Country Matters
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Country Matters

A Countryside Companion: 74 tips, tales and talking points

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eBook - ePub

Country Matters

A Countryside Companion: 74 tips, tales and talking points

About this book

Everything you wanted to know about the countryside, but were too afraid to ask 'A joyful companion with surprises and delights on every page'
Tristan Gooley, author of The Walker's Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs 'Highly readable and scrupulously balanced'
John Wright, author of The Forager's Calendar 'Lovely, luminous'
Bella Bathurst, author of Field Work Need advice on how to raise a chicken or pluck a pheasant? Wondering how to train your dog, catch a mole or sneak through a field of cows? Perhaps you're after the secret to the fattest pumpkin, the wormiest compost, the classiest snowdrop?Or are you simply in love with our captivating landscapes, keen to unlock the history and culture of our woods and fields, our footpaths and boundaries, our meadows and moors?In this delightful and eye-opening book, Meg Clothier and her father, Jonny, combine decades of practical know-how with a passion for literature and lore - braced up by a keen understanding of the conundrums of the contemporary countryside.From hedges and holloways to henges and ha-has, Country Matters brings the world beyond our towns and cities - its pleasures and perplexities, its dilemmas and delights - to entertaining and illuminating life.

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Information

Publisher
Profile Books
Year
2023
eBook ISBN
9781782838814

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Welcome
  7. The soil
  8. Town mice, country mice
  9. Toponymy, or what’s in a name
  10. Farming: past
  11. ‘The Mores’
  12. Good fences make good neighbours: the hedge
  13. Walking
  14. Cow bingo
  15. From Pride and Prejudice
  16. Walking children
  17. Lime, limestone, lime kilns
  18. Farming: present
  19. ‘To a Mouse’
  20. Good fences make good neighbours: posts and wire
  21. Meadows, ancient and modern
  22. The woods and the trees
  23. Old-school trees
  24. New-school trees
  25. A Shropshire Lad, 2
  26. Good fences make good neighbours: the hurdle
  27. How to plant a wood
  28. Ticks
  29. Firewood
  30. From The Return of the Native
  31. Bonfires, seven uses, two sizes
  32. Baking bread
  33. Cheese, a good news story
  34. Back to the land
  35. Chickens
  36. ‘The Fox’
  37. Hunting
  38. ‘A Father’s Advice’
  39. Shooting
  40. From Tess of the d’Urbervilles
  41. Poaching
  42. How to pluck a pheasant
  43. How to have a really well-behaved dog
  44. Rural rebels
  45. ‘Lob’
  46. Fishing
  47. Eels
  48. Poohsticks
  49. ‘Heaven’
  50. Metaphorically speaking
  51. A very big house in the country
  52. ‘Caribbean Eye over Yorkshire’
  53. Oh, do grow up!
  54. From ‘Goblin Market’
  55. And is there jam still for tea?
  56. Horses and ponies, 1
  57. Horses and ponies, 2
  58. Gardens, gardeners, gardening
  59. Ten commandments
  60. Good fences make good neighbours: the ha-ha
  61. From Sense and Sensibility
  62. Superweeds from across the seas
  63. Of moles and mole-men
  64. The kitchen garden
  65. The descent of veg; or what does F1 actually mean?
  66. Foraging
  67. ‘The Cold Earth Slept Below’
  68. O come all ye pagans
  69. How to grow the biggest and best and scariest pumpkins
  70. Stones, still standing
  71. Crop circles
  72. Which snake am I?
  73. Horror
  74. Mad cows and Englishmen
  75. ‘Loud Without the Wind Was Roaring’
  76. The uplands
  77. Sheep explained, somewhat
  78. Good fences make good neighbours: the drystone wall
  79. Farming: future
  80. ‘The Tables Turned’
  81. Acknowledgements
  82. Copyright permissions