EPISODE · Apr 5, 2026 · 14 MIN
Episode 7 November_Dec 1948
from My Mother’s Diaries – The Hiltonbury Farming Family Story 1948-1976 · host Andy Vining
As November and December 1948 unfold, Hiltonbury Farm turns inward.The days grow shorter, the air sharper, and attention shifts to keeping both livestock and family safe through the cold. There are frosty mornings, busy kitchens, and preparations for Christmas that sit alongside the ordinary work of the farm.The final entries of the year carry that gentle mixture of fatigue and gratitude — the feeling of having come through another farming year, with its trials and its blessings, and stepping quietly into 1949.
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As November and December 1948 unfold, Hiltonbury Farm turns inward.The days grow shorter, the air sharper, and attention shifts to keeping both livestock and family safe through the cold. There are frosty mornings, busy kitchens, and preparations for Christmas that sit alongside the ordinary work of the farm.The final entries of the year carry that gentle mixture of fatigue and gratitude — the feeling of having come through another farming year, with its trials and its blessings, and stepping quietly into 1949.
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