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It’s not all hugging ponies and sheep around here. Sometimes we have to do real work. And today it was pulling ragwort, a job I loathe because it hurts my back. I have been putting it off all summer but realised I must just get on and do it. Daisy was already out there. She […]
Today I went to town to do everything as quickly as possibly so I could get home again and not have to go back for a while. Well, that’s how I feel about going to town. I also had a hospital appointment. I popped into Jamieson’s Knitwear to re-stock my field. When I had phoned […]
The dogs and I went on a soggy walk in the field. The dogs were looking for bunny rabbitses while I was looking for two errant sheep – Gussie and his mother, Dahlia, who have not turned up for their breakfast two days in a row. But I have been checking them from a distance. […]
Today was bad, very bad. Outside was thick with midges because there is no wind, not even a slight breeze anywhere. We all wore full anti-midge gear. No bare skin anywhere. Some of the sheep went into their field but the oldest three – Lambie, Bert and Ster refused preferring to find a spot that […]
I knew I had a lot to fit in this morning, so I got up an hour early to get the chores over and done with before everything started. And on the dot of 9 our farrier, Jay arrived. Punctuality is not a trait we have ever seen in any farrier. But here he was […]
I had a project I’ve been meaning to do but I knew I would need help, ie someone with artistic flare. I chose Daisy. Lucky Daisy, though possibly not because she did most of the work. I keep everything including a tin box full of old brooches that I can’t sell (tried and failed) and […]
Daisy and I went for a lovely walk with the dogs in Clothie – my separate five acre croft land that is a little way into the open hill grazing. Having climbed the hill, I sat on an old windowsill of the derelict croft house and admired the view, happy that the postman had dropped […]
As a child, I always thought “the Glorious Twelfth” was named solely in honour of me and my birthday. Apparently, I was wrong. Also for today, I get a solar eclipse (it is currently cloudy so I’m not sure if we will see anything) plus the Perseid meteor shower – again, because it’s my birthday […]
Skippy is back on the road now, which is great news and so I thought I would use this morning to muck out the sheep shed which I have noticed was becoming increasingly smelly. I told myself I would only take a couple of Skippy barrowfuls out and pace myself throughout the day….. So I […]
A few snaps from yesterday evening because I thought the weather was fairly impressive. The rain came in fast and furious (and, yes, the sheep came running home to bed). As the shower was finishing up, there was a lovely rainbow over the shed. But sadly no pot of gold, I checked. Anyway, on with […]
