2022 - My Shetland Blog

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From My Phone

Pepper: Am I your best friend? Daisy: Of course! Pepper: Can I have your breakfast? Daisy: No! They are just two guys enjoying the breakfast haynet. Me: Smile for the camera, ‘Ster. ‘St…

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(forgot the year changed!)

 

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A Tad Blowy

As I type, it is gusting at an ambient Force 10 now. Earlier the weather was slightly better so I took these photos while I was with the Minions this morning and am now struggling with our pathetic…

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Windy ponies

 

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Inside

Last night I lay in bed and listened, for what felt like all night, to the wind and rain howling and crashing down outside. All I could think was that the horses would be suffering horribly as it …

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Over-reacting as ever!

 

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You Had One Job, Lambie

Edna was shouting for the hill ram by our boundary fence. The hill sheep come and go past our croft and we have an electric fence at just the right height to stop any spring lambs potentially appe…

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There is always one and that would be you-know-who!

 

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One Man and His Bucket

Floss and I were out at the first glimpse of daylight this morning with everyone’s haynets and/or buckets. I stood guard beside Haakon because his bucket (TurmerAid and soaked sugarbeet) is b…

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First thing

 

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Puppy Told Off

This is the face of one who has been told off! The usual puppy stuff….. no recall, random peeing (just when we thought we had it sussed), ragging the cat, ragging Ted, never stopping ragging …

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Sulky puppy

 

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A Few Minion Portraits

A blowy day again but dry so I took my big camera out with me to see the Minions. Waffle Silver not looking like Silver at all Albie or Albert-Potatoes (no idea why but he is) The magnificent Vitam…

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Very beautiful

 

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Les Autres Petits Garçons

If you were missing the others from yesterday, well here they are. I didn’t include them because they don’t suit the black and white filters very well. Tiddles So glorious. He was lurk…

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They never stop either

 

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Weather Complaints

The weather has disintegrated again. We are now in the middle of a five day gale. No one is particularly thrilled (I took this photo just before it all started). Dad and son. I haven’t put on…

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the start of a five day gale

 

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I really don't know how you cope there in the winter, I think I'd pack up and head back to the mainland!

 

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Shocked!

Little Miss Pepper rules her world. She is very much a Daddy’s girl and OH is obviously completely smitten, forgives her everything (including going through the compost heap and bringing 3 b…

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I am shocked

 

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Newt’s Bedroom

I went over to see the Minions. I found them all sheltering from Day 3 of this miserable gale. To be fair, though, it is unseasonally warm and there has been less rain than I thought. I did my us…

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Duvet day?

 

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Runaways!

When you’re sitting down with knife and fork poised just about to eat your well-deserved lunch and the phone goes….. “Please can you come and help. My horses have escaped.” …

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A taste of freedom

 

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A Nice Welcome Home

To town today in the van that doesn’t like starting very much at the moment. I had to buy more hay. We are at that time of year when we get through a lot. It was all a bit of a wing-and-a-p…

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Little liars

 

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Please Don’t Get Up

Back from the Minions this morning and I found everyone having a little zizz in the morning sunshine. Having been vile last week – an unrelenting four day gale which exhausted everyone &#821…

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Perfect Gentlemen

 

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A Bit Breezy Here

The daily Minion trip is no chore. Their winter field is just 5 minutes away and I know they are looked at regularly by my very helpful neighbours too. In all weathers, Leradale is truly a beautifu…

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windy here

 

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My Little Lamb

I found Harrel-the-Barrel happily munching everyone’s haynet. He often does this – stays in the shed while everyone else goes somewhere else. And then when Maggie heard my voice (I was …

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Sheep in my shed

 

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I Must Keep This

Every day, I see my huge piles of bagged wool in the stables and I think to myself “I must wash some and use it for my sheeple” and then I promptly forget and do nothing. So today, with…

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Washing wool

 

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Name that Precipitation

So this afternoon found Floss and I sitting in the car waiting for our farrier playing that well known game of “Name that Precipitation”. The weather ranged from rain to sleet to snow …

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Farrier

 

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Meh!

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Family photos are never easy