Tag: life on the croft
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Fencing. June started with a power cut (affecting most of the Western Isles this time) and so I thought it would be a useful time to sit down with a wee dram, put on some Fleetwood Mac, and write this months croft update. That was a month ago. And I’m not quite sure where June…
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Building Bridges With little activity on the croft this month I had to take a look back at the last blog post to remind myself just how much has actually happened so far 2026! May has been decidedly cool and somewhat grey. A month of nothingness really, in terms of both the weather and progress…
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Nobody’s Fool With April showers appearing through March, and a return to frosty and colder temperatures marking the start of April, the seasons have certainly tricked us and the bees here at the croft. Thankfully a warmer dry spell soon followed and April 19th has been marked by me and the bees as the official…
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Spring Forward As the clocks moved forwards an hour for whatever made-up reason, and the days begin to become longer than the nights, March seems to have taken a step backwards. March was the opposite of February as the island was hit by a string of windy and wet weather fronts. Warmer than the mainland,…
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Boxes. Now that January is February things seem to be moving at pace here on Croft 5, interrupted by a special delivery. My belongings have arrived from the mainland! A shipping container full of stuff that I had done without, memories trapped in a box of tremendous size, for almost a year. Some things I…