2023 - My Shetland Blog

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The Struggle is Real

I shall just leave this here with you. It is titled “The Struggle is Real”…… ’nuff said, I think. (Floss took the video – Monster will be suing her for defamatio…

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Just brilliant!

 

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Poor Ster

Poor ‘Ster has pink-eye or snow-blindness or Infectious Keratoconjunctivitis. We have been treating ‘Ster for a couple of days now once I noticed his right eye was opaque but sadly it h…

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Another ill

 

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Ster’s Incarceration

Last night, when checking on ‘Ster, I decided that I hated the idea of him being blind and in a field, no matter how little, and that if he couldn’t see, then he could possibly hurt him…

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Not a happy patient

 

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Newt is a little…..

This is Newt. He is a little pony – 26″ to be precise. He is also a little….. 💩 (but this is his trying-to-look-cute face) It won’t wash with me, Newt. I know you &#…

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Small, but evil

 

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And then there were two

I have been umming and aahhing these past few days about ‘Bert. And I think my diagnosis is correct. He has pink-eye too. So in he went with ‘Ster and off I went to the vet to get some…

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Now poor Bert.

 

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Getting On Well

A beautiful sunrise today. While the horses ate their breakfast buckets, I took photos. Klængur Haakon, in thought. Kolka – we try to lure her over the wall to a separate eating area where s…

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Pretty lady

 

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Hi-Viz Jackets

As Teddy gets more and more confident on his daily dog-walk, he is also getting bolder and making some rash choices – such as running off after rabbits at 100mph. They both love a good rabbi…

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Visible

 

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Kolka’s Shed Now

We have some serious weather about to arrive but it is going to be warm while very windy, with a bit of rain and I can’t make my mind up what to do for the best. So I did nothing, but showed …

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Made it her own

 

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Morning Faces

I am currently writing this blog while a constant and tiring Force 10 rages outside – today has been tough and I have run out of waterproofs and patience. Anywho, this is the sunrise from yes…

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Sunrise and faces

 

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Scunnered

The little boys are totally scunnered (exhausted, weary, down-trodden) with the weather and, to be perfectly honest, I cannot blame them. It’s been relentless and there’s more to come. …

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Exhausted little ponies

 

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Keeping them happy

This morning’s feeding time at the zoo. I have moved the Oldies to the smaller but more sheltered field – it is in a small valley with a stream running through it. OH walked the dogs d…

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Finding shelter

 

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Ten Years

It’s been ten whole years. All day I have been going back in my head seeing what happened, what we did and why. I love the boys to bits but it’s not been easy. It never is. I made enem…

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I've learned so much

 

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I am Wrong!

I am wrong, and I don’t admit to that lightly. Apparently the original three Minions – Waffle, Silver and Storm – have only be with me for nine years. It will be ten next year acc…

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erratum

 

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One Horse Keeps Guard

“As members of a herd, they’re able to relax because one horse acts as a sentinel, standing guard while the rest snooze.” – Practical Horseman Or, if you’re Kolka, you…

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Kolka standing guard

 

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Some Portraits

A few posh portraits I took the other day when it wasn’t raining or a gale. I think Haakon is looking lovely for his age (29 this year). Just the same as ever. I know that face so well. We&#8…

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They look lovely

 

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Fivla or Silver

I drove down the track at Leradale this morning to see two grey (white) ponies standing next to each other and I asked myself the question “which is Fivla and which is Silver?” They loo…

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Identical

 

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Family Duck

From the initial 7 Muscovy ducks that I was given a couple of years back, we still have 6 – we lost two and kept 1 duckling, if that makes sense. I am very fond of my ducky-wuckies. They are…

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Ducky-wuckies

 

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An Unusual Walk

My job, at the moment, amongst many, is to walk the dogs and possibly the cat. So off we set, Monster, Pepper and Ted. Everyone wearing their hi-viz! Nothing to see here. Move along! Stealth cat. M…

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Dog, dog, cat

 

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A Tad Breezy

It was blowing a “moderate gale from west” this morning (thank you yr.no) but I am lucky to have OH to help me take the buckets out to Icelandics in Clothie (which is a bit of a walk ac…

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Windy here. Very windy.

 

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Hopefully Better

The weather is still fairly terrible (understatement of the year – it is ghastly), so having done all my crofting chores, I sat down in the sheep’s stable. ‘Ster and ‘Bert,…

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Sheep together