Month: March 2022
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Hawthorn Hill Nature Diary: March 2022
The first of the month was a day for the buzzards as they looped and dipped into the curve of each other flight then followed on from treetop to treetop. Broad winged, they circle shared thermals in their courting, their call nailed to wall of the sky like a truth. Everything else hunkers down and […]
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The Farming Lifestyle
Sharpening Day, Chasing Buzzards and the Poetry of Handtools
The files skates across the axe edge. A rasp of a sound whose pitch rises as you push the file across the curved shoulder of the bit. It sounds like a question being asked of the blade. Sharpyet? Sharpyet? Tools are lined up. Axes. Knives. A Tramontina machete. Pocket knives and fixed blade knives. The […]
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