Primroses Are Here! Spring is almost here…..Our “wall of primroses” is beginning to appear on both sides of the burn (stream) that runs through the fields.  The primroses are a most welcome sight and…

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Spring is finally coming. The wild primroses have arrived.

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Fivla, Shetland pony, in her rug

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Rugs on for tomorrow will be shitty weather.

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Everyone Bare Nekkid It seems odd that not 36 hours ago it was blowing a hoolie and snowing but now everyone’s rugs are off and they’re all bare nekkid. The nicest bit of taking rugs off is seeing just how …

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Rugs came off today.

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Carrots and Celery It was a long morning at Turriefield, packing vegetables.  I came home and went straight to bed for a few hours and was joined by Pepper  who was feeling very poorly – not eating again.  My b…

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Getting ready for Storm Dave - by giving the Shetland Ponies celery and carrots!

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A Day Between Weathers Today has been a day between weathers or “atween wadder”, as they say in Shetland dialect – calm, warmer and even blue sky.  It was very spring-like but of course we will all be thrown back i…

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A nice calm day - makes a change. Still failing on the minimalist lifestyle front but did some carrot distribution.

#carrots #ShetlandIslands #shetland #familythings #shetlandponies #familyjewels #minimalist

Rugs Back On Again Chaps! The horses and ponies managed a few days without their rugs but next week’s weather forecast is looking horrendous and it looks like the snow will return. I am not happy but at least I have F…

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Bad weather forecast. Rugs back on.

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New Fencing I would’ve loved to have stayed in bed today but I couldn’t.  Things to do, people to see…… And it was also a beautiful day, which helped hugely too. Because I knew the weat…

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Bring it on. This is war! (electric fence not global)

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Carrot Justice I’m not very good at injustice and Waffle not having his carrot yesterday was weighing heavily on me all night. I barely slept a wink for the worry. So this morning after breakfast, I popped …

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Waffle got his fair share.

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Carrots for all, except Waffle.

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A Good Day Huzzah – we have flowers in the garden. And things are beginning to think about growing. It was such a lovely day today.  The sun shone in the clear blue skies. The same crocuses, after just …

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The sun is out, the sky is blue....

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Holding The Fort The fort is being well and truly held by Flossie.  She is doing admirable work looking after us all, I know, and it’s not easy. Today Flossie came in from feeding everyone saying Tiddles wasn…

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Floss is doing a wonderful job.

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My Obsession As some of you may already know, I like to obsess. My current obsession is rugs.  Today we swapped all the Shetland ponies’ (Vitamin, Fivla and Tiddles) rugs for dry rugs and I thought to mys…

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What to do? Any suggestions?

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The Best Rugs Not much has happened today, which as you know, is how I and my back like it.  No drama, no fuss. Everyone behaved at breakfast and that always makes life simple.  Afterwards, I spent my morning on…

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You get what you pay for (horse rugs, that is).

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Standing in my horse stall #promosky #photography #animal #shetlandponies #pony #FarmLife #Horses #Horse

Ice and Ponies Today we have ice. And I made a very short Mindfulness film complete with music.  All 30 seconds!  Enjoy and meditate, but be quick! Since seeing the soggy little Shetland ponies in their shed yest…

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Lots of ice today and the Shetland ponies are floofy.

#myshetland #ice #shetlandponies #shetland #ShetlandIslands #mindfulness #fluffy

A Little Known Fact Now here’s a little known fact for you…… If you open up the little shed in the paddock leading to the big hill field, it fits five Shetland ponies perfectly adequately. I did not …

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Apparently the ponies can all squish into the wee shed.

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A Certain Idiot A certain idiot has successfully managed to get one or even two front legs stuck in the electric fence (not on) three mornings’ in a row when outside in the field (one day off for snow). Ever…

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I'm not naming names but it begins with I and ends in ACS and stands for I Am Completely Stupid.

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Snow Gone Today The snow has now just about gone from our fields, and so has the 4 hourly waitress service, much to the horror of everyone when we threw them back out into their fields this morning. We put the old…

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The snow has just about gone now. Huzzah! (hate the ruddy stuff).

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Duvet Day Inside Today, weather-wise, has been unspeakable – sleet, a freezing gale force wind, and we are all very miserable and bored of this.  Apparently Shetland has been stuck in a bad weather system for…

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Weather filthy so got everyone inside to rest.

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Haynets at Night Really crap photos today and I’m sorry – it has barely been light all day and the weather has not improved (still freezing wind and rain). Daisy has now seen the set up and agrees with …

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Poor quality photos - apologies (winter light). We decided to give the Shetland ponies haynets at night. Much enthusiasm.

#feeding #winter #shetlandponies #shetland

Always Fair I left my pit to pop down to see how the little boys were fairing in this cold weather (wind chill today of at last -5℃).  It was the sort of freezing cold wind that makes your eyebrows hurt. Anywa…

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Treats for the Shetland ponies.

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Rugs and Moving Fields These days, it’s a toss-up as to what and how much I can do. But, as ever with my back, every day is a new oneand the pain is never the same (when it stays the same, I begin to panic). When I wake …

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I put thicker rugs on and moved the ponies.

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Fresh Grazing Everyone is fed up.  I could tell.  The fields that had grass are now almost bare.  While that’s fine for younger and fatter Shetland ponies, it is not ok (apparently) for the others. So, I r…

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Opened up new grazing for the older horses and ponies. They are very happy.

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Blizzard After a good breakfast, Floss and I put everyone outside without their rugs because they are all:- very floofy and fat they can move around better, roll and play and it wasn’t that bad, weath…

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The weather has deteriorated. Everyone raced inside early.

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All Together Happy smiley faces greeted us this morning, so we gave them their breakfast, put rugs on those that needed them, and threw everyone out together into a nearby field.  It would be easy to get them b…

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Put all the horses and ponies in together for the day. They seemed to get along just fine.

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All Inside My morning was spent getting ready for the mother of all weathers.  According to the weather forecast, the temperature is going to dip hugely so I filled every container I could find with water for…

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Got everything ready for the next few days' weather onslaught. Wish us luck!

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Winter Brushing We have a northerly storm on its way, along with the possibility of snow. It will probably arrive Wednesday and rev up for Thursday, dying out by Friday and then snowing from henceforth. So, as I h…

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Everyone brushed.

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Lots of Help I gave Floss my phone this morning to take photos for me in my usual routine. So, I rustled up the troops and, clutching my bowl of sheep food, we all walked around to their shed for breakfast. The…

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It is so nice to have help in the mornings with all the animals. Done in half the time.

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Veg Peelings for Ponies I realise I didn’t feature Ted in the Christmas photos yesterday so here he is today, just after his rather soggy-doggy walk. Ted’s eyes are always grot because he has KCS ( Keratoconju…

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Veg soup making so gave the ponies the peelings.

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Where Do They Go? Most mornings (except when the weather is beastly), I lead the sheep out to their field of choice. Currently, they all want to go into the same field as the Shetland ponies, which is absolutely fin…

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Where do the sheep spend their day?

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