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DIY Garden Decoration: Wirework
Maisie and I share one huge advantage over the bulk of middle class humanity: we don’t have good taste. Snobby friends from London are constantly having to avert their eyes as they walk around our garden: here’s a painted concrete … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening, My life
Tagged Francis Pryor, garden decoration, Maisie Taylor, wire weaving
Christmas Comes But Once a Year (and when it does, it’s late…)
Strange as it may seem, our lives don’t stop just because one of us is about to appear on millions of people’s television screens, prancing about in the rain somewhere in south Wales. No, sheep have to be fed and … Continue reading
Posted in My life
Tagged cakes, Christmas cake, Francis Pryor, Maisie Taylor, Stir Up Sunday
Preliminary Musings: Hazel Nuts: Britain’s first farmed food?
Prehistory and archaeology are subjects where traditions die hard and where orthodoxies can rule the roost for generations. It must be great to prick balloons, but having said that, I don’t think I’m a great believer in acting the iconoclast: … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Gardening, My life
Tagged archaeology, Corylus avellana, Francis Pryor, hazel, hazelnuts, Maisie Taylor, trees, writing
Bonny Scotland
I’ve got a very soft spot for Scotland, and it’s not just that I like the people, the whisky and Rebus. It’s also got nothing to do with Maisie’s impeccable highland credentials. She hails from Moray, not far from John … Continue reading
Time Team: the End of the Road
Today Channel Four announced that Time Team would cease to be broadcast after Series 20, which goes out early next year. So what went right? How come we managed to keep a big-budget TV series on the nation’s free-view screens … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Broadcasting, Time Team
Tagged cancelled, Channel 4, Francis Pryor, Maisie Taylor, Tim Taylor, Time Team, Time Team cancelled
Design and Country Gardens
Is it just me, or are modern designed gardens almost always urban in style and feel? Some resemble stage sets more than places in the real world. Walking around the ‘gardens’ at Chelsea, I soon crave the sight of flies … Continue reading
Posted in Gardening
Tagged Francis Pryor, garden design, gardening, Maisie Taylor
Ruskin’s View
DON’T PANIC! I’m not about to write about one of Ruskin’s many views on art, life or anything else, for that matter. One of the first and most influential of art critics, Ruskin had loads of views – perhaps even … Continue reading
Posted in Landscape, My life
Tagged Church Brow Cottage, Cumbria, Francis Pryor, John Ruskin, Kirkby Lonsdale, Maisie Taylor, Ruskin's View, Vivat Trust, Westmorland
Coma, Semi-Coma – Full Stop.
It has been an exhausting series of Time Team. The sites have been demanding and as for the weather, well, the least said the better. I think it was at the Machine Gun Corps camp that Raksha told me about … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Broadcasting, Farming, Gardening, humour, Time Team
Tagged Francis Pryor, gardening, Maisie Taylor, Raksha Dave, sheep, sheep farming, Time Team
Booze-less Mondays
I used to think that Russell Brand was a bit of a prat. But last night we watched his documentary (Russell Brand: from Addiction to Recovery) about kicking drink and drug addiction on BBC Three and were both impressed. He … Continue reading
Posted in humour, My life
Tagged alcohol, Francis Pryor, Maisie Taylor
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
