All hands to the pump.

 

Jim gets roped in under the watchful eye of Spider the crofter cat extrodinaire.

Poor wee things.

 

Who said be careful what you wish for? (Jim why do you take photies of me when I'm dead on my feet?)

 

Well I didn't put a ram in & was only saying the other day that I felt broody for lambs. I like to watch them gamboling about & would get Jim to stop the car when we were out & about & I spied some new borns about.

Harry who has done loads of fencing for me phoned on Saturaday to ask how I was getting on lambing. I told him I hadn't this year.

Later on that day he arrived with a dozen orphans. Jim quickly had cobbled together a covered shelter in Caligula's pen. It's too many is a dozen skinny, Mother-less lambs to cope with, ach, but we hashed on as you do. We farmed one out to a local crofter who had a ewe whose lamb had died. He skinned the dead lamb & placed the jacket over the orphan & she sucessfully took it on - wonderful.

'N' - all the lambs have a letter marked on them - makes it easier to know who you've fed & identifies them - 'N' wasn't looking good & was just shivering & sounded chesty - so I brought him in & we got some anti-biotic & multi-vitimens in him. The cats were none too chuffed. 'N' seems much stronger. I had another problem with 'J' - she wouldn't suck at all & I was not really manging with her. I got a friend to take her & three others on board. I am so grateful as it was all a bit none stop. So I am left with seven orphans & that is ample.

A funny aside to all the sadness & hassle - later on saturday evening I looked in Caligula's house he shares with his girlie to lock them in (yes, he's still here) & there was 8 white, wooly legs visible & poor Mr & Mrs Caligula crouched amongst looking a little unsettled at this invasion of their home. We managed to fish the lambs out of the hen house & get them back in with their peers.

The Shore.

 

The Bottom Of The Croft.

 

The croft slopes down to the shore. We went down the other day just to sit & stare. Our cats sometimes come down too even though it's quite a trek for elderly toms.