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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