2022 - My Shetland Blog

[Frances144]

Plotting and Scheming

OH announced that he wanted to touch-up his car ready for selling. So he brought it into the indoor school to spray….. (the only dry place). And instantly I could hear the plotting and schemi…

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You can hear the cogs turn

 

[Frances144]

Chippie-Chipmunks

Three little Shetland ponies have been busy. Oh, yes. I found this terrible example of their nibblings when I opened up in this morning. I was not happy. So OH and I put up some sheep hurdles in f…

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And now it's war!

 

[Frances144]

Lick Wars

The Old Men came up this morning to see if there was anything better going than their field of lovely uneaten grass. How they suffer. Iacs and Haakon hung around looking hopeful so I caved and wen…

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Bicker and argue

 

[Frances144]

And we’re back!

We had a 6 day power cut but the electricity is finally back on and I will write more this evening. We managed, everyone is fine and we’re all still here, safe and well.

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Sorry for silence. Circumstances beyond my control.

 

[Frances144]

It’s Been Tough

Monday was vile. Everyone was up around the house either in stables, sheds or wandering about poo’ing everywhere (my thanks to Iacs, Haakon and Klængur who took this job very seriously). And …

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The last six days

 

[carthorse]

I'm glad you're all safe and well. The skies in your photos are amazingly dramatic, I love them.

 

[Frances144]

Waffle Home

Today we managed to get the horsevan out of its snowdrift (I had parked it up on the road a few days previously) and drove it over to Leradale. I wanted to bring Waffle home. If I have a thing, it …

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I was worried. He came back

 

[Frances144]

Next, the Thaw

We came out first thing this morning to find lots of meltwater lying around. The temperature had been slowly going up all night. Our burn was very high too – it all comes off Stourbrough HIl…

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water, water everywhere

 

[Frances144]

Glorious Morning

A glorious morning (weather-wise) makes up for last week’s debacle. It really does. However, it does not make up for Newt’s Napoleon complex which is defined as “a domineering or…

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The sun shone, the sky was blue

 

[Frances144]

Winter Solstice

Today is the Winter Solstice. The shortest day or the longest night, depending on your perspective. Sunrise – 09.10 Sunset – 14:58 So precisely 5.48 hours of daylight (I did the math(…

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Shortest day

 

[Frances144]

Super Model Problems

From Wikipedia: A supermodel is a highly paid fashion model who usually has a worldwide reputation and often a background in haute couture and commercial modeling. Today, our supermodel, aka Monste…

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Not helpful

 

[Frances144]

Decorating The House

Both girls are home now having successfully avoided the Christmas strikes so we decorated the house ready for Christmas Day. And, again, due to forces beyond our control….. *** cough *** the …

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a lovely time of year

 

[Frances144]

Maggie on the Rampage and one unhelpful Lambie

Maggie vanished this morning. Everyone else arrived for their breakfast except for her. She was busy far away in the field talking to the hill ram over the fence. Well, I hope it was only talkin…

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Never work with .....

 

[Frances144]

Merry Christmas from us all

We’ve all had a lovely day. All of us, including Monster, Pepper and Ted. Monster particularly loved his catnip fish tacos. Pepper wanted to have everything. And Ted took all the squeakers ou…

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A lovely day

 

[Frances144]

Force 11 Out

It’s rough outside today. As an avid weather watcher, I knew the latest storm was on its way so Daisy and I went out early, before it fully revved up to feed the old ladies, Fivla and Vitamin…

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not nice out

 

[Frances144]

Lovely and Calm

The roof from our old lambing shed left us yesterday. Daisy said she heard some noise. The rest of us were oblivious. Anyway, it landed in the garden and OH quickly tidied it away for possibly bu…

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All calmed down now.

 

[Frances144]

Waffle

A few photos of Waffle for you. Mostly a sweetie. Enigmatic. Sometimes think he’s a stallion, so can be a bit of a berk. Easy to work with but has his moments. Always handsome. Huggable. Lova…

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Is it really ten years?

 

[Frances144]

Out with Monster

First thing this morning, Monster surprised us all with his presence. While we were busy feeding hens, ducks, ponies, horses and sheep, he was busy yowling about the mud and getting his legs dirty…

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He came too

 

[Frances144]

Grotty Dog Walk

The weather has been driech today. Totally meh and I was the one taking the dogs for their daily walk so they accompanied me to Leradale when I went over to feed the ponies. There was barely any li…

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Boring walk

 

[Frances144]

Snow Again (but not much)

I woke first thing to see this waiting for me. Snow. Ok, a smattering, but still snow and it was icey underfoot. As a treat, I gave everyone a carrot. The little ones had a small one each. They …

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More snow - a smattering