J > Now that we don’t keep chickens on the croft, there’s a vacuum that’s being filled by wildlife. Thus are the hollows in the turf-and-rock ramparts of the old stack yard now healing with new grass ; except, that is, one hollow, which has been taken up by a female Lesser Black-Backed Gull.   Whilst her partner patrols overhead,  surfing the sea breazes, she has made her nest, laid three spotted-green eggs, and now has two spotted-grey-brown chicks, that are easily missed when they hunker down amongst the bare rocks of the ramparts.

D > The last potatoes (roasted) from those we grew last year.   2019’s crop of potatoes wasn’t the heaviest we’ve had, but they stored very well : not a single potato had to be thrown away. Just a short break until the first of the fresh-dug new potatoes!