Tag: North Yorkshire

• The Day That You Were Born.

  

  Isabel helped to bring you into the world Theo. She was my midwife. When she wasn’t delivering babies, she’d be delivering lambs or calves on her own farm. She was a large, strong, Yorkshire woman, down to earth and practical. I reckoned that if she could pull a calf out, she wouldn’t have a problem […]

  Lottie Nevin

  May 15, 2013

  Family Life, Uncategorized

  1996, Circle of Life, Entonox, family life, Georgia Grabiner, Hale-Bopp comet, Home Birth, Labour pains, Leonora Grabiner, Living on a farm, Midwifery, Milking goats, Mother love, North Yorkshire, Pateley Bridge, Sons and daughters, Theo Grabiner

• Middle Tongue Bank: North Yorkshire.

    Yesterday evening my daughter Annie sent me an email. ‘Mummy, where is the post that you wrote about Gillbeck?’ For a moment I couldn’t think what she was talking about. I’ve touched briefly on the farm where we once lived, when I wrote the posts ‘Why I shall never eat Babi Guling Part One’ […]

  Lottie Nevin

  August 3, 2012

  Travel, Uncategorized

  Children, Curlews, Education, Fountains Abbey, Gillbeck Farm, HG3 5JF, Middle Tongue Bank, North Yorkshire, Organic farming, Parenting, Pateley Bridge, Ripon, Soil Association, The Woodland Trust, Villager Multi-fuel stoves

• Driving The Vicar

  

  About 13 years ago, I moved with my first husband and our five young children to a small, pretty village on the edge of the Dales in North Yorkshire. We had previously lived in a remote farmhouse high up on the windswept moors and I tended and ran a 40-acre Organic smallholding. We kept goats, […]

  Lottie Nevin

  December 14, 2011

  Family Life, Humour, UK, Uncategorized

  Jakarta, journal, Land Rover, North Yorkshire, travel