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Words From The Hedge
Jul 6, 20213 min read
You may need nature, does it need you?
I have never been much of a campaigner. Like most people of my vintage, who work in the countryside I went on a Liberty and Livelihood...
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Words From The Hedge
May 6, 20213 min read
Hold you hard boy
In the hedgerows all is busy. The sap is rising, leaves unfurl, blossom blooms and the farmland birds are in the throes of brooding a...
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Words From The Hedge
May 3, 20215 min read
Sole Food
The beaches are full, ranks of fishing boats lay hauled up on the shingle. Craft don't use the Harbour, it is choked, silted and filled...
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Words From The Hedge
Apr 7, 20213 min read
Art in nature, nature in art.
We finished laying a hedge last week at one of our county’s finest old stately homes. 220 yards of mixed hawthorn, hazel, field maple and...
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Words From The Hedge
Mar 6, 20213 min read
The balance of the three legged stool
The Big Farmland Bird Count has been and gone like the snow that lay in the ditches. At Flea Barn we counted a total of 1,888 birds and...
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Words From The Hedge
Feb 3, 20213 min read
Ancient and Modern
Country Diary February 2021- My wife Clare, son Charlie and I attended the film premiere of “The Dig” on Friday. Admittedly this...
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Words From The Hedge
Jan 17, 20216 min read
Living With Extinction
This article was first published in the Shooting Times in March 2020 In an effort to curry favour with the rebels of extinction last...
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Words From The Hedge
Jan 6, 202114 min read
A love letter to the hedge
My chainsaw requires an elaborate series of pumping, priming and lever twisting. Only then, followed by repeated pulls on its cord, can I...
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Words From The Hedge
Dec 2, 20203 min read
Country Diary- Is the future green or grotty?
I was going to concentrate my Country Diary this month on our fantastic Suffolk farmers and producers who not only grow and create some...
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Words From The Hedge
Jul 12, 20206 min read
Woolly Thinking
This is taken from an article I wrote and originally published in The Suffolk Magazine A slightly faded black and white wedding photo...
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Words From The Hedge
Jul 2, 20204 min read
Country Diary- Trees, Cartridges and Angry Birds
At the last election the political parties tried to out do one another with the number of trees they claimed would be planted should they...
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Words From The Hedge
Apr 9, 20206 min read
Gungadin- The racist horse
Back when the world was young, 1989 to be precise, I was a fresh faced trooper in The Life Guards, serving at Hyde Park barracks....
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Words From The Hedge
Apr 2, 20202 min read
Country Diary- Life in the time of Covid 19
In the country it initially seems that little has changed. Farming goes on, cultivating, drilling, spraying etc- all are continuing apace...
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Words From The Hedge
Feb 23, 20203 min read
Love spreads
Yesterday Patrick Barker and I stood in a very wet, windswept meadow. The meadow itself is fascinating. Formerly a grazing meadow from...
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Words From The Hedge
Feb 16, 20203 min read
No place for complacency in the hunger games
On the whole I work in places rich in wildlife. They are abundant in flora and fauna because of the efforts, both physical and financial,...
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Words From The Hedge
Feb 9, 20204 min read
Ask the fellows who cut the hay
We live in a time when our countryside is under threat and we yokels are oppressed. Admittedly it is no new phenomenon_ We have endured...
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Words From The Hedge
Feb 5, 20201 min read
Hedges, Birds and Barkers
Hedge laying demonstration at Lodge Farm Westhorpe On the 22nd of February I will be hedge laying. This may not be thought of as out of...
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Words From The Hedge
Jan 26, 20203 min read
Communicators required
I went to London on the train in October. I fear the Capital. It is too dusty, musty, oppressive and brash for one used to the fresh...
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