Smoking

You remember the mackeral I caught with my friend on the little yellow boat yesterday when we went sea-fishing, well, I took most of them home because I blithely said “no worries, I can smoke…

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Sea Fishing

If you know one thing about me, it is that I hate boats.  I am terrified of them and there are many reasons:- They make me feel sick (all of them). I hate getting in and out (I fell in once). Peopl…

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The Fight Continues

My internet battle has not changed despite all my best efforts. Last night, I ended up re-setting everything, taking away two routers so we are now down to just one.  My thought being there would b…

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Eplekake

Making cakes is not really my thing but the ducks have been laying well and we have a lot of eggs to use up. So I made my variation of a Norwegian Eplekake (apple cake). Leftovers were the mixing b…

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A New Trick

I learned a new photographic trick today and I tried it out on the Shetland ponies (and even Lambie), who were around alternating between eating their afternoon haynets and sheltering from the sudd…

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A Few Odd Ones

Nothing much to say today as in absolutely nothing has happened except for the weird photos I found that I took throughout the day. This was Monster first thing in the morning telling me all about …

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Back to Dog Walks in the Flowers

As Pepper has now had her two stitches out (and, apparently she was a very brave soldier), I thought she could start going for a walk again, but only short ones and strictly supervised. So I decide…

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Breakfast for All and Cat TV

There is an order to my mornings. The older horses and ponies are last on my catering list, after the sheep and the other Shetland ponies.  However, they don’t mind and I leave them with thei…

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A Funny Old Day

Winter seems to have returned today and we are all grumbling.  It was 12°C with a mean F7 westerly so about 8°C.  Brrrr. I spent my morning productively taking the internet to bits.  Our whole netw…

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Poor Monster (Sort of)

According to Monster, there is a special place in Hell waiting for me. OH and I were invited out to have a curry in town yesterday evening.  So we fed everyone early, I carried Monster outside as h…

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Poor Monster (Sort of)

According to Monster, there is a special place in Hell waiting for me. OH and I were invited out to have a curry in town yesterday evening.  So we fed everyone early, I carried Monster outside as h…

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Doing Everything Early

I’m going into town for a meal later so have had to do everything early. It is also raining so that is helping too. The sheep also wanted in at lunchtime and the Shetland ponies were in their…

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Dentist Aftenoon

Today the equine dentist arrived.  I had everyone all ready. And gave them a pep talk mentioning good behaviour, and that I would be there, etc.  This was the first time the ponies had met our equi…

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Trigger Happy

I am a great believer that sleep is when your body does its best healing so when Pepper finally switched off this afternoon, we all breathed a collective sigh of relief. But mostly she is awake, tr…

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Da Gairdins Visit

I spent a lovely, if blowy, morning at Da Gairdins in Sand, 4 miles north of Skeld. A 60 acre site of woodland and gardens open all year round for everyone to visit. And I had never been before (I …

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Greasy Forelocks and Manes

When I was in the field this morning, I noticed that the old horses and ponies had greasy clumpy forelocks and thought to myself I must do something about this.  I’ll do it later – Maña…

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Day Changes

My usual Saturday has had to shift to Sunday, if that makes sense. Packing vegetables for Transition Turrifield (that I used to do on a Thursday afternoon) is now weekly and on a Saturday morning. …

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The Constant Juggling

I know no one wants to hear this at the moment, but it was quite cold today in Shetland. I was forced to wear my coat when I fed everyone. And again later this afternoon, when I put the haynets out…

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The Look

Most of the day I have been on the receiving end of “The Look”. That’s the one – hard-done-by accompanied with resentment which then pairs nicely with holding the paw up and…

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Not Pepper’s Day

The dogs and I went for a walk to Clothie – our 5 acre field complete with a derelict croft house that used to be a school. The grass is so long it make the dogs invisible but they love it, b…

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Go Fivvie!

This morning Fivla had claimed all rights to the wee shed so I gave her bucket in there too. And Fivla was not letting anyone else in.  Nope. Not for no one. It was Her Shed. End of. I had already …

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Loners

In every herd or flock, there is always one. A loner. With the sheep, it is Lambie. Of course, it’s Lambie. How could it be anyone else? Possibly not the brightest star in our firmament and, …

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