This was the scene last November when a car skidded on black ice on a bend next to the croft, spun and hit the drystone dyke that extends between the house and the outbuildings. The dyke dates to the 1950s, but parts of it were almost certainly reclaimed from earlier walls and features as it [...]
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One day, there will be a wall…
19 December, 2008
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…but first we need to collect stones. Lots, and lots, and lots of stones. When we bought the croft five years ago, we found several piles of field stone scattered about the croft, many individual stones that had been rolled to one side, and a few isolated ones that were too big for previous owners [...]
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