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If you go through into the garden, I'll let the dogs out into the other side.

I lived in the big house up there, I brought my children up, the majority of from the teens

onwards.

We had pigs, sows, pregnant sows. We had ducks, chickens, goats,

dogs, cats. Thirty years ago, a mother of five, will call her Sylvia, moved to a picturesque spot

in West Wales.

It wasn't just the house she loved.

It was the land it came with.

For Sylvia, it was the perfect place to bring up her young children

and fulfil her dream of raising animals.

It was the kind of place where everyone knows everyone. Only one neighbour tried

to warn her that her new home might not be as perfect as it seemed. One old man said to me,

you'll never get sheep to live there. I didn't say why. And I thought

I haven't got sheep, so, you know. It took about six months before Sylvia noticed something

was wrong with her garden. Nothing would grow.

The grass didn't grow.

We didn't get lush long grass in the spring.

It was tan colour in the winter, like it had been burnt.

One day, Sylvia noticed something wasn't right with one of her horses, a black mare.

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