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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Spring has Sprung
Of all the plants you can grow in a garden, snowdrops offer the very best value. For a start, they appear at a time when little else is growing, let alone flowering. They’re a sign of hope after a long … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged Galanthus nivalis, hellebores, snowdrops, woodland gardening
The Slave Trade: beginning the end
Next Sunday, and sadly at a ludicrously early time in the evening’s schedule, Channel 4 will be showing an episode of Time Team we filmed last summer in South Wales. In the 19th Century the area around Swansea was the … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Broadcasting, History, Time Team
Tagged Copperopolis, Francis Pryor, Quakers, Samuel Hoare, slave trade, Time Team
Lambing starts four days early
This morning I got up as usual around 5.30 and started work on the blog, writing something to appear before next Sunday, when Time Team is showing one of my sites. At 6.30, as soon as there was enough light, … Continue reading
Posted in Farming
Tagged Francis Pryor, lambing, lambs, Maisie Taylor, sheep, sheep farming
Bronze Age Boats and Those Who Dig Them
I’m proud to say I was once a digger. And I think I was quite a good one – OK, good-to-average – but not in the same class as, say, Phil Harding. Today he’s famous as a Time Team person, … Continue reading
On Sheep and Working Dogs
At last February has arrived, and with it the snow. All around us the guns fell silent as the pheasant shooting season ended on January 31st. My lovely Border Collie was able to come from beneath the wooden settle in … Continue reading
Posted in Farming
Tagged Francis Pryor, lambing, sheep dogs, sheep farming, Welsh border collies
