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Mrs Woolsack's Blog: Season of mists, mellow fruitfulness and unsolicited calls
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Wednesday, 17 September 2014. Season of mists, mellow fruitfulness and unsolicited calls. First the mellow fruitfulness - we seem to have gone from summer to autumn overnight. One of the joys of moving to Orkney has been a lack of unsolicited phone calls. In Newcastle, despite being registered with TPS. Anyway, having pressed option 5 yesterday to get through to a human so that I could tell them we were registered with TPS and should be removed from their mailing list immediately, today it was gloves off...
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Mrs Woolsack's Blog: Looking Forward - changes to the Woolsack website
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Monday, 19 January 2015. Looking Forward - changes to the Woolsack website. I can now sit at the laptop without 'that list' looming over me. When people contact me about their British wool products then they get onto the website much quicker - I'm getting into a good routine now of a weekly session of updating, which gives a good balance between speed of responding to email requests and the most efficient use of my time. There are also a couple of new pages - the Events page. British wool product. Th...
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Mrs Woolsack's Blog: A Rare Moment With A Rare Sheep - The Birth of Twin Lambs
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Saturday, 16 May 2015. A Rare Moment With A Rare Sheep - The Birth of Twin Lambs. Today we witnessed something rather special. One of our Boreray ewes gave birth to twins and we were able to watch it from a distance. Zelda was born in 2011 and this was her 3rd lambing. I think she has only given birth to singletons before, but she seemed fully in control of the situation. You can just see the bag of fluid under her tail above. Bag has burst and membranes visible. A minute or so of pushing and the lamb ca...
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Mrs Woolsack's Blog: January 2015
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Monday, 19 January 2015. Looking Forward - changes to the Woolsack website. I can now sit at the laptop without 'that list' looming over me. When people contact me about their British wool products then they get onto the website much quicker - I'm getting into a good routine now of a weekly session of updating, which gives a good balance between speed of responding to email requests and the most efficient use of my time. There are also a couple of new pages - the Events page. British wool product. Th...
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Mrs Woolsack's Blog: Looking Back
http://mrswoolsack.blogspot.com/2014/12/looking-back.html
Wednesday, 31 December 2014. 2014 has been a year of learning and experiences, but one where time became most valued. We've had births and we've had death. I'm sure someone has eloquently written a quote about the times when you have most going on to blog about, are the times when you have least time to do it. But I'm sure you get the picture. However I've no regrets, and despite the considerable physical challenges and having to learn so much ( not least farm paperwork! Orkney is a pretty magical place&...
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Mrs Woolsack's Blog: December 2014
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Wednesday, 31 December 2014. 2014 has been a year of learning and experiences, but one where time became most valued. We've had births and we've had death. I'm sure someone has eloquently written a quote about the times when you have most going on to blog about, are the times when you have least time to do it. But I'm sure you get the picture. However I've no regrets, and despite the considerable physical challenges and having to learn so much ( not least farm paperwork! Orkney is a pretty magical place&...
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Mrs Woolsack's Blog: September 2014
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Wednesday, 17 September 2014. Season of mists, mellow fruitfulness and unsolicited calls. First the mellow fruitfulness - we seem to have gone from summer to autumn overnight. One of the joys of moving to Orkney has been a lack of unsolicited phone calls. In Newcastle, despite being registered with TPS. Anyway, having pressed option 5 yesterday to get through to a human so that I could tell them we were registered with TPS and should be removed from their mailing list immediately, today it was gloves off...
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Mrs Woolsack's Blog: May 2015
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Saturday, 16 May 2015. A Rare Moment With A Rare Sheep - The Birth of Twin Lambs. Today we witnessed something rather special. One of our Boreray ewes gave birth to twins and we were able to watch it from a distance. Zelda was born in 2011 and this was her 3rd lambing. I think she has only given birth to singletons before, but she seemed fully in control of the situation. You can just see the bag of fluid under her tail above. Bag has burst and membranes visible. A minute or so of pushing and the lamb ca...
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Mrs Woolsack's Blog: August 2014
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Sunday, 31 August 2014. The final day of August gave us the glory that is Orkney in sunshine with light wind - plus a smattering of midges, but it's a small price to pay for days like this. I thought I'd do a photo-census of the 'beasties' as we move from summer to autumn. The nights are noticeably drawing in now; it's not yet 9pm but I'd need a torch if I went out now. This is the oldest group above - some of these boys will soon be moving to enjoy many months on the moor. The black chicks are from our ...