It’s been a day of faces (oh, Haakon!) Or a sneaky side-eye (thank you, Vitamoobag). Apparently, no one wanted to look pretty today. Just silly so I gave up trying. With the exception, of co…

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15.10.2025

A Lovely Day | My Shetland

FIrst thing and I was out with my usual buckets to my usual ungrateful lot of animals. I title this photo “Good luck with that!” Breakfast for me and then off I went for a day out. Firs…

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14.10.2025

Invisible AI Master | My Shetland

Ever since I had the meeting with the internet social media chap, I seem to have lost my art of writing the blog. I feel like invisible expectations have been placed upon me and that my every word…

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13.10.2025

Winter or Summer Track? | My Shetland

A wet dreich day and I have galloping TMJ pain so I am feeling very sorry for myself. After trying to play flute duets badly, I gave up (my jaw and neck hurt too much) and dragged Mandy out to help…

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12.10.2025

Physiotherapy | My Shetland

I chucked the old horses and ponies back out into their old field. They were not impressed. But, as I told them, you don’t need all that grass for the foreseeable. I am saving it for the wi…

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11.10.2025

Not a Day for Going Outside | My Shetland

Today was not a day for being outside. It was “coarse” – sporadic rain/drizzle accompanied by an unceasing westerly wind – F8/F9. When I went out first thing, I could see Ia…

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10.10.2025

Happy Days | My Shetland

My blog fight continues. My Chief Administrator, the ever-helpful-nothing-is-too-much Nick Miners has successfully turned the clock back and I am back to my happy Luddite state of the Classic Word…

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09.10.2025

Sleep Well, Edna | My Shetland

Goodnight Edna. It was the right decision. I know that. The vet came and she agreed there were no miracle cures and it was time. Edna went to sleep in my arms and she will rest in pain-free peace. …

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09.10.2025

Aprés Storm Amy | My Shetland

As I type, we are just coming out of Storm Amy, which was quite a doozy, even by Shetland standards. Everyone survived fine and there was only one casualty – a small window in an old shed blew out …

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09.10.2025

Shetland Wool Week 2025 Makers’ Market | My Shetland

The weather has been gross – a driving wind gusting F11 last night (F12 tonight – which is, I think around 73mph plus) with sporadic but violent horizontal rain. Horrid for everyone. Surprisi…

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09.10.2025

A day off from being me | My Shetland

Today I wanted a break from everyone and everything. No more animals and work. Just one day off from all this. So I fed all the animals, and made sure they had everything they wanted while OH gave …

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09.10.2025

My Nothing Day | My Shetland

My best kind of day – absolutely nothing happened. Having had such a lovely day off yesterday, I slipped back into my daily routine feeling rested and calm. Breakfast was non-eventful. Everyone ate…

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09.10.2025

Never Again! | My Shetland

Sorry for the 24hr absence. I pressed a button when I was trying to update the blog. However, I have learned my lesson. I will never do that again, I promise. Go back 36 hours (yesterday morning)…

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02.10.2025

Life is a…… | My Shetland

Some days I think life is like a tipped up food bucket. Well, Fivla certainly agrees. The wind had caught her bucket when she lifted her head out – a rookie mistake. Iacs will tell you that …

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01.10.2025

A Wool Week Visitor | My Shetland

I wrote out the whole blog and then the broadband went down and lost it all. **sigh **. So here I go again……. It was about how we had a visitor who was up in Shetland for Wool Week, and…

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30.09.2025

Around and About | My Shetland

“Breakfast!”, I shouted and the Icelandic horses all came thundering over the hill. Well, Kolka had a good thunder while the old men, Haakon and Iacs, walked slightly faster than usual.…

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29.09.2025

Hell Finally Froze Over | My Shetland

A good friend from Wool Week came over to see everyone. I had a lovely time re-introducing her to all the horses and ponies. And then, after a strenuous climb up the hill in their enormous field, …

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28.09.2025

Not My Day | My Shetland

It’s not been my day today. I took a pile of photos to show how ‘Ster has worked out how to get into the field, when everyone else has gone under the fence and left him. But my camera a…

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27.09.2025

The Shock of My Life | My Shetland

I got the shock of my life today. I know one day it will happen and I must be prepared. I mean I have five horses and ponies over the age of 30, I have to be a realist. But this was a step too far…

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26.09.2025

Saying No! | My Shetland

All I did was say “No” today to just about everyone. This was Iacs’ attempt at going to steal Fivla’s breakfast bucket. I was holding onto his chin hairs, trying to do my d…

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25.09.2025

Friends Fast Asleep | My Shetland

Our internet is playing silly-buggers. It is very slow so I am not going to write anything much because I am going mad here. Anyway, this morning on my dog-walk I found all the Shetland ponies in a…

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24.09.2025

A Little Bit of Activity | My Shetland

I went outside last night just to see if anything was going on as I had heard there might be some aurora activity. There was a bit but also a massive non-moving cloud was in the way. Dammit. Push o…

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23.09.2025

My Busy Day | My Shetland

As you may be aware, these are my last few days to get sheep to the Lerwick shop in time for Shetland Wool Week 2025. I am busting a gut here. Today I made these three. I really like the spotty La…

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22.09.2025

Life in General | My Shetland

Round Two of a little known game “Who Gets the Bucket First”. Fivla put on a sudden and unexpected burst of speed and claimed her breakfast. No one, and I mean no one, gets in the way …

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21.09.2025

Sheds | My Shetland

The weather was fairly rough this morning – F8, north-westerly (bitter) with occasional rain/drizzle – but everyone still got fed. It is non-optional, apparently. When I saw Gussie try…

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20.09.2025

The Final Rush | My Shetland

This is the final rush before Wool Week starts at the end of this month – the 28th, I have just found out. So every spare minute I have is spent in my shed (‘scuse the mess) making shee…

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19.09.2025

Interesting Day | My Shetland

An interesting day that started with the weather piling in bigly time. Wind and horizontal rain. All the sheep refused to go into any field and the dogs never had their walk as I couldn’t ge…

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18.09.2025

Autumn Sunshine | My Shetland

While we were packing veg this morning, someone asked how I write the blog. I replied that I take photos during my day of things that look appealing, upload them to my computer, take the ones I lik…

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17.09.2025

To Scalloway/Lerwick | My Shetland

This morning, on my way home after taking OH to catch the bus to town, I met a small ginger dog wandering along the road. OMG, it’s Pepper! Feeling somewhat surprised as I knew that before I…

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16.09.2025

All Grown Up | My Shetland

Once I’ve finished making sheep for the afternoon, the ducks/hens have their afternoon meal – hopefully the last one before bed. After all that stabbing, I give myself the luxury of sit…

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15.09.2025

The Dogs | My Shetland

After a rather good Sunday lunch (we had friends over so I made curry out of anything that stopped moving), we walked over to Clothie with our dogs to give them a run – them, not us! I also g…

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14.09.2025

Not Feeling Very Well | My Shetland

A certain “person” has spent the day not feeling very well. Pepper didn’t eat her breakfast, didn’t want to go on her dog-walk and has spent the afternoon alternating betwe…

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13.09.2025

Autumn Flush Begins | My Shetland

This is the face of someone who went a-visiting yesterday afternoon while I was away packing vegetables….. And she’s not sorry she did it but sorry she was caught and brought home, thou…

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12.09.2025

A Difficult Morning | My Shetland

This morning’s weather can only be described as vile. Haakon’ and Iacs’s breakfast buckets blew away and I had to scrape up Iacs’ complete with what pills I could find and …

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11.09.2025

Sheep and Shetland ponies | My Shetland

Now there’s a sight I thought I wouldn’t see. Sheep and Shetland ponies together, albeit Fivla, on their way out of the paddock. The chaps and chapesses seem to have overcome their mo…

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10.09.2025

Annoying Visitor | My Shetland

These days I am spending a lot of time in my shed – typing out manuscripts in the morning, stabbing away at my felted sheep in the afternoon and evening. And then there are the occasional vis…

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09.09.2025

Your name’s not down, you’re not coming in! | My Shetland

After breakfast (in very dull weather), I couldn’t see the Shetland ponies. I asked OH, as he was coming up the hill after poo-picking the track, if he’d seen them and he replied &#822…

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08.09.2025

A Windy Day | My Shetland

It’s been very windy here all day. OH and I struggled round with buckets of food and poo-picking buckets thinking when it is like this, everything takes twice as long and nothing is easy. I s…

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07.09.2025

Autumnal Thoughts | My Shetland

This is the sight that greeted me first thing this morning. Everyone was having a wee snooze in the early morning sunshine (8 a.m.) and Newt was apparently the chosen armoured guard, which was pro…

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06.09.2025

My To-Do Winter List | My Shetland

As you may remember that as I had visitors (daughter – Floss and her boyfriend), I made a long list of things-to-be-done-before-winter-arrives. This included cleaning and sorting out the stab…

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Faces | My Shetland

A Lovely Day | My Shetland

Invisible AI Master | My Shetland

Winter or Summer Track? | My Shetland

Physiotherapy | My Shetland

Not a Day for Going Outside | My Shetland

Happy Days | My Shetland

Sleep Well, Edna | My Shetland

Aprés Storm Amy | My Shetland

Shetland Wool Week 2025 Makers’ Market | My Shetland

A day off from being me | My Shetland

My Nothing Day | My Shetland

Never Again! | My Shetland

Life is a…… | My Shetland

A Wool Week Visitor | My Shetland

Around and About | My Shetland

Hell Finally Froze Over | My Shetland

Not My Day | My Shetland

The Shock of My Life | My Shetland

Saying No! | My Shetland

Friends Fast Asleep | My Shetland

A Little Bit of Activity | My Shetland

My Busy Day | My Shetland

Life in General | My Shetland

Sheds | My Shetland

The Final Rush | My Shetland

Interesting Day | My Shetland

Autumn Sunshine | My Shetland

To Scalloway/Lerwick | My Shetland

All Grown Up | My Shetland

The Dogs | My Shetland

Not Feeling Very Well | My Shetland

Autumn Flush Begins | My Shetland

A Difficult Morning | My Shetland

Sheep and Shetland ponies | My Shetland

Annoying Visitor | My Shetland

Your name’s not down, you’re not coming in! | My Shetland

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Autumnal Thoughts | My Shetland

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