We are at that time of year when we start obsessing about The Tortoise. Regular readers will laugh at this – knowing that we spend most of the year obsessing about the tortoise. Ok, you’ve got me there, however it is true to say that this time of year is particularly fraught with anxiety as [...]
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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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Hibernating The Tortoise
So you will be interested to learn that Tonka the Accidental Tortoise has been put into hibernation. This is the most stressful thing that we have ever had to do. We have had 8 major arguments about the subject – mainly because neither of us wants to take responsibility for the fact that Tonka might [...]
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The Tortoise Whisperer
I offer this with little explanation, only in the hope of some sympathy for my plight. I am married to a woman who now spends her afternoons sitting in the tortoise’s run ‘to keep him company’. She takes the farm accounts with her to while away the time when she’s not chatting to Tonka. If [...]
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By Grand Designs
Once upon a time Big Fat Momma, Little Titch and Tonka the One-Eyed Tortoise all went to live in new homes. Big Fat Momma and Little Titch had an enormous caravan to sleep in, with brand new bunk-perches, lots of straw and some old orange boxes to lay eggs in. ‘When you’re a grown up [...]
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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.
