cybercrofter

Life on a coastal croft in the northwest Highlands of Scotland.

Tuesday, 25 March 2008

Last trip in Ripples

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The wee boat's gunwhales are disintegrating, she has a hole in the thwart, and her benches are rotten. Ripples, as we call her, has just...
Monday, 17 March 2008

Seaweed

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Each day for the past week I have been gathering seaweed from the shore of the loch. I have a big back basket that I made about 8 or 9 years...
Monday, 10 March 2008

Beached

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The pontoons at the harbour are being extended so the big boat, Vigilance, which normally spends the whole winter safely tied up, has spent ...
Sunday, 17 February 2008

Hibernation almost over

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The normal signal here for end-of-hibernation is the first primrose. The diary over the past eight years shows this to be normally early-to-...
Friday, 30 November 2007

Poems, letters and birds

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I return from cyber silence with a burst of good news. First, what could be better than having a poem in the Scottish Poetry Library's c...
Sunday, 14 October 2007

Long house

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Having given up on buying the croft house, I am pleased to be able to report that there has recently been progress on the house site - the ...
Tuesday, 9 October 2007

Stags

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There are red stags roaring for sex out there. All pumped up with testosterone, trying to gather a harem of hinds and prepared to fight off ...
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cybercrofter
Assynt, Highlands of Scotland, United Kingdom
Mandy Haggith is a poet, author and activist, who lives on an Assynt croft. Off-grid, away from the mainstream, but still plugged in via the phone line. Looking into the woods, out to sea and askance at consumerist society.
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