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	<description>For those who live to loaf</description>
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		<title>Country Diary 95</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 08:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Hodgkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’M AFRAID that I have many animal deaths and disappearances to report. The first is Twister the ferret. About six weeks ago, we separated him from Whisper, the female, because we didn’t want them to have babies. He was vasectomized, and we put him in a different cage to recover from the operation and because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Country Diary 92</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Hodgkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOLLOWING THREE months of neglect, I have finally started work on the vegetable patch. Alan came round and we spent six or seven hours up there with the fork, spade and unrelenting mattock. The first step was to throw out the raised beds. On the advice of gardener Kirsty Knight-Bruce, I have abandoned the idea [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Country Diary 88</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Hodgkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[INSPIRED BY VIRGIL&#8217;S GEORGICS, which I have been reading in the excellent Loeb edition, I have written my first ever piece of Latin verse. It is: Rastris adsiduis glaebas frango Herba insecto arvaque iuvo [With unrelenting mattock I break the clods I harry the weeds and thus improve the soil.] The mattock appears with great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Country Diary 87</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Hodgkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[USING A VERY SIMPLE recipe from Jocasta Innes&#8217;s excellent The Country Kitchen, I made eight pots of hedgerow jam. The first step was to collect the hedgerow fruits. Arthur and I went out with a basket and filled it with sloes, elderberries and blackberries. At home we got out a huge pan and threw the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Country Diary 86</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Hodgkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE OTHER EVENING, as I went to empty the compost bucket into the scruffy bins that I made out of pallets four years ago, I was surprised to see a badger eating up yesterday’s vegetable scraps. He scrambled away but I got a good look at this fine animal. He was large and a little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Country Diary 84</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Hodgkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THANKS TO THE GOOD weather, everything in the vegetable garden has been shooting up. I lifted the early potatoes. There were about ten kilos of them, which at Riverford prices are worth about ten pounds. Delicious, but is it really worth growing potatoes? They are in actual fact quite a difficult crop to grow because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Country Diary 83</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 09:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Hodgkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MAY HAS come at last, the merry month of May, and I have bought a copy of Thomas Tusser’s One Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, first published in the 16th century. Tusser himself was rather a comical and even sad character. He was a failed farmer and it was said of him that never was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Country Diary 81</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Hodgkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Problems with Wood OVER THE LAST two months, we have been mainly concerned with keeping warm. Now that we have two wood-burning stoves, writes Tom Hodgkinson, the amount of work for me in wood-chopping and preparation has nearly doubled. The major problem has been the wood supply. The wood I bought this time last year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Country Diary 81</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Hodgkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ONE MORNING IN MID OCTOBER, I DECIDED THAT I could save a fortune by brewing my own beer. Right now I am spending anything from £1.20 to £2 per bottle of fine ale, and it’s all adding up to a considerable outlay. So I took myself off to the local homebrew shop. I was looking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Country Diary 80</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Hodgkinson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IN THE VEGETABLE GARDEN, not much is happening apart from nasturtiums. There are nasturtiums everywhere: yellow, red and orange. Such a fantastic flower. Very easy to grow, nice to look at and delicious to eat. The pods can be pickled in jam jars for a caper substitute. And at a time when there is little [...]]]></description>
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