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Breeze and Blizzard are home
CorrieDhu brought Breeze and Blizzard home tonight, which was good of her. Both loaded like a dream - well, Breeze did. Blizzard was a little more difficult.. Hopefully, both…
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A lost and found day
Since it was a lovely day here (until 7pm when it started to rain heavily), I planned to get a few jobs done outside. First was mucking out the field shelter. Now, I've…
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Good neighbours
On Friday, our neighbours, Rebecca and Tony, and two of their boys came along to ask if they could help us. Jeez, well, we have list as long as your arm but we weren't sure if this…
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A Little Piece of England: A Tale of Self Sufficiency
Rearing sheep A Little Piece of England was first published under the title A Bucket of Nuts and a Herring Net. The nuts were pony nuts and the herring net was what we…
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Strimming
Mark, Mo and the boys were at Dalmore this weekend. While John, Linda, Mark, Mo and Lewis went cycling, Ben, who's 15, elected to stay with us and strim. He enjoyed it so much (!)…
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The Bothy 13
The plumber's finished so there is now water and flushing toilets. We had dinner in the Bothy on Saturday and Sunday night because Dan was stripping and sealing our…
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Dismal day
but at least no earthquakes. The fencing has been abandoned in favour of wood cutting, as John's got a stinking cold. Dan and his chainsaw - man and machine in perfect…
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Vegetable garden raised beds
Dan and John built the first of five raised beds in the vegetable garden today. In the rain. It took them an hour and a half; the rest will take less time now that they have a…
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Clean greenhouse
It's been miserable here today - dreich, in fact. However, John did finish cleaning out the greenhouse with the powerwasher. Unfortunately, it drained to the back corner, so…
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Back to work for Bugsy
Bugsy's had a few days off because the wood part of his klibber broke. One of the haybags caught on the gate and, although he was very good and stood still, the wood…
