We have two pigs, and ducks and geese.

A cow would not answer the keep: we have whatever milk we want from T.Poole." There is a suspicious regularity about this schedule.

Lamb wrote from London in January: "Is it a farm that you have got?
And what does your worship know about farming ?" His agricultural activity, in the month of February, must have been chiefly prospective; and we may safely assume that Poole supplied other things besides milk, and that the poet spent more time reading, dreaming, and talking than he did raising potatoes.

A good deal of time must have been spent in the actual composition of his poetry, including his play "Osorio," which was written in 1797, and in studying the landscape beauties of the Quantocks.

After the coming of the Wordsworths to Alfoxden he spent much of the time walking between Alfoxden and Stowey, or further afield with Wordsworth and his sister.
"My walks," he wrote afterwards, "were almost daily on the top of Quantock, and among its sloping coombs.