An Habitation Enforced

[poliphilo]

After six months on the farm I'm beginning to feel twinges of ruralism.  I even look the part;  in the thick wool jacket that used to be my father's and my Yorkshire wool cap,  I walk round my mother's fields and worry about them. The fields miss their sheep. There are corners where  the tussocks are so deep and thick it's like walking on a lumpy mattress. Yesterday I noticed how many self-sown saplings there are popping up around the existing trees. Leave the land ungrazed and unmanaged for another ten years and it'll revert to woodland.

I need to discuss all this with Matthew . 

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Ailz keeps mentioning goats. I don't know how serious she is...

I suppose pipes went out of fashion because they were seen to be "square". What it needs is for some celeb to start smoking one. As you say, they're better for you than cigarettes.

[veronica-milvus.livejournal.com]

If you get goats, you are going to need a cheesemaker. Goats' cheese is piss easy to make BTW, and in the summer you could loll around the farmers' markets with a jolly stall of cheeses, in a straw hat, making dour remarks about the weather.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Not really the future I'd envisaged for myself....