we understood that Kune Kune’s were grazers not rooters. I am afraid to say that I think they might be mixed race since they’ve started to destroy the orchard by grubbing [...]
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The Fall-Over Twins
I continue to be frustrated at the lack of a nick-name since everyone else round here has one. They are largely invented by the Paine Twins. I have asked them several times if I could have one but so far they’ve been unable to come up with anything other than ‘Sir Christopher’ which is merely [...]
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Posh Party
This evening we went to London to the 50th party of a friend of Christophers. It was held in the birthday boy’s art gallery. It was a posh-do. I am not used to posh parties. I feel a little bit like Eliza Doolittle – I get anxious that I might accidentally say something rude or [...]
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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.
