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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Breaking dawn
Dawn on the croft. More photos later: first I have pigs to feed, chooks to feed, and boys to send to school.
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Goodbye to Doris
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 [...]
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Winter on the horizon
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.
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28 November, 2011


