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Low life
The temperature gauge needle heeled hard over into the red. ‘Not again,’ I said to Oscar, sitting beside me on…
Don't be fooled by the cosy veneer. It’s carnage in South Northamptonshire
My time as a duck-keeper seems to have come bloodily to an end. I have had ducks on my pond…
My tenant is being haunted. Possibly by my brother
I used to enjoy the ghost stories of M.R. James, but I’ve never actually seen a ghost or even believed…
The children’s author BB had the right idea about man’s part in nature
Wild Lone is one of the most violent books I’ve ever read. It was published just before the last war…
A Finnish man was fined £83,000 for speeding because his annual income is £10.1 million
I have rather a poor record for speeding over the years. I have been caught by cameras quite often, sometimes…
Freedom for my chickens! All it took was a man with a gun
If I haven’t mentioned my poultry for a while, it’s because the subject has been too depressing. I had been…
Would the urine of an eight-year-old protect my chickens?
I was predicting in a recent column that the arrival of spring would be bad news for my poultry, and…
A dog mess or two is not too high a price to pay for an owner’s happiness
A month ago I was reporting complacently that peace and calm had returned to Stoke Park after a series of…
