I drove back to Sussex from Cornwall. After spending a few days with Brenda and dancing with her groups, I headed off to a nearby house sit in a converted barn.
All I had to look after was an aviary of canaries and the tomatoes in the greenhouse, so nothing too stressful.
The lounge room was rather special
The barn where I house sat was right next door to Knepp re-wilding area, a 3,500 acres estate. Since 2001, the land – once intensively farmed - has been devoted to a pioneering rewilding project, as a way of returning to a state of natural productivity. Grazing animals such as pigs, deer, ponies and cattle imitate the range of animals that would have grazed this land thousands of years ago. They help maintain the land, to stop it becoming too overgrown. Animals are culled as necessary, providing slow-grown meat to the local market. No extra feeding is necessary, except in heavy snow. These look like very happy, healthy little piggies, that I met while walking in the area.
The animals need no extra feeding and they can live outside all year round, with woodland and thickets to provide shelter.
The regeneration of the land, and re-establishment of natural water courses, now supports many rare species of birds, bats, butterflies and other wildlife.
I walked through the wilding area to the local pub, very quaint, in a little village called 'Dial Post' Had a lovely lunch here.
The Vintage Car Club was having their monthly get-together at the pub, so there were lots of lovely old cars parked outside.
I rather liked the ladybird mini.
I've been impressed by how many solar farms there are in England. 
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