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Seasonal forays
At the close of the year when all I want to do is pull on cosy boots, thick woollens, and wrap myself up like a pig in a blanket tending to my chilblains in front of a well banked fire, the dark outdo… more →
Debbie Kingsley: bits in print
Seasonal forays
debbiekingsley wrote 1 week ago: At the close of the year when all I want to do is pull on cosy boots, thick woollens, and wrap mysel … more →
First farrowing
debbiekingsley wrote 2 months ago: Back in February I waxed hopeful about the purchase of a permanent pig, and within the month Aunt Ag … more →
The return of the post office
debbiekingsley wrote 4 months ago: A year ago (Issue 9 July/Aug 2009) I, and millions of others, lamented the loss of a local post offi … more →
"Going once, going twice, sold to the woman with a gleam in her eye"
debbiekingsley wrote 6 months ago: It’s surely possible to spend every day at an auction without crossing the county boundary, and with … more →
Hatching and matching
debbiekingsley wrote 8 months ago: That first egg of the season; how I anticipate it. Ducks normally start producing before the end of … more →
A sow of one's own
debbiekingsley wrote 10 months ago: It’s not everyone’s idea of a heavenly scent, but when I don’t have pigs around al … more →
Good Fences
debbiekingsley wrote 1 year ago: Nature and time plot to blur edges, rot posts, tumble stones, but some powerful drive moves us to re … more →
Rural Transport
debbiekingsley wrote 1 year ago: As a teenager in Red Ken’s London I took every advantage of the free public transport; I bussed it a … more →
It's a postcode lottery
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debbiekingsley wrote 1 year ago: There on the verge at the bend in the road that leads to our village is a newly erected gravestone. … more →
Managing the Culm
debbiekingsley wrote 1 year ago: To be honest, I’d never heard the words “culm grassland” until moving to Devon three years ago; not … more →
Grand Designs it ain't
debbiekingsley wrote 1 year ago: When, in March 2005, I peered over the gate down the farm track to the long lime-washed house with r … more →
Sex and the toy-boy
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debbiekingsley wrote 1 year ago: The testosterone of a toy boy is where it all starts. Throughout September and October, Toy-boy the … more →
Observations on farmers and smallholders
debbiekingsley wrote 2 years ago: It’s 8.00pm, it’s cold, and the pub is crammed with farmers, thanks to the vicar who set up the mont … more →
