Well, I think we can all guess what I said to myself when OH shouted up the stairs this morning “There’s a really good sunrise happening now”. Well this shepherd is well and truly warned. Tomorrow’s feeding routine is going to be fun – Force 7 gusting 10. Ick. Anyway, the skies have been good […]
Everything Calm | My Shetland
Everything has calmed down now and we are all going about our day saying “Phew” to ourselves. The past few days have been quite the ordeal and I think the animals are very tired from the storm. To make up for it, we had a beautiful sunrise this morning. Very dramatic. Finnigert (where the Minions […]
Finding My Calm | My Shetland
We’ve had some suprisingly calm days recently. Most unusual for the time of year. Perfect photography weather – that’s a heron on the shoreline by the fence. It’s blimmin’ cold, though. A quick chat with ‘Bert, who was by himself and I have no idea why, and I took the dogs for a walk at […]
‘A calm and gentle individual’: Yampil the bear becomes first Ukrainian animal rehomed in UK | Ukraine
When staff from Five Sisters Zoo in West Lothian travelled to Belgium in September to visit a bear that they plan to rehome later this month, they were not sure what to expect. Less than a year earlier, Yampil had been only a few days from death when he was found by Ukrainian troops in […]
Lovely and Calm | My Shetland
The roof from our old lambing shed left us yesterday. Daisy said she heard some noise. The rest of us were oblivious. Anyway, it landed in the garden and OH quickly tidied it away for possibly burning later. It wasn’t a great roof, to be honest, and we all said we were amazed it had […]