Nurturing the dream of a retreat where her growing family could embrace the great traditions and simple pleasures of a rural existence, the writer and broadcaster Paula Yates moved to the country. After ten years of village life, she takes readers, season by season, through a typical year, from rearing sheep to joining the Women's Institute, and from entertaining house-guests to her burgeoning relationship with the vicar. The book presents a humorous view of the eccentrics and eccentricities of English country life.