Annathevet turned up last week on one of her many professional/coffee-with-a-friend visits to Swallowtail Hill. She speculated that it could prove extremely difficult explaining to her other friends what she got up to with me. She rehearsed a conversation out loud: “So what do you and your friend Sarah like to do? Go on spa [...]
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By Naughty Nurses
The very first television soap I remember was called Emergency Ward 10. Nurses in crisply starched frocks crackled through the wobbly cardboard set on their way to an assignation with a dishy doctor or to soothe the sweaty brow of someone who’d fallen off the tram. I think that’s why, years later, I became obsessed [...]
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By Sheep Identification, The DIY Vet And A Chicken Escape
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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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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Broody Hens
Big Fat Momma is in the Cooler again. I’ve renamed the Chicken Coop the Chicken Clink, as it was the only way to make sense of Christopher’s ridiculous monikers for the newest generation of chickens. They all sound like prison names to me. So BFM – the queen of The Clink – is currently in [...]
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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.
