Mastodawn

It's been far too long since I shared a bit of #TroughCamTuesday and how could I not share some of this glorious sunshine and gorgeous ewes 😍
#BoreraySheep #SheepOfMastodon #Crofting

Wen Mar 30

Reworking your life - Tiree

https://www.thenational.scot/culture/25048803.spent-12-years-learning-labour-lambing-tiree/

http://archive.today/2025.03.30-155133/https://www.thenational.scot/culture/25048803.spent-12-years-learning-labour-lambing-tiree/ (archive)

A lot of really hard work but I admire and envy her. (Whoops, correction)

#CroftingLife #Crofting #Tiree #Scotland

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Assoc for Scottish Literature Mar 16

Alasdair Maclean’s NIGHT FALLS ON ARDNAMURCHAN (1984) was his only full-length prose work. Hilary Mantel called it

“…a book like an animated shipping forecast… You hear the ocean and the voice of a salt-laden gale in this sharp, thoughtful, eloquent memoir, which is specific yet not parochial, romantic, reflective, and yet grittily acquainted with the realities of life on the margin.”

@bookstodon

https://birlinn.co.uk/product/night-falls-on-ardnamurchan-2/

#Scottish #literature #memoir #crofting #20thcentury #Ardnamurchan

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kashcah Mar 16

We have a mystery to solve. One of our ducks has been laying in a secret nest somewhere so we bought a fake, ceramic egg and placed it in a nest to encourage her to lay there. It was a nest made by our goose so a bit oversized for a duck but it was right next to an abandoned duck nest so 🤷 Now the ceramic egg has gone missing...
#RunnerDucks #Smallholding #Crofting

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kashcah Mar 4

Hens have finally arrived on the croft! We picked up four ex-commercial hens from British Hen Welfare Trust on the 2nd March, 2025. Of course the weather has been less than welcoming and I can imagine these ladies wondering where the hell they have come to with nosey ducks, noisy geese and wind blowing a hoolie!
We've also got some Light Sussex chicken eggs in the incubator. They should be hatching in 2-3 weeks.
#crofting #Hens #HensOfMastodon