After more shouting and threatening one old man came to the gate and asked me what I would like from them. So I said that they were not to go up the lane without having the courtesy to knock on my door. That they were not to hunt with dogs, never to go on my land, that they would not hunt the valley more than twice a year and only with my agreement and at my say so.
After some more aggression from the one chap, the rest agreed. I let one vehicle pass to collect their dogs which were loose up the valley. The rest went away.
After about 20 minutes I heard a vehicle coming down the lane and presumed it to be the guards( police) it was the old man. He asked to come in, and we sat in the garden and talked about how he remembered my farm as dilapidated sheds, the work that I had done with my own hands on the cottage, land and garden. He asked if I had a problem with Mink and I told him how a mink had killed my favourite ducks the year before, he said that he would come back next weekend and lay traps for me, that he would shoot mink up the valley for me and that there would be no further trouble.
He said that he had never seen anyone look more determined, more adamant and more terrified in his whole life. He said that for one woman to come into a situation with a group of armed men who had been drinking all morning and to stand there unarmed and to stand my ground was one of the sights in his life that he will never forget.
The last time I looked down the barrel of a gun, my first husband was on the other end of the gun, he had in a drunken rage beaten me yet again, taken his gun out of its cupboard and was now holding it to my head and threatening to kill me – again. Today, I stopped the hunt in my valley, today I stood out from under the shadow of my violent ex husband and stood in the sunshine of the love and caring that all my male friends have shown me, today I became a stronger person.
Today, I think of all those men and woman that are in violent relationships and am gratefull that I managed to get away.
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After more shouting and threatening one old man came to the gate and asked me what I would like from them. So I said that they were not to go up the lane without having the courtesy to knock on my door. That they were not to hunt with dogs, never to go on my land, that they would not hunt the valley more than twice a year and only with my agreement and at my say so.
After some more aggression from the one chap, the rest agreed. I let one vehicle pass to collect their dogs which were loose up the valley. The rest went away.
After about 20 minutes I heard a vehicle coming down the lane and presumed it to be the guards( police) it was the old man. He asked to come in, and we sat in the garden and talked about how he remembered my farm as dilapidated sheds, the work that I had done with my own hands on the cottage, land and garden. He asked if I had a problem with Mink and I told him how a mink had killed my favourite ducks the year before, he said that he would come back next weekend and lay traps for me, that he would shoot mink up the valley for me and that there would be no further trouble.
He said that he had never seen anyone look more determined, more adamant and more terrified in his whole life. He said that for one woman to come into a situation with a group of armed men who had been drinking all morning and to stand there unarmed and to stand my ground was one of the sights in his life that he will never forget.
The last time I looked down the barrel of a gun, my first husband was on the other end of the gun, he had in a drunken rage beaten me yet again, taken his gun out of its cupboard and was now holding it to my head and threatening to kill me – again. Today, I stopped the hunt in my valley, today I stood out from under the shadow of my violent ex husband and stood in the sunshine of the love and caring that all my male friends have shown me, today I became a stronger person.
Today, I think of all those men and woman that are in violent relationships and am gratefull that I managed to get away.