In my book, An Innocent, A Broad, I wrote about a our experience having our first baby, in London, by accident. In one of the chapters, I discussed the fact that in 1990, there were only 4 channels available to most British viewers: BBC1, BBC2, ITV and Channel 4. It didn’t matter to me that there were not hundreds of satellite channels available then because a) I was nursing an infant every two hours and would have watched programs about paint drying if that’s all they had and b) British television is, and always has been, far superior to what America has to offer, in my opinion. Here’s a little excerpt from my book in which I discuss some of my favorite shows from that long hot summer.
Ann Leary, author of The Good House
Author of The Good House
Clever Bitches and Cheeky Baa-studs
August 3, 2009 by 12 Comments
Year in Review
March 31, 2009 by 38 Comments
Tomorrow will mark the first anniversary of my blog. Today I have decided to do a little retrospective of the year, in photos. As those who have been with me from day one might recall, I didn’t know how to load photos onto the blog in the beginning, so I wrote these rather long-winded entries and was in danger of running out of stuff to write about by week two. Thankfully, I learned how to load the photos and the blog has survived! Here are some of my favorite blog moments in pictures.
Run, Joe, Run
November 9, 2008 by 2 Comments
Thanks to Su, a blog reader, I have learned that the fugitive German Shepherd show I mentioned in my last post wasn’t just a figment of my dog-obsessed imagination. It was a show called, Run, Joe, Run
Here’s the title sequence. I love it. It’s the 6 Million Dollar Man meets The Fugitive meets Lassie
Now I’m wondering if we can create a TV series about the fugitive ewe. Run, Fat-Ass, Run, we could call it. She could have been trained to do some Bourne Ultimatum kind of spy work by the US Government, and now that she’s back in the US, from Iraq, she’s been wrongly accused of terrorist acts against large livestock. She can kill you with her bare hoof, yet she doesn’t even know her name.
I’m going to pitch it to Animal Planet.
This Just In
November 9, 2008 by 6 Comments
My horses have recovered from last Sunday’s sheep attack. I, on the other hand, am still thinking I’m seeing sheep out of the corner of my eye, every time I walk up to the barn. So I actually did a google search for reports about sightings of the sheep in our area and came across this article in the Easton Courier. It’s about a sheep that ran away from its Easton home four months ago. Easton is about a half hour drive from here. Here’s Queenie the missing sheep:
And here’s our attack sheep:
Ewe Better Beware
November 4, 2008 by 5 Comments
Our neighbors Steve and Diana Hochmuth have just emailed me these horrifying photos they took of the attack sheep which apparently decided to include them in its path of terror through Roxbury on Sunday. Here it is in their yard:
And here it is, on its stalking mission to who knows where. Your house could be next!
Can nothing stop it?
People of Connecticut, heed my warning. Keep your livestock inside and your firearms handy. I have two horses who have the worst cast of Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome my vet has ever seen. One of them has bandages on both hind legs. The other is covered in stitches. And this lone bandit gets to trot down the middle of the road as if she’s above the law?
