I was woken on the Sunday before Christmas by the mountains roaring . . .    It came from far […]

I was reading Roy Hattersley’s thoughtful article in the Guardian in which he tried to balance his compassion for dumb […]

Does anyone today remember the “Lamb War” ?In 1980 you couldn’t open a newspaper without reading about British farmers marching […]

The wind has an edge to it. The grass has a squelch to it as it’s hey-ho for Autumn. In […]

  I started thinking about maternal love today. John Bowlby, in his book Child care and the Growth of Love, vividly […]

I don’t usually watch much television, especially during the lambing season, but at the moment the focal points of my […]

“THE SHEPHERDESS LOOK for Spring” reads the caption in the glossy magazine propped up on my kitchen table. I gaze […]

A glass of ginger wine, a hearth full of flaming elm logs and all is peace. I can relax. This […]

Hornets suffer from a bad press . . . their reputation unfairly prejudicing their chances of a quiet life.   It […]

Jennifer Rees chews the cud over the idea of ovine dentures False teeth for sheep? I did think neighbour Bill […]

Counting Summer’s lambs Dogs are away up the hill and round the flock of Club and Radnor ewes grazing in […]

I wrote this article after reading Rupert Sheldrake’s account of American ranchers painting white stripes across roads to act as […]

“The Government’s determination to allow beef bulls to run loose on public footpaths . . . .” On reading that […]

My primeval Instincts got me a star spot in one man and his dog

   ‘The Summer that never was’ has long since gone, taking with it the misery of that wretched holiday spent […]

The following essay,‘The Ox-Pasture’ won the £500 first prize in the  Kenneth Allsop Memorial Competition Judged by a panel composed […]