This is the scene that’s been greeting us most mornings over the past fortnight. Every day we clear paths through the snow to the roads, to the byre, to the wood store, to the chicken houses and runs, and to the pig enclosures. Every day, we carry out bucket after bucket of fresh water, buckets [...]
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Archive | December, 2009
Final sunrise of 2009
31 December, 2009
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When the sun rose to start the final day of 2009 it shone over hedges and fields shrouded in the last, genuinely heavy, snowfall of the year as well. It was an appropriate way to tend the year on the croft—cold and hard but still bright.
Read moreWee bampots playin’ in the sna
28 December, 2009
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Dark, cold and snowing? Nae bother, Pa. We’ll just have a go on the swing. Yes, the Other Half and I have done a terrible job of bringing the boys up. They certainly haven’t received the message that modern children are supposed to be tucked up inside, playing computer games and avoiding all outdoor activity [...]
Read moreCrane engineer
25 December, 2009
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The Big Lad may have had a very early start to Christmas Day, but that wasn’t going to stop him from stay up late to finish building this crane from Meccano. He spent hours putting it together, deciphering poorly edited and partially incomplete instructions, and interpreting the design to make the crane work better. The [...]
Read moreIt wouldn’t be Christmas…
25 December, 2009
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…on the croft without an unexpected bout of very hard work. Yesterday, the air temperature went from -6.9C at noon to 0.9C at midnight. Snow melted on any warm surface, then the resulting water trickled under the remaining snow and froze because the ground temperature had remained at -4C. When I went to feed the [...]
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