Blog Entries from Craigard Croft
Blogs (web logs) and blogspots provide a unique insight into Highland life and nature in Lochaber and The West Highlands.
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Last Update: Friday, October 4, 2019 - 18:25
In February I wrote about the now annual dinner of our old guys expedition group, "Crispy Grey Squirrel at the Roadkill Cafe". The squirrels I had in the freezer have gone along with the...
Vive Maurice!In France's Ile-d'Oleron a tribunal and a judge have decided that Maurice the cockerel can continue to sing.Maurice has become a symbol of the resistance of country people to...
Last week 84 % of this blog's readers lived in the USA, I know that thanks to Google, but I don't know why? you are obviously intelligent and discerning people so....I thought that you might...
"Bullshit" and it's synonym "bollocks" are common English expletives regularly used in response to nonsensical or misleading statements which have no concern for reality or the truth. Next week...
Somewhere near you?Sixty five years ago I had my first school chemistry lesson with, "Doggy Collins" a scary old Welshman. I clearly remember two topics that are relevant today, the gases...
At the end of February the UK experienced it's hottest ever winter day. On the same day there was a debate in Parliament on the climate change emergency.I counted 35 of our 650 MPs in the...
Colourful pre-industrial diversity surrounded by deep green desertIndustrialised agriculture in the UK began after WW2, until then we had traditional low input, low output farming, a time when...
The goats don't seem to mind the squatters My brown egg laying hybrid hens lay an egg a day at the moment, there's over 14 hrs of daylight and it's warmer. So each day they go looking for a nest...
Day 2 of sitting on the nest and not moving.... definitely broody!It's the end of May....... the start of the "broody" season.... Hens now want to sit on a clutch of eggs and hatch them....
Humans domesticated by goats 11,000 years agoEstimates vary but it seems that humans were first domesticated by goats between eight thousand and eleven thousand year ago in the mountains of Iran....
