As promised earlier, more images of this morning’s dawn on the croft. It was definitely one of the most spectacular dawns we’ve had in the past seven years or so although the sunrise proper was flat and grey. Capturing the moment before the sun rose behind Dunnideer and Bennachie was a little tricky as the [...]
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Archive | November, 2011
Breaking dawn
28 November, 2011
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Dawn on the croft. More photos later: first I have pigs to feed, chooks to feed, and boys to send to school.
Read more Goodbye to Doris
26 November, 2011
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I’ve just come in from shooting Doris, one of the foundation sows of our Berkshire herd. Doris was an easy sow, had a good life on the croft and paid her way. She was a cracking pig. She was a little thin after she weaned her last litter of piglets in August. She hadn’t regained [...]
Read more Winter on the horizon
25 November, 2011
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We’ve had an unseasonably warm autumn with the grass still growing, peas flowering, flies and bees flying and other oddities. Temperatures have seldom dipped below 8ºC, although we have had the usual gales and rain. Today, though, winter finally appeared on the horizon with snow settling on the Grampians.
Read more A bitsa of a day
21 November, 2011
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I was awake at 5.30am today after a restless night thanks to my brain throwing up far too many ideas for short stories, character sketches and writing assignments. I remained in bed for a while, enjoying a moment of leisure, before leaping out of bed just before 6am, racing off to the shower for a [...]
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