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Today has been a good day. I'm way beyond even my stretch goals for the day. All my parks are now secure from one another and from commons, all my gates open and close easily, all but one of them with working latches.
And I have an unexpected new arrival.
I'm tired, but I'm pleased.
New calf isn't tagged, and I'm not going to do that tonight even though it will be much harder to catch her tomorrow; but sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
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Today has been a good day. I'm way beyond even my stretch goals for the day. All my parks are now secure from one another and from commons, all my gates open and close easily, all but one of them with working latches.
And I have an unexpected new arrival.
I'm tired, but I'm pleased.
New calf isn't tagged, and I'm not going to do that tonight even though it will be much harder to catch her tomorrow; but sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
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Well, this is unexpected! Gorgon has produced the first calf of the year. She's healthy, and Gorgon is a good, experienced mother, so I'm not at all anxious about it, but I wasn't expecting calves until May.
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Well, this is unexpected! Gorgon has produced the first calf of the year. She's healthy, and Gorgon is a good, experienced mother, so I'm not at all anxious about it, but I wasn't expecting calves until May.
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Three gates on hinges and stock proof. One wooden gate loaded up to be relocated. This feels like a useful afternoon's work.
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Three gates on hinges and stock proof. One wooden gate loaded up to be relocated. This feels like a useful afternoon's work.
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Well, that's another gate hung. It has to be said Icarus isn't impressed. #Crofting #TheJoyOfCrofting
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Well, that's another gate hung. It has to be said Icarus isn't impressed. #Crofting #TheJoyOfCrofting
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Bringing new gates and fence posts over the hill. Nothing in the least dodgy about this load, no sirree. Hopefully this means I can get all my parks stock proof and the bulls separated from the cows (and ideally sold) before the cows calve.
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Bringing new gates and fence posts over the hill. Nothing in the least dodgy about this load, no sirree. Hopefully this means I can get all my parks stock proof and the bulls separated from the cows (and ideally sold) before the cows calve.
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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”
4/4
https://birlinn.co.uk/product/night-falls-on-ardnamurchan-2/
#Scottish #literature #memoir #20thcentury #Argyll #crofting
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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”
4/4
https://birlinn.co.uk/product/night-falls-on-ardnamurchan-2/
#Scottish #literature #memoir #20thcentury #Argyll #crofting
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In March we start our harvesting.
We dig ourselves down out of sight
in a peat bog,
continuing perhaps all summer
when the weather lets us,
till the job is done…—Alasdair Maclean, “At the Peats”
Published in FROM THE WILDERNESS (Gollancz, 1973)3/4
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Argyll #crofting
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In March we start our harvesting.
We dig ourselves down out of sight
in a peat bog,
continuing perhaps all summer
when the weather lets us,
till the job is done…—Alasdair Maclean, “At the Peats”
Published in FROM THE WILDERNESS (Gollancz, 1973)3/4
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Argyll #crofting
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Well, this afternoon I have found and fixed the earth leak problem on my electric fences; and in the process, of course, I've given myself a full 9.8KV shock. It doesn't injure, but jings! It hurts!
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Well, this afternoon I have found and fixed the earth leak problem on my electric fences; and in the process, of course, I've given myself a full 9.8KV shock. It doesn't injure, but jings! It hurts!
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Right! After, frankly, way too much work, I once again have a garden gate which opens properly and easily both ways, and which closes and latches properly and easily. I don't love the galvanised steel gatepost, but it should not need to be replaced again in my lifetime.
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Right! After, frankly, way too much work, I once again have a garden gate which opens properly and easily both ways, and which closes and latches properly and easily. I don't love the galvanised steel gatepost, but it should not need to be replaced again in my lifetime.
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Today's cattle trough ice was about 60mm thick. It was really heavy to lift!
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Today's cattle trough ice was about 60mm thick. It was really heavy to lift!
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First properly hard frost of the winter, so that's taking the ice off the cattle troughs added to the daily jobs.
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First properly hard frost of the winter, so that's taking the ice off the cattle troughs added to the daily jobs.
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“We need properly thought through crofting policy”
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Today was hardly the ideal day to be grodgelling in the dirt like one of Jinian Footseer's gobblemoles, but then today was not the ideal day for the cattle to demolish the garden gatepost. Fortunately, I did have a replacement steel gatepost ready to go in.
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Today was hardly the ideal day to be grodgelling in the dirt like one of Jinian Footseer's gobblemoles, but then today was not the ideal day for the cattle to demolish the garden gatepost. Fortunately, I did have a replacement steel gatepost ready to go in.
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Crofter and Cottar returns and the Napier Commission
via National Records of Scotland
"The Commission was set up in response to unrest in crofting communities in the Highlands and Islands.The written records include:
* names of estate owners, crofters & cottars
* land rented to each crofter
* rent paid
* other sources of income, and moreLearn more about these records in our article: https://bit.ly/NapierArticle
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#Scotland #History #Crofting #NapierCommission -
Crofter and Cottar returns and the Napier Commission
via National Records of Scotland
"The Commission was set up in response to unrest in crofting communities in the Highlands and Islands.The written records include:
* names of estate owners, crofters & cottars
* land rented to each crofter
* rent paid
* other sources of income, and moreLearn more about these records in our article: https://bit.ly/NapierArticle
"
#Scotland #History #Crofting #NapierCommission -
Sawmilling in the rain.
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Sawmilling in the rain.
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New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2025/06/08/50th-birthday-holiday-12-sanna/
Continuing my series about my 50th birthday holiday in the far west of #Scotland with a post about our visit to #Sanna: https://aspi.blog/2025/06/08/50th-birthday-holiday-12-sanna/
#50thBirthdayHoliday #Scotland #ArdnamurchanPeninsula #Sanna #Geology #Crofting #SSSI #photography #birds -
New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2025/06/08/50th-birthday-holiday-12-sanna/
Continuing my series about my 50th birthday holiday in the far west of #Scotland with a post about our visit to #Sanna: https://aspi.blog/2025/06/08/50th-birthday-holiday-12-sanna/
#50thBirthdayHoliday #Scotland #ArdnamurchanPeninsula #Sanna #Geology #Crofting #SSSI #photography #birds -
In the summer of 1976 I went north to the Isle of Lewis. I saw some superb photos in a pharmacy window that were not for sale. I told my mother-in-law, who I was staying with, about them. She proceeded to 'persuade' the pharmacist, the photographer A.M. MacDonald ARPS, to part with them. They are the most precious things I brought home, though I still feel sorry for MacDonald. They are now with Am Baile, the repository for the crofting counties of Scotland.
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In the summer of 1976 I went north to the Isle of Lewis. I saw some superb photos in a pharmacy window that were not for sale. I told my mother-in-law, who I was staying with, about them. She proceeded to 'persuade' the pharmacist, the photographer A.M. MacDonald ARPS, to part with them. They are the most precious things I brought home, though I still feel sorry for MacDonald. They are now with Am Baile, the repository for the crofting counties of Scotland.
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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.”
https://birlinn.co.uk/product/night-falls-on-ardnamurchan-2/
#Scottish #literature #memoir #crofting #20thcentury #Ardnamurchan
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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.”
https://birlinn.co.uk/product/night-falls-on-ardnamurchan-2/
#Scottish #literature #memoir #crofting #20thcentury #Ardnamurchan
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Not a bad morning. Six new house pillars cut, and the hungry hoard fed.
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Feeding the cattle for the second time this winter. These bales are FAR too heavy for me to manage on my own. Loading them up on the far side of the hill isn't too bad, because there are plenty of folk there and I can usually get help. But unloading them this side has to be done alone – with help from The Little Tractor That Can.
The procedure took a bit of thought.
Pictures in reverse order, sorry!