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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05.09.2025

Sheeps | My Shetland

Do you know it’s been just over one year since Dahlia and Gussie came into my life? And I’m very pleased they are here. Both have taken easily to their new life here. Gussie is a big b…

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04.09.2025

Northern Lights Autumn 2025 | My Shetland

Last night I looked out of the bathroom window (after my nightly shower) and saw the faint glow of the Northern Lights or the Merrie Dancers, as they are called here. But as they didn’t look …

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03.09.2025

Shetland Museum | My Shetland

Once every few years I go to the Shetland Museum in Lerwick. It is an excellent place to a) show visitors the history of Shetland and b) spend a few hours wandering around looking at the exhibits.…

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02.09.2025

Hillswick Wildlife Sanctuary | My Shetland

Yesterday we drove to the north part of our main island to show our visitor the sights. On our way back, we dropped in to Hillswick Wildlife Sanctuary as I had been told earlier they had two seals …

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02.09.2025

Still Got It! | My Shetland

On the dog-walk, I could see the horses and ponies in the distance so I went over to talk to them hoping I could get some nice photos. Vitamin strolled towards me. I have no idea why. I wasn’…

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02.09.2025

The Sunny Westside | My Shetland

The westside of the main island is sometimes referred to as “the sunny Westside”, obviously said smugly by those who live there. As we have a visitor, we are showing him the island &#82…

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02.09.2025

Followed around | My Shetland

I took this photo last night when I was putting the hens/ducks to bed and making sure everyone had everything they needed. Tis Maggie. Pretty lady. Anyway, this morning doing my daily chores, I h…

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02.09.2025

A Lovely Day Out | My Shetland

Our morning was spent clearing out the sheep shed getting it ready for winter. Like I said yesterday, hard work in the morning and then fun in the afternoon. And the results are glorious. Just th…

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28.08.2025

Farrier Visit | My Shetland

Today was Stephen, our farrier’s day to visit to check and trim the horses and ponies’ hooves. Earlier, I got everyone into a paddock so they were easy to get to and work with. I don&#…

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27.08.2025

Filling my Field | My Shetland

Everyone was fed and possibly in their correct(ish) fields and off I went to Lerwick. There was a big boat in – AIDAsol, bringing 2,500 passengers to Lerwick. The majority of whom were wander…

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26.08.2025

Little Friends | My Shetland

My little starling friend is still around. I am pretty sure it is the food she wants, not me. Particularly the sheep food. That’s her favourite. She usually appears when I feed Gussie and …

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25.08.2025

My Day of Worry | My Shetland

It’s been a grotty day for poor little Pepper. Today was the day she went to the vets for light sedation and an -xray of her poorly front leg (which is mostly absolutely fine these days). We …

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25.08.2025

Brushing for Visitors | My Shetland

A morning in my shed working hard trying not to stab this huge bottom! And then in the afternoon, I brushed everyone as visitors from a cruise ship were coming to see us. Once I was finished brushi…

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25.08.2025

The Smell! | My Shetland

Currently, I am feeling very sick sitting here surrounded by a scented oil diffuser on full blast, covered in perfume trying to get over Ted’s latest behaviour. He found a bad egg somewhere i…

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25.08.2025

A Day in Town | My Shetland

I spent my day in town as I had a dentist’s appointment mid-morning and other stuff to do as well. I felt sort of sad leaving everyone behind, namely Pepper, but, apart from the dentist, I wa…

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25.08.2025

Lost Lambie | My Shetland

When I was doing the sheep count, I lost Lambie. He had snuck out of his field, going under at least two fences, to spend time by himself. I think it was the flies and midges. It has been very st…

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25.08.2025

Meeting the Rest of the Family | My Shetland

I gave Family Duck a new “paddling pool” – ok, it’s a washing-up bowl but I thought it might be a good introduction to water for the little ones. I put strategically placed…

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25.08.2025

Cupboard Love | My Shetland

The ducklings are almost all grown up now. They are still very sweet and not afraid of me at all, though they are not keen on being picked up and cuddled (their little legs go ten to a dozen and t…

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25.08.2025

Nice Pics | My Shetland

I was washing out a field water bucket and, as it takes ages to refill with clean water, I thought I would try and take a nice photo of each of the Icelandic horses. So here is Kolka, looking very …

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25.08.2025

Last Night and Today | My Shetland

A few photos from last night and today. Ever feel you are being watched…… like, all the time? Dear old Bibble still maintaining his Bibbleness. A job is a job. Someone has to be Bibbl…

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25.08.2025

Hassle | My Shetland

I wanted a quiet morning working in my shed typing out a journal for a friend. Well, that was the plan anyway. And then Monster arrived, whined and scratched at the door to be let in so, as my des…

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12.08.2025

Guilty | My Shetland

There is a special place waiting for me in Hell today. Last night I forgot to open the gate and the Shetland ponies spent all night in their wee paddock with no food. Just water and shelter. I had…

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11.08.2025

Bloody Waffle! | My Shetland

Thank you for your kind words yesterday. I think I am back on track now. Today OH pointed out that there was a Red Admiral butterfly outside the kitchen window. I can probably count on one hand ju…

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10.08.2025

Dammit | My Shetland

I’m leaving this here as I have run out of things to say today. Everyone is going along ok except for Pepper who went off her front leg last night, the same day I had cancelled her x-ray appo…

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09.08.2025

Rain and then more rain | My Shetland

It was persisting with rain this morning and I couldn’t find anyone to give them their breakfast. I fed who was already around. Later I went back out to find Dahlia and Gussie behind a wall,…

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08.08.2025

Turn up the volume | My Shetland

There is something very satisfying about listening to Shetland ponies eat celery leaves – not dissimilar to ducks running over wet concrete in terms of sound fulfilment. The opposite of this…

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08.08.2025

Hopping Again | My Shetland

Yesterday Pepper was fine. She had four legs that all worked relatively fine (though there is still a smidge of a hint of her old limping injury – nothing I can put my finger on, but she&#82…

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08.08.2025

First Foray | My Shetland

This was taken from last night. Lovely colours and the sunset was pretty too. This morning, however, was a different matter. I had decided that mother duck and her babies could now go outside of th…

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08.08.2025

Silver Update | My Shetland

This was Silver earlier this year in May. The visiting vets from south diagnosed a sarcoid. Luckily, a kind reader sent me half a tube of Sarclay and I decided to start by treating Silver’s …

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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

A Windy Day | My Shetland

Autumnal Thoughts | My Shetland

My To-Do Winter List | My Shetland

Sheeps | My Shetland

Northern Lights Autumn 2025 | My Shetland

Shetland Museum | My Shetland

Hillswick Wildlife Sanctuary | My Shetland

Still Got It! | My Shetland

The Sunny Westside | My Shetland

Followed around | My Shetland

A Lovely Day Out | My Shetland

Farrier Visit | My Shetland

Filling my Field | My Shetland

Little Friends | My Shetland

My Day of Worry | My Shetland

Brushing for Visitors | My Shetland

The Smell! | My Shetland

A Day in Town | My Shetland

Lost Lambie | My Shetland

Meeting the Rest of the Family | My Shetland

Cupboard Love | My Shetland

Nice Pics | My Shetland

Last Night and Today | My Shetland

Hassle | My Shetland

Guilty | My Shetland

Bloody Waffle! | My Shetland

Dammit | My Shetland

Rain and then more rain | My Shetland

Turn up the volume | My Shetland

Hopping Again | My Shetland

First Foray | My Shetland

Silver Update | My Shetland

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