It was a lovely day. Blue sky and the sun shining. I needed to go to town for an appointment anyway but I also did some messages first. I filled up my field at Jamieson’s Knitwear, which was…

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08.05.2025

A Few Pics | My Shetland

A few piccies from today. Iacs and Haakon in need of a good brush. They are revolting. More proof brushing is required (I am almost ashamed) but one word. Eurovision. So I am holding out until the…

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07.05.2025

All in a Morning | My Shetland

Food buckets for all, wherever they are. There is a lot of lugging, I can tell you. I find everyone a quiet spot to eat – so important and I can relate to that. And then, after my well-earned…

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06.05.2025

Planting today | My Shetland

This morning I was planting squashes, pumpkins and courgettes at Turriefield. It is almost the end of the planting now which is sad for me, as I really enjoy it. And hundreds of little pots of pot…

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05.05.2025

A Little Bit More | My Shetland

I am busy trying to get the weight back on the old horses and ponies and it is harder than I thought but I am hoping the spring grass will kick in and start doing its job soon. The daily breakfas…

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04.05.2025

Honestly, These Two! | My Shetland

It was not the best morning today. Windy and rainy and very cold. I couldn’t find the little ones anywhere until I looked in the containers. Everyone was sheltering in there. So, feeling ge…

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03.05.2025

Celery Time | My Shetland

I was sent home yesterday from Turriefield (the veg co-operative scheme place where I volunteer) with a large sack of celery leaves/tops and stalks for the ponies. A perk of my “job”. A…

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02.05.2025

Worried About Ster | My Shetland

I’m still worried about ‘Ster. He is not himself. He’s finished his course of antibiotics and doesn’t smell of wee anymore, which is good. But his back end is hunched up a…

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01.05.2025

Class Clown | My Shetland

Everyone looks revolting these day. It’s that time of year when the horses and ponies are shedding their winter coats but I refuse to brush anyone because a) that’s too much like hard w…

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30.04.2025

What to do? | My Shetland

What to do with the Minions. Last night, they stayed on the track mostly because they refused to come in so I left them there and then spent the rest of the night worrying that they would probably…

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29.04.2025

Not Myself | My Shetland

I’m not feeling my best. I think I rather over-did it today. I had to go to town for an appointment and ended up doing a million other things too. So I came home knackered and with a monstro…

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28.04.2025

Worming | My Shetland

Yesterday the wormer arrived in the post. Today, I diligently wrote down on a sticky label all the horses and ponies’ weights from the list written by Monika when she weighed everyone. Then I…

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27.04.2025

Ster Update | My Shetland

I would be lying if I said ‘Ster was 100% better but today he did say he wanted to be with his flock, who had somehow magically managed to get through many electric fences to find the green g…

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26.04.2025

Feeling Sorry for Pepper | My Shetland

Pepper is not enjoying her house arrest one little bit and I feel so sorry for her. But it has done her leg a world of good as she is far less hoppity, and has almost forgotten to limp….. al…

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25.04.2025

Ten Today! | My Shetland

A certain flekkit sheep is ten years old today. Awww, Lambie. There have been times when I never thought we would see this day. But despite Lambie’s best efforts, here we are. And I almost w…

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24.04.2025

Edna and Madge’s Arrival | My Shetland

And this is how Edna and Madge arrived. January 2020 Every day, Floss and I drive over to Sandness. Recently we have been seeing a lone sheep talking to folk. So two days ago, on our way home, I s…

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23.04.2025

Ill | My Shetland

‘Ster is not well. He keeps himself to himself and is currently on a ten day course of antibiotics (intra-muscular which doesn’t bring out the best in any of us) for what we think is a…

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22.04.2025

The Next Chapter | My Shetland

So, where were we (apologies for the cliff-hanger)? Ah, yes. So Lambie and Bert were best friends and along came ‘Ster and war broke out resulting in Bert leaving to go and live in the hill…

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21.04.2025

And then there were three! | My Shetland

So, where did we get to? Oh, yes…. Lambert had just arrived and was now Lambie’s bestie. One little happy family. And then Lambster arrived in November. He was not in a good way and …

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20.04.2025

How Bert Arrived | My Shetland

This is a bit of a throw-back Saturday continuing the story of how I found my sheep, or more accurately, how they found me. So far we have Lambie who arrived, refused to eat, tried to die on numero…

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19.04.2025

The New Dining Area | My Shetland

In my waking moments last night, I tried to work out how I was going to manage to feed the five horses/ponies in their “new” field. This was a new scenario for all of us. So this morni…

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18.04.2025

More Weights | My Shetland

No one has been weighed for 6 weeks or so and I needed to know if my regimens are working. Monika from Sandness Equine Services duly came round with her horse scales and swiftly weighed everyone. T…

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17.04.2025

How Lambie Arrived | My Shetland

Lambie was born on April 25th, 2015 so it will be his birthday very soon. Hats ✔️ Cake ✔️ Presents ✔️ Twiglets ✔️ and a big bottle of gin for…

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16.04.2025

Water Day | My Shetland

The usual morning chores – the ponies let out for the day to eat non-existent grass, sheep fed, and ancient horses/ponies given their breakfast. Accompanied, as ever, by my little fat joker, …

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15.04.2025

Eye Problems | My Shetland

I went to town by myself after the morning chores for a much-needed eye appointment at our local opticians. I’ve been having a few problems with my eyes and was already worried. The results …

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14.04.2025

Pepper Watching | My Shetland

Yesterday, Mandy and I went into my shed to play our flute duets as per our usual Saturday afternoon routine. And Pepper came too, which is part of her routine as well. She doesn’t seem to m…

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13.04.2025

Rugby Match | My Shetland

Every morning I go out with buckets of food for the old horses and ponies. This is not as simple as it sounds as I have to carry four rather full buckets – one each for Kolka, Iacs and Haakon…

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12.04.2025

Tyres or Tires? | My Shetland

After I had sorted out all the animals, including Lambie who was determined to be in exactly the wrong place, I drove into town to find out if all the rims on the horse-van’s wheels were knac…

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11.04.2025

Wee Fatties | My Shetland

I walked the dogs today and went down to the Shetland ponies’ field to a) count fence posts as I am having wooden ones put in where I built the new track and b) see how everyone was doing. Th…

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10.04.2025

Annoying Me | My Shetland

After lunch, Monster followed me to my shed, which was unusual but as OH was away, I guess he was bored and had no one else to annoy. But annoy he did. Monster sat exactly where I wanted to work. …

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09.04.2025

Already Missing Flossie | My Shetland

Well, as I type this, that’s Flossie off on the plane going back to her home, job and life south. It was lovely to see her and she was a huge help, as ever. She gave my back had a well-earned…

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08.04.2025

Building Fences | My Shetland

I spent my morning building a new track extension to miss out all the depressing boggy bits that appeared last year. They really were very deep and Newt struggled to get across. I hated watching t…

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07.04.2025

Doing Well | My Shetland

I will probably regret writing this, but the Shetland ponies are doing very well on my strict regime of utter misery and bare nothingness resulting in total starvation. And they even enthusiastical…

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06.04.2025

Stranger Danger | My Shetland

The dog-walk has resumed as Ted’s paw has almost healed. We went around the fields dropping in on the horses and ponies too. This photo made me think of Father Ted – “These [he p…

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05.04.2025

Not To Plan | My Shetland

My day did not go to plan. Yes, it started well. Everyone in their place, eating their breakfast without a fight. Huzzah. And I was pleased for that, although Haakon disgraced himself when he bit F…

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04.04.2025

All Change | My Shetland

It was a lovely sunny morning and Flossie arrived home for a long weekend (lovely). So, of course, I immediately put her to work and we moved the three old Icelandic horses to the large back field,…

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03.04.2025

Suddenly Tired | My Shetland

I’ve not got much to say today. I am feeling suddenly very tired so I won’t go on and on. But here are some photos from my efforts at Turriefield. Everything (just about) is growing, w…

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02.04.2025

Free to Good/Bad Home | My Shetland

Last night was Tiddles’ first night outside for many, many months. As it was warm and calm, I thought I would change all the routines. The old ladies were outside too. Less work, I stupidl…

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01.04.2025

Muzzah’s Day | My Shetland

Muzzah’s Day (or even Mothering Sunday) was yesterday and last night, late to the party as ever, Lambie almost managed to acknowledge my existence, or possibly the biscuit tin’s existen…

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31.03.2025

Is this the start of Spring? | My Shetland

It was a beautiful Spring day. You could almost hear everyone breathe a huge sigh of relief while they watched the back of winter start to leave. Today, I have mostly been concentrating my efforts…

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A Bit of Shetland History | My Shetland

A Few Pics | My Shetland

All in a Morning | My Shetland

Planting today | My Shetland

A Little Bit More | My Shetland

Honestly, These Two! | My Shetland

Celery Time | My Shetland

Worried About Ster | My Shetland

Class Clown | My Shetland

What to do? | My Shetland

Not Myself | My Shetland

Worming | My Shetland

Ster Update | My Shetland

Feeling Sorry for Pepper | My Shetland

Ten Today! | My Shetland

Edna and Madge’s Arrival | My Shetland

Ill | My Shetland

The Next Chapter | My Shetland

And then there were three! | My Shetland

How Bert Arrived | My Shetland

The New Dining Area | My Shetland

More Weights | My Shetland

How Lambie Arrived | My Shetland

Water Day | My Shetland

Eye Problems | My Shetland

Pepper Watching | My Shetland

Rugby Match | My Shetland

Tyres or Tires? | My Shetland

Wee Fatties | My Shetland

Annoying Me | My Shetland

Already Missing Flossie | My Shetland

Building Fences | My Shetland

Doing Well | My Shetland

Stranger Danger | My Shetland

Not To Plan | My Shetland

All Change | My Shetland

Suddenly Tired | My Shetland

Free to Good/Bad Home | My Shetland

Muzzah’s Day | My Shetland

Is this the start of Spring? | My Shetland

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