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Eleven

July 10, 2018by Claire Leave a comment

I noticed last week that Eleven had a lump on her neck. I watched it for a day, it grew. It felt like an abscess so I called our wonderful […]

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Animals, shepherding

Dave

June 29, 2018by Claire Leave a comment

This is Dave He is an Anglo-nubian buck who has already fathered a few kids. He is hopefully going to be the baby-daddy for next year’s kids and thus is […]

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Animals, shepherding

Simmering Sea-monsters

June 6, 2018by Claire 2 Comments

On Sunday afternoon, after a hugely busy nine days on the campsite cooking pizzas, running the Blue Rabbit Cafe and doing egg collection Alfie and I went for a swim. […]

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Dogs, Food Truck, shepherding, wild swimming

Special K

May 19, 2018by Claire 3 Comments

We found a lump on Special K’s neck last week. It was huge – the size of my fist. I suspected it was an abscess. I phoned the vet and […]

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Animals, shepherding

Best Bacon Ever

May 13, 2018by Claire 9 Comments

Yesterday i the cafe I started selling bacon, sausage and egg buns made from our own free range eggs and our free-range, rare breed, super happy pigs. The first person […]

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Food Truck, shepherding

Fraggle

April 11, 2018by Claire Leave a comment

Fraggle, the little orphan lamb from last year who was accidentally tupped by Kenny the jumping ram, had her baby on Monday evening. It was not an easy labour. I […]

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shepherding

Being Born

April 8, 2018by Claire Leave a comment

Being born is quite tiring I imagine. Helping out with the being born bit is also tiring, especially if all the ewes decide that the time to give birth this […]

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shepherding

Nevruz 2018

April 7, 2018by Claire Leave a comment

A somewhat belated 2018 Nevruz celebration  – there has been a lot going on here and the blog has fallen behind – I will try and catch up although the […]

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Animals, Bees, Campsite, Dogs, Food Truck, gardening, My other life, shepherding, wild swimming

Last Dance

March 17, 2018by Claire 18 Comments

Yesterday was a glorious day and the baby goats spent it outdoors playing on the climbing objects and dancing. This was good, because as fate would have it, it was […]

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Animals, shepherding

Good Friends Get It Sorted

March 13, 2018by Claire 4 Comments

I remembered two important things yesterday: dog metacam is good for inflammation and pain relief in goats, if you can’t get to a vet; positive encouragement from a friend can […]

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Animals, Food Truck, shepherding

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