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'She may come from farming stock, but this is a country girl who subcribes to Heat magazine instead of Farmer's Weekly...

Traditionally, shearers are young, tanned, topless, muscle laden types

The hot weather has been slowly kicking in lately and our woolly friends have been getting a bit hot under the collar.

If I hear one more thing about swine flu I might lob a packet of bacon at the wall.

If I hear one more thing about swine flu I might lob a packet of bacon at the wall.

If your peaceful Sunday was disturbed by an irate cow in your garage, let me apologise now.

If your peaceful Sunday was disturbed by an irate cow in your garage, let me apologise now. It was the result of some cattle herding which went adrift last weekend.

Picnics aren't what they used to be. They're better.

In true Easter Monday style, I meandered on down to Lockinge Point to Point this week and I discovered that picnics aren’t what they used to be. They’re better.

Roadside Farming: All you need to know.

I took a trip around rural Essex this weekend and did a spot of roadside farming on the way.

Spring has definitely sprung

It’s lambing time across the nation and no where is this more true than in south Oxfordshire.

Woe betide anyone who ever crosses the path of a horny gander

Woe betide anyone who ever crosses the path of a horny gander, especially at night. Coming face to face with this testosterone-fuelled bird and you may have met your match.

“Write a blog,” he said. “It will be fun.”

Those were the boyfriend’s wise words a few months back . . . and I believed him.