I bought this book to give as a gift but had to keep it. There are 50 illustrations by the painter Hannah Dale of baby birds and animals in Flying the Nest: The early days of Britain’s best-loved animals. Each entry also includes some fascinating summaries of the animal’s breeding habits, offspring, and even insights […]
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In the local riding stables there’s a sheep called Woolly who thinks he’s a dog. I wonder what Woolly and the hen were chatting about as the sun shone through the stable’s doors? I took this photo earlier this year but thought it was rather appropriate one as I’m off tonight to a hen’s party.
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I live in a rural valley in the middle of ancient woodlands in West Sussex. Our garden and the fields in this valley are lined with hedgerows and a home to wildlife. But it wasn’t always so. When I was in London I noticed the signs of spring because I always had a garden. We
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This week my twins were thrilled by the experience of bottle feeding some baby lambs. Usually I’m the one in our family that gets rather excited by the sight of baby lambs in the English countryside. It just gives me that spring feeling and makes me think they just look right “In England’s green and pleasant
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My son, a dog and a chicken, yes an unusual trio, resting in the sun outdoors at the stables while my daughter has a riding lesson. The chicken has been slowly getting better after being found injured a few weeks before. They think she might have wandered off and been attacked by a fox. While
I remember the scramble at school on who managed to get the milk first. The best part was the creamy top in the bottle. I was at boarding school in Dorset where fresh local milk was delivered daily. In London the milk float used to deliver bottles every day at our home. Over 30 years
