2024 - My Shetland Blog
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Not Much to Say
I’ve not got much today. I am sorry. I spent my morning cleaning, tidying and sorting out beds and bedrooms for Daisy and Flossie (plus a visitor) who all come home for Christmas on Thursday…
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Getting everything ready for Christmas family and friend to arrive on Thursday. Vet came to take blood from the ponies. We talked about Storm.
The Trudge of My Sledge
After breakfast (none for me, I needed to get on), I drove off to Lerwick to finish all my Christmas shopping. It was a dreich day but no wind, for a change. It’s the little things. I had a …
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That's it. I've finished my Christmas shopping. I refuse to buy anything ever again!
A Bit of a Day
The weather is revolting and descending further into utter nastiness – F10 tonight and tomorrow. Not nice. The girls plus visitor have had to postpone their arrival. ETA Friday now. And I w…
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Icelandic horses have the best system for keeping dry and warm during the wettest weather.
Vegetables
After doing all the ponies, sheep, horses, etc I drove off to Turriefield for the last time this year. We were weighing, packing and labelling veg ready for Christmas. My job was carrots. I had …
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Packing veg all morning and then home to ponies in a container.
All Home Safely
Everyone is home for Christmas. I am now officially happy. And we have the Christmas decorations up. This was the first thing to do after lunch. We had waited for everyone to come home before do…
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Everyone has come home for Christmas. Let the festivities begin.
Not the Weather for Outside
Today has not been the weather for being outside. Not even slightly. When the sheep refused to go into their field, I completely understood and I gave them three haynets in their shed. Dahlia and…
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It is vile out there but Shetland ponies are very tough. I am less so.
The sheep stayed indoors. Their choice.
Little Things
Every Christmas I hand Daisy a jigsaw puzzle and off she goes. Monster has a keen interest and apparently vaguely rearranges it at night! Ted, (who “does not do men”) has a new best fri…
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Off to the ballet - another Christmas tradition this afternoon. Bliss not thinking about ponies and mud for a few hours.
Today’s Merry Little Jaunt
It was a beautiful sunrise and all was calm and quiet. Lovely. So, after long consulation with Daisy, we decided to put Tiddles and Waffle outside so they could stretch their legs, see their frien…
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Last trip around with the sleigh to give out the Christmas presents and then building fences.
Merrry Christmas
A very Merry Christmas With lots of love from everyone at Thordale xxx
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The Christmas card
A Few Christmas Photos
Here are a few photos off mine and Daisy’s phones from today. The traditional Yule Log. I can’t write much as I am tired and full of food. Anyway, I hope you all had a very Merry Chris…
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Happy Christmas.
We're all lying around feeling very full. It's been a lovely day too with friends and family.
A Nice Quiet Day
A lovely quiet day finishing food up (soup and more soup) and not thinking about much. I am now the proud owner of a new improved larger muck heap too – there will be photos tomorrow of this …
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Boxing Day is for resting, recovering and eating leftovers in a slightly different form.
To the Beach!
No visit is complete without a trip to the beach. Our favourite is Sandness beach. I lugged my big camera with me so I could take nice shots of the dogs, etc. Pepper met a pack of collies and was …
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We all went to the beach with the dogs for a lovely walk.
Shopping in Town
Today was a day in Lerwick showing our visitor the sights. We left for town straight after breakfast, stopping for any pretty photo opportunities. Lerwick was, as usual, empty. But it was nice to…
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It is nice to show our visitor the town and all the various touristy spots.
Feeling Thankful
While I was feeding the Ancients in their field, I looked at Haakon, my aged friend of nearly 30 years, and felt incredibly thankful he is still with me. You get one horse in life and he is mine. …
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You get One Horse in your life who is the best one ever. This is my One.
School Uniform
The weather is going to disintegrate tomorrow and snow and a fierce gale are forecast, plus windchill of -12 Celsius. Not fun. I don’t want to bring the Icelandics inside as they hate it (wh…
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I hate rugs on my horses but the weather is deteriorating fast and they want to be outside, so rugs it is. For the 3 ancient Icelandic horses who want to be outside.
Snaa!
Shetland dialect for snow is “snaa” and we have snaa. Lots of it. This morning, I felt sorry for Haakon who had waded through a freezing stream to get to his bucket but refused to walk…
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Today is beyond vile. I have gone against all I believe in. Old horses are inside.
Searching for errant sheep too.
Sunrise to Sunset
Sunrise this morning was at 09.10. Some of the snow had gone but it had been a very cold windy night. Everyone has spent the day dishing out food to those that want it. Or resting. And then the sun…
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We got almost 6 hours of daylight today.
Brassic
Last night was brassic but beautiful (brassic means very cold in the north). The Merrie Dancers were out too but it took some strength of purpose to want to go outside. I don’t think I have…
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An incredible display of northern lights last night, from the back door. We are surviving the snow and extreme cold temperatures.
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