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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all of us at Stonehead Croft. (Christmas sketch by the Big Lad.)

Merry Christmas from the croft

24 December, 2012 by Stonehead 8 Comments

Blogging, Christmas, Crofting, New Year, postaweek2012, Smallholding

Death of a pig

3 November, 2012 by Stonehead 5 Comments

I came home from a rugby coaching course at 3pm today. I went out for a quick check of the animals, all the pigs and all the poultry looked okay, so I went inside. At 5.30pm, I went out to feed the pigs and found one of the finished gilts—due to go to slaughter in […]

Pigs

Christmas, Crofting, death, Livestock, Pigs, postaweek2012, Smallholding, vet, veterinary

A Christmas message

25 December, 2011 by Stonehead 15 Comments

Crofting, Farming & Smallholding

Blogging, Christmas, Crofting, festive season, postaweek2011, Smallholding

Postie brings a surprise

22 December, 2011 by Stonehead 2 Comments

I met the postie as I was coming back from photographing the Stonehead Circle this morning. He handed over a couple of parcels for the Other Half, plus half a dozen letters. I plonked them all down on the lid of the chest freezer and forgot about them until I was making my lunch. Among […]

Blogging

Blogging, Christmas

Making mincemeat

6 December, 2011 by Stonehead 3 Comments

We’re on a tighter budget for Christmas this year, thanks to the combination of a poor season for vegetables, reduced sales of pork and pigs and a second static year for the Other Half’s salary coinciding with much higher prices for just about everything. It means we can’t afford the same quality and quantity of […]

Preserves

Christmas, cooking, Mince pie, Mincemeat, postaweek2011, Recipes

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