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Hi. I’m Juliette Mills, @juliettemills2014 taking over Burndiary this week. I’m a photographer, writer and single mother of two very active little boys, with a home full of animals including three horses. We live in the middle of Dartmoor National Park, Devon, in the South West of England, 1000ft above sea level on the edge of the open moor. We have an over-grown Narnia-esque garden and woodland, and are surrounded by sheep and cattle farms. 90% of the national park land is used for hill farming of livestock, which includes many private farms that have common rights to graze their animals on the moor. In many ways Dartmoor feels lost in time. But it is also very forward-thinking with ethical farming and non-profit community farming and vegetable-growing organisations. There is an exceptionally high number of artists, writers and sculptors who have been drawn to live on Dartmoor, joining generations of farmers. Image – Running for the school bus this morning. No matter how early we wake up, the boys always seem to catch the bus by the skin of their teeth or miss it. It picks them up at our gate, but we have a very long driveway. Sometimes I run with them. But if I’m feeling lazy I just send the dogs to accompany them.