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My Shetland
Primary focus: Animals
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 have no idea why but I haven’t). So, apologies for the photo drop but I []
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 – Mañana. Later arrived and, after I had made my statutory hand-felted sheep, I was in desparate need for some fresh []
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. My Saturday afternoons used to be set aside for flute duets but I never knew when I would get home []
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 for the little ones. My latest worry is that the Shetland ponies are secretly []
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 going along on three legs. I missed Pepper’s little busybodyness while I gave everyone their breakfasts. It felt a bit lonely on my []
It’s been a bit of a day of days to be perfectly honest. I knew what was in store for Pepper and, once I had fed everyone and got them into their correct fields, we went to the vet. Pepper was a good girl. She weighed – 7.7kg (so she’s put on a bit, which []
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, bouncing over everything so they can see where they’re going or aiming for. And []
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 let most of the sheep out into the field but Lambie, ‘Ster and ‘Bert []
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, yes, he stood there in his little dining room/pen for a good hour while the gate was open telling []
You left us yesterday with no power but thankfully it came back on in time for OH to watch the World Cup Quarter-Finals. I went to bed as I was exhausted and didn’t really care. I woke up to the sun shining and it been lovely and warm, if breezy – a good drying day. []
