Life’s a blur!
Jonathan and Denise >
So many things to do, not enough time. Life’s a blur!
Grounds maintenance. Eight Askernish 2017
Queenie’s fleece being sheared
Ewes, ewe hogs and this year’s lambs in Bothy Field.
Lambs at the top of High Field
Pulling Rhubarb.
M10 stainless steel bolt resined into rock as tensioning anchor. One of many!
Denise and Tilly’s lunchtime walk.
Sweet Gooseberry Jelly – and Esieabhal. On the garden wall.
Cheviot lamb orphaned when mother killed by Eagle. Beinn Sgiathan, Isle of Eriskay
Beinn Sgiathan Hebridean/Cheviot blend, 50g
Shalotts pickled for our winter stores.
Sorrel and Buttercup on our croft in Eriskay
Life’s a blur!
Evening walk, Boisdale machair and beach. Jonathan and Tilly
Sea Rocket on the beach.
Fresh-made wasabi.
Buying clothes for our grandson-to-be.
Cardoon
J Towing 25kg tub of ‘lick’ up the hill to High Field.
Keeping the Buff Orpingtons supplied with green weeds.
It’s not all about food! Pelargoniums at the front door.
First clearance harvest of 2017 – Shalotts. Some for pickling, some for salads, some for cooking.
View from Beinn Sgiathan across Rudha Ban, Isle of Eriskay
Weeds: a plant in the wrong place? Aqualegia amongst the potatos.
New Zealand flax flowers.
Just made: Sweet Gooseberry Jelly and Lemon Curd.
Evening walk, Boisdale machair and beach.
Making Sweet Gooseberry Jelly.
Evening walk, Boisdale machair and beach. Denise and Tilly.
Evening walk, Boisdale machair and beach.
Oops! nicked the pipe supplying a garden tap.
An Garradh Mor Hebridean sheep, on Beinn Sgiathan, looking over to Eiseabhal South Uist.
D’s latest reading, picked up at the Thrift Shop.
English
Basque
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
Dutch
Finnish
French
German
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Portuguese
Scottish Gaelic
Spanish
Welsh
Well I am exhausted just reading! Breath taking actually!
What a beautiful set of photos– so varied and so reflective of a really good life!
J & D > We had to exercise restraint – so many still-unused photos to choose from. These cover just the last eight-nine weeks only.
I say throw restraint to the winds and show *all* the photos! 😉
Appreciated the way you made your point with your photographs. Excellent.
I like your garden fencing. That’s just what I need!
Wonderful pics – you must be exhausted! But what a beautiful life you lead
J & D > Glad you enjoyed the photos. We’re certainly kept busy, but then so are people with full time jobs!
A busy, beautiful life. I was especially interested in “The Miniaturist” by Jessie Burton. Will look it up for further information.
D > I’m reading it now, after reading her other book, The Muse. Both brilliant! What delighted J and I was that having just finished reading The Muse, I said to myself, I must look out for a copy of The Miniaturist at a charity shop. (There are two ‘Thrift Shops’ in our group of islands, both very small, as entire population is only about 3000). Next day we were over in Beinn na Faoghla (Benbecula) for a hospital appointment, called in at the Thrift Shop there, and lo and behold the lady behind the counter showed me some books just come in – and there it was. That made our day!
Yay! What a treat to find the book you were looking for. Doesn’t always happen that way.
Life at the pace you live certainly is a blur. 🙂 Wish I lived closer so I could buy some of your lemon curd. 🙂
love these photos 🙂