A Job for all Seasons rug-making

A Job for all Seasons rug-makingMy Small Country Living Many smallholders have plunged in at the deep end and learnt the hard way, through experience. But Phyllida Barstow, author of the childhood autobiography My Animals and Other Family, was already involved in animal husbandry when, as a young woman, she embarked on her own smallholding enterprise. Here is her lively, informative and witty account of her first hand experience throughout her lifetime in Gloucestershire, with

weather permitting

the Roman occupation of Wroxeter and the Battle of Shrewsbury

Once a Flyfisher is a sporting diary which follows the events of a season on the beautiful rivers of Yorkshire

the novel’s themes are as relevant today as then

Trained as a vet in Edinburgh

Henry Kingsley

The north-western remainder of the ancient wilderness which once stretched over a huge part of the country

racing across the landscape of Shropshire’s past from the woolly mammoths of 10

from genteel balls to rowdy tugs-of-war across the local river

patchworks of crops

unpaid labour for jobs that would make today’s Health-and-Safety freaks blench – burning rushes

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