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Harvey, our Border Terriers, scampers through sunlit saplings on the croft.

It’s February, isn’t it?

The media may be proclaiming a Siberian freeze—or an Antarctic freeze for that matter—but I spent most of the day working outside, sans jacket and woolly hat because conditions were so mild and sunny. In fact, it was was sufficiently warm for the soil to be worked as only the top inch or so was [...]

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Even the buildings have frozen

After several weeks of temperatures where the temperature has seldom climbed above -7C and has even hit -20C, the outbuildings are now so cold the stonework is sprouting ice crystals. And those walls are four feet thick. I did try to continue making a new door for the byre but had to give up when [...]

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It’s definitely cold out there

I don’t mind when the weather gets colder and the temperature dips below freezing. I don’t mind working outside when it drops to -10C, when I have have to wear gloves or get frost burn, and I have to break ice in the troughs every few hours. I don’t even mind when the temperature drops [...]

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