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crofting life: May 2007
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A small window into the lives of crofters in the Scottish Highlands, Not a day to day, blow by blow account, just something to while away the hours when you have nothing better to do! Saturday, 19 May 2007. A King is Born. Well Miran finally did it, she had her lamb, a little boy the first boy lamb to be born on Creag Mhor Croft. As you know we are commercial cattle breeders normally, but we took a liking to sheep when I had a couple of pet lambs to rear. So we got the nursing pen ready and put her in.
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crofting life: January 2007
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A small window into the lives of crofters in the Scottish Highlands, Not a day to day, blow by blow account, just something to while away the hours when you have nothing better to do! Saturday, 27 January 2007. View from my back door. A view of Creag Mhor in the Winter. Wednesday, 24 January 2007. Thank you for visiting my Blog please leave any comments if you wish, any questions you would like to ask I will try to answer. It is hard going on the Cattle when it is like this. Cows also have their own pers...
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crofting life: September 2007
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A small window into the lives of crofters in the Scottish Highlands, Not a day to day, blow by blow account, just something to while away the hours when you have nothing better to do! Monday, 17 September 2007. The Highlands and the Islands. Lets start with the. We have been so busy this past couple of months time seems to have slipped past us so quickly. Our fields are holding water which is making it impossible to even put round bales out with the tractor. Then again they cannot fill the wagons to much...
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crofting life: March 2007
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A small window into the lives of crofters in the Scottish Highlands, Not a day to day, blow by blow account, just something to while away the hours when you have nothing better to do! Thursday, 22 March 2007. This is my Thugs, they are pure breed Hill Cheviot's from Skye. They are in lamb and we are expecting them mid April. They were put to a 1000 guinea Tup in November last year. They are beautiful soft natured animals. I named them Miran, Sharon and Claire. But they are so comical I do not think I wou...
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crofting life: Starting all over again.
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A small window into the lives of crofters in the Scottish Highlands, Not a day to day, blow by blow account, just something to while away the hours when you have nothing better to do! Sunday, 27 June 2010. Starting all over again. Well we are flying through the year and as usual I am playing catch up. Nearly at the end of another month and already preparing for the Winter. It will help the grass along for the animals at least. We started cutting the peat the first week in May, we moved over to the front ...
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crofting life: Well it's that time of year again!!!
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A small window into the lives of crofters in the Scottish Highlands, Not a day to day, blow by blow account, just something to while away the hours when you have nothing better to do! Sunday, 3 April 2011. Well it's that time of year again! Well it's is that time of year again. Lambs have been popping out everywhere. We put Sandy the dad out a couple of weeks early this year to catch Myran the matriarch first,. We have had 4 sets of twins 6 boys and 2 girls, the rest have singles. They are all showing of...
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crofting life: Alive & Kicking
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A small window into the lives of crofters in the Scottish Highlands, Not a day to day, blow by blow account, just something to while away the hours when you have nothing better to do! Saturday, 22 January 2011. Well I did not realise it has been so long since I last posted anything on my blog! I had a computer problem for a while and with being busy all of the time it has made it a little difficult to juggle everything. I am still alive and kicking or as someone once said, I'm still above the ground.
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crofting life: July 2007
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A small window into the lives of crofters in the Scottish Highlands, Not a day to day, blow by blow account, just something to while away the hours when you have nothing better to do! Monday, 23 July 2007. The Wanderer being our Belgian Blue cross called Bella. She takes to wandering off like a nomad, not exactly part of the heard but always there or there abouts. We bought her about three years ago with a calf at foot, she is so placid and easy to handle you would think she had been here all of her life.
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crofting life: A first for Creag Mhor Croft
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A small window into the lives of crofters in the Scottish Highlands, Not a day to day, blow by blow account, just something to while away the hours when you have nothing better to do! Monday, 12 July 2010. A first for Creag Mhor Croft. I thought I would share something with you all. There is a first time for everything, after all the years of breeding cattle from father to son on Creag Mhor Croft never in the past has there ever been TWIN calves. That is until this week, two beautiful Limousin bullocks.
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crofting life: June 2007
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A small window into the lives of crofters in the Scottish Highlands, Not a day to day, blow by blow account, just something to while away the hours when you have nothing better to do! Monday, 18 June 2007. Road to the Isles Sheep Champion. Creag Mhor and Creag Mhor himself. Meet the new overall Sheep champion of the Road to the Isles Agricultural Show. This was her second outing, her Tup. Was second in his class and they make a perfect unit. She was breed on Skye, by Mr and Mrs C Carter of Sarsar. We sai...
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