So, here we are, sitting happily in our cosy little nest, while just down the road from us, and six hundred feet or so below it, the relentless cutters of the longwall mine machine advance, cutting a seven-foot high and eight-foot-at-a-time wide swath, eight hundred or so feet long, of coal, which is dumped onto… Continue reading They Are Coming
Category: Farming
Entertaining Angels: Four-Legged Ones, Mostly
November 22 is certainly the anniversary of one of the most unpleasant surprises of my life. Three weeks into our wholesale transfer of family and belongings from Nigeria, via England, to Brookline, Massachusetts, my mother picked me up from my fourth-grade class at Edward Devotion School, and on our way up the steps to our… Continue reading Entertaining Angels: Four-Legged Ones, Mostly