It's hard to believe that we've never in 12 years of smallholding made our own sausages. You need a certain amount of equipment for ...

Someone noticed that alongside the two boxes which came back from the abattoir were two sheep skins. It is fairly easy to get the sheepskins...

Warning, this blog post does contain an account of sending sheep off to the abattoir. I don't go into any shocking detail, but if you th...

Our Shetland sheep have had a rest from breeding this year. We missed lambing, but it made for a much less stressful Easter period. We thoug...

It was at the beginning of the last decade that we took the plunge and bought our smallholding in The Fens. A lot of water has gone under th...

The first swallow soaks up the early morning sun There is excited chattering above the smallholding once more. Yay! The swallows have ...

Before I get onto sheepy things, I did say I would make more effort ot be aware of Awareness Weeks. This week is National Obesity Awareness ...

Tuesday 4th December 2018 Far-reaching calls through the frosty air The year marches on. In general it has been mild, but today saw qui...

Autumn medlars Sunday 11th November 2018 One of last year's Shetland ewes went on her final journey today. Next time we see her she...

I love keeping native breed sheep. They are so much more suitable to my style of smallholding than any of the larger breeds. My chosen varie...

When it was looking like it would never rain again, I started to think about how I could supplement the livestock's increasingly meagre ...