I have enough trouble recognising humans I’ve known for a long while – there’s a medical name for extremes of this, but Sarah puts it down to my increasingly childlike personality and basic stupidity. Sometimes I don’t recognise her on purpose, as a form of counter measure. Recognising sheep however is on a whole different [...]
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By Tonka Wakes Up And We Adopt More Sheep
It’s been a while since I’ve updated you all on the latest news from the farm, so here are a few snippets to bring you up to date. Tonka the tortoise is officially out of hibernation. He survived! This was a huge relief. Had he not made it the consequence undoubtedly would have been the [...]
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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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Super Heroes
The topic of conversation over dinner the other night was – if you were a super hero, who would you be? And Christopher said instantly ‘Mega Boy’. ‘What does Mega Boy do?’ I asked. ‘EVERYTHING but MEGA’ he replied. For those readers who are new to the blog I should add at this point that [...]
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Lambing Malpresentations (or – what to do when a lamb gets stuck coming out)
So I was in the middle of a field looking for Victoria my missing sheep and I spied her in the distance by the hedge, clearly in labour. I got a bit closer so that I could see how far along she was and run through the checklist of things that could go wrong and [...]
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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.
