Category Archives: Big Garden and Croft
Downsizing – Sheep
It’s 2-3 months since we agreed a way forward, but difficult to convert decisions into actions.
Continue reading →The Season Starts – 2019
Today, after preparing over the course of the past week, we put up the signs and opened the doors : The Hebridean Woolshed’s garden shop, here in the walled garden, is now open for the 2019 season!
Continue reading →Life Expired
From what I could see today, it looks to me as if the exoskeleton to Greenhouse 4 is life expired ; but it’s enough right now to remove all the boards – and let in the light!
Continue reading →Mrs Jackson’s Nest
Mrs Jackson’s nest is in a hollow scratched out – by the Welsumer hens – of an ancient bank of stone and earth
Continue reading →By Hail and High Water
Storm Gareth continued to batter Uist last night : I was woken at about 2:30am by a banging/knocking noise that recurred each time a violent gust hit the house
Continue reading →Every Last Crumb!
Downsizing – Poultry
With a view to eventual retirement from crofting, we are downsizing some of our activities and so have livestock and equipment for sale
Continue reading →Where The Storms Have No Name
Recovery
A violent gust of wind knocked me sideways and blasted into the front panel of the trailer, wrenching it from my grip – and hurling it down the ramp and onto the beach
Continue reading →Collatoral Damage
How sad – and no less so even if this was just a tragedy of chance, collatoral damage – unlikely to be repeated.
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