Stone-picking
This afternoon my cousin David and I headed up to the top fields to pick stones. It’s back-breaking work, but …
Monthly Archives: February 2012
WEGOTTHEVISASWEGOTTHE#@*&ingVISAS!!!!
We. Got. The. Visas! Katie has just phoned us from Cambridge, where she’s opened …
Cattle Drive
This morning Frank had to get all of his fifty bullocks to the barnyard for their TB shots. Most of …
Muck-spreading on my Uncle Frank’s farm
The smell of manure lies heavily over the countryside this week in mid-February, and there was muck all over …
On this very spot near King’s College Chapel, my dad and I, 40 years apart . . .
My sister, me, my mother, and my father in a photo taken by our family friend and Cambridge don, Mike …
The Year of Living Englishly 